“SE O CAMPO NÃO PLANTA, A CIDADE NÃO JANTA”

AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELEVANCE OF MST IN GUARANTEEING SDG 2 IN BRAZIL FROM THE 2020 RICE CRISIS

Abstract

The article aims to highlight the importance of social movements in regards to the realization of civil rights and social justice, focusing on the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST). The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), therefore, rely on the actions of these movements to guarantee that people’s demands are heard, partnering decision-makers or confronting them when their chosen path is not coherent to people’s interests. Hence, marxist theory will be a tool for analysing such movements. Also, news and data will be usedto point out the government’s responses to the rice price crisis. In this sense, this article seeks to call attention to the relevance of MST in guaranteeing the realization of SDG 2 to Brazilian people, especially in an adverse context of a crisis in the middle of a pandemic.