Public Talk at RLC Lund with Miguel Carter and Ana Terra


On April 8th 2016, Miguel Carter and Ana Terra presented the book Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil at the RLC Lund and further discussed the causes and consequences of Brazils agrarian structure and the connected Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST).

The Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (MST) is an organization that works in defense of Brazilian landless families. In 1991 the the organization and it’s members received the  Right Livelihood Award (RLA). Brazil has the most inequitable distribution of land ownership in the world, with a high infant mortality rate, millions of street children and situations akin to slavery in the countryside.