ABSTRACT
Sometime around 1985, a small group of squatters began to occupy and cultivate the forests on the outskirts of an old cacao plantation in southern Bahia, Brazil (see Figure 1, Settlement 6). Twelve years later, in 1997, these squatters resolved to invite leaders from the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST)1 into the settlement they
1Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra.
