Lula resumed the agrarian reform with a plan that prioritizes peasant women

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, announced an emergency plan to resume agrarian reform with the launch of a program to grant space for crops for 45,000 families, mostly led by women, and at the same time announced a series of new measures against femicide.

The announcement was made during the March of the Daisies, the largest peasant women's movement in Latin America, which gathered in Brasilia to celebrate the launch of the agrarian reform program.

"In these acts, the economic autonomy and productive inclusion of rural women converge. The resumption of agrarian reform, with special attention to families headed by women, with the development of productive farms for food and nutritional security," said Lula. in an act in Brasilia before tens of thousands of peasant women.

The March of the Daisies evokes Margarida Alves, a peasant union leader murdered at the door of her house in 1983, in the context of the agrarian conflict that has never ceased in the Brazilian countryside between landowners and family farm peasants.