Orientador: Eliana Bolorino Canteiro Martins / Banca: Raquel Santos Sant'Ana / Banca: Cristina Simões Bezerra / Banca: Janaina Francisca de Souza Campos Vinha / Banca: João Cleps Junior / Resumo: According to Barbosa (2012), Brazil has one of the biggest land concentration in the world. Only 0,8% of land owners have possession of 31,6% of arable lands. It is estimated that promoting a land reform, which would raise the decentralisation of land structure in Brazil, would directly benefit 2,5 million of landless families. Land reform, thus, as a public policy of development, together with either agricultural and social policies, could trigger a rural development process in Brazil, sustained not only by an agricultural development. On the other hand, it is known that the social, political, economical, therefore historical options made by the earlier Brazilian governments on land reform now lead to a "non-land reform", according to Oliveira (2011). Thereby, much more than a dispossession policy is expected for solving the social inequality that follows the rise of the country, with public policies that may contribute and enhance the sojourn of settled people in the rural settlements. In this thesis, we aim to question, discuss and think over the land reform ongoing in Uberaba, and if it can be whether characterized as a public policy of development or becomes an increasingly selective, focused and compensatory social policy. Therefore, a bibliographic, documental research was made, which enabled a theoretical practical essential improvement for the reflective process of the information obtained on field research and on participant observation. The following settled people... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abastract: According to Barbosa (2012), Brazil has one of the biggest land concentration in the world. Only 0,8% of land owners have possession of 31,6% of arable lands. It is estimated that promoting a land reform, which would raise the decentralisation of land structure in Brazil, would directly benefit 2,5 million of landless families. Land reform, thus, as a public policy of development, together with either agricultural and social policies, could trigger a rural development process in Brazil, sustained not only by an agricultural development. On the other hand, it is known that the social, political, economical, therefore historical options made by the earlier Brazilian governments on land reform now lead to a "non-land reform", according to Oliveira (2011). Thereby, much more than a dispossession policy is expected for solving the social inequality that follows the rise of the country, with public policies that may contribute and enhance the sojourn of settled people in the rural settlements. In this thesis, we aim to question, discuss and think over the land reform ongoing in Uberaba, and if it can be whether characterized as a public policy of development or becomes an increasingly selective, focused and compensatory social policy. Therefore, a bibliographic, documental research was made, which enabled a theoretical practical essential improvement for the reflective process of the information obtained on field research and on participant observation. The following settled people of land reform who live in the rural settlements were interviewed by semi-structured interviews: Political leadership, Uberaba's secretary of agriculture, livestock, fishing and apiculture and the state superintendent of Incra of Minas Gerais. The data analysis were based on qualitative methodology and the materialistic historical dialectic method of apprehension of reality enabled consecutive approaches to the unique... / Resumen: La concentración fundiaria en Brasil según Barbosa (2012) es una de las mayores del planeta. Apenas 0,8% de los propietarios rurales ocupan 31,6% de las tierras agricultables. Es estimado que la realización de la reforma agraria, promoviendo la desconcentración de la estructura fundiaria en Brasil, beneficiaría directamente 2,5 millones de familias sin tierra. En este contextos la reforma agraria, mientras política pública de desarrollo, junto a las políticas agrícolas y sociales podría desencadenar en nuestro territorio un proceso de desarrollo rural sostenido no apenas de desarrollo agrícola. Entretanto, sabemos que las opciones sociales, políticas, económicas, por lo tanto históricas que atraviese los gobiernos brasileños, en torno de la reforma agraria resultan en la actualidad en una "no reforma agraria", en las palabras de Oliveira (2011). Así, para que se pueda obstruir la desigualdad social engendrada en el país desde su constitución se presupone no solo una política de desapropiación, pero mucho más: políticas públicas que contribuyan y fortalezcan la permanencia de los asentados y asentadas en los asentamientos rurales de Brasil. En esta tesis visamos problematizar, discutir y reflectar si la reforma agraria en curso en Uberaba se caracteriza mientras la política pública de desarrollo o se torna cada vez más una política social selectiva, focalizada y compensatoria. De esta forma, realizamos una pesquisa bibliografía, documental que posibilitó profundización teórica practica esencial para el proceso reflexivo de las informaciones obtenidas en la pesquisa de campo y en la observación participante. Entrevistamos los asentados y las asentadas de la reforma agraria que residen en los asentamientos rurales en cuestión, Liderazgo político, el Secretario de Agricultura, Pecuaria, Pesca y Apicultura de Uberaba y el Superintendente Estadual do Incra de Minas Gerais... / Doutor