“…The concern with rural development and poverty reduction in the countryside has evolved over time, giving rise to different approaches. In the case of Brazil, for example, until the mid-1950s, the strategy adopted for rural areas was based on a policy of expanding the agricultural border in fertile lands, through an extensive production pattern and cheap labor, without paying closer attention to other dimensions of development (Santana et al, 2014), it was also expected | 277 that migration to the cities would be enough to absorb the surplus labor existing in the countryside. With the acceleration of the country's urbanization from the mid-1950s on, pressures on the development pattern of rural areas arose and two perspectives dominated the public debate: one that favored agrarian reform as the central strategy to expand production, and another that advocated for technological modernization, based on the Green Revolution framework (Buainain, 1999).…”