Actions of denunciation, occupations, and protests are being carried out in 13 states, in all major regions of the country.
This year's National Day of Struggle for Landless Women began on March 8 and will continue until next Thursday, March 12, with mobilizations in all regions of the country. With the motto: "People’s Agrarian Reform: confronting violence, occupying, and organizing!", peasant women joined urban women on International Women's Day, March 8, echoing the voice of the feminist struggle against patriarchy and demanding rights.
More than 11,000 Landless Women participated in the mobilizations during the first two days of the Day, in 13 states and 21 municipalities. In total, 24 actions were carried out, including 7 occupations of unproductive large estates, marches, spaces for debate and training, blockades, and acts demanding Agrarian Reform and an end to violence.
Ayala Ferreira, from the national coordination of the MST, states that "the campaign has expressed what organized women can be when confronting the crimes of large landholdings and also confronting this escalation of violence against women, legitimized largely by conservative discourse and the advance of the far right in our society."
The coordinator explains that, therefore, the mobilizations focus on confronting violence in the countryside, which is expressed as a concrete result in the existence of large landholdings themselves. The areas occupied by Landless Women are large estates where crimes have occurred, such as the practice of slave labor, land grabbing, or even crimes involving environmental devastation.
"So, at this very moment, we are in the process of occupying large estates, blocking highways, marching, engaging in dialogue and training with other comrades from other urban and rural movements, trying to express what the capacity to organize and resist of working-class women can be," summarizes the coordinator.
The Journey includes a series of mobilizations that will take place until March 12th. In light of this, the Landless Women invite all working women and society in general to participate in and follow the mobilization processes.
“We call upon society to join us, to reaffirm that the problem we face today, the deepening of inequalities, the reality of misery, hunger, and unemployment, can also be solved with the implementation of a broad and radical Agrarian Reform policy in our country. So, let us continue in the process of struggle and resistance towards the long-awaited society in which we all fit, women and men who are truly free and emancipated,” concludes Ayala.
Check out the mobilizations from the first two days of the Journey:
AMAZON
Tocantins
This Monday (March 9), around 800 Landless Women occupied the Santo Hilário Farm, in Araguatins (TO), the latifundium has a history marked by murder, violence and slave labor. The 2,462-hectare area had its land title canceled and became the property of the Federal Union, in 2020 for the purposes of Agrarian Reform.
The women from the Amazon region denounce that the farmer continues to act irregularly as the owner, in a blatant case of land grabbing. On the other hand, the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) failed to meet the deadline for inspecting the area, established in September 2025, in the place where 200 families of rural workers from the Movement should be settled. Since Sunday (8), the women from the Amazon region of the MST have been meeting in the municipality and carrying out training and solidarity processes for the families who have been fighting for People’s Agrarian Reform in the territory for about 20 years.
NORTHEAST
Piauí
This Monday (March 9), around 200 families occupied an unproductive area in the municipality of Palmeirais, Piauí, during the National Day of Struggle of Landless Women. The area of the Suzano company has been abandoned for about ten years and is the result of a failed project to implement a factory and the production of eucalyptus. The MST demands that the area be destined for Agrarian Reform purposes, in order to guarantee that the families camped on the site can live and live with dignity.
Alagoas
On the morning of this Monday (March 9), around 500 peasant women occupied the facilities of Mineração Vale Verde, in the municipality of Craíbas (AL). The mobilization is part of the National Day of Struggle of Landless Women and denounces the environmental and social damage caused by mineral exploitation in the Agreste region of the state. On Sunday (March 8), women from the countryside and the city took to the streets of Maceió in the Unified Act of the International Women's Day of Struggle, with the motto “For the lives of women! Against imperialism, for democracy, sovereignty and for the end of the 6×1 scale!”. The act showed the power of women's organization, bringing together social movements and people’s organizations, in which the Landless Women also made their presence felt in Praça 7 Coqueiros, in Ponta Verde, raising the banners of Popular Agrarian Reform, the production of healthy food and the defense of territories.
Since Saturday morning (March 7), the Landless Women in Alagoas have been mobilized for the actions of the Journey, where the preparation of around a thousand meals was organized, distributed to the community of Benedito Bentes, in Maceió (AL). The initiative is part of the actions of the MST's Solidarity Kitchen, taking food produced in settlements and encampments of the Agrarian Reform to the population in a situation of hunger, who need it most.
Sergipe
This Monday (March 9), 300 peasant women marched through the streets of Aracaju (SE), towards Incra, raising their flags and reaffirming the struggle for Popular Agrarian Reform. Organized and in motion, the women denounce the violence in the countryside, the slowness of the Agrarian Reform policy and remain on the front line of defending the land, the production of healthy food and a dignified life for the working people. At Incra, the mobilization continued with a hearing with the superintendency, in which the demands of the Landless women were presented, demanding concrete measures to advance Agrarian Reform in the state.
Pernambuco
On Sunday (8), another unproductive large estate was occupied with the protagonism of the Landless Women in the São Francisco Valley region, with around 800 families, the peasant women occupied the occupation of Fazenda Pontalino, Gleba Carranca, located in the district of Vermelhos, approximately 26 km from the municipality of Lagoa Grande.
The area has around 900 hectares and, for years, has not fulfilled its social function, a principle established in Brazilian legislation for the use of land. The occupation reaffirms the struggle of working families in the countryside for land, work and dignity, and for the implementation of Agrarian Reform.
Rio Grande do Norte
On the morning of this Monday (March 9), Landless women from Rio Grande do Norte held protests as part of the National Day of Struggle of Landless Women in two regions of the state. With actions on the BR-101, in Touros, the women denounced the advance of energy capital and the territorialization of companies, which threaten rural families, restricting land use and endangering territories and nature.
This Monday (March 9), protests also took place on the BR-405, in Chapada do Apodi, as part of the national Day of Struggle, in which women demanded compliance with the MST agenda with the State Government and denounced the impacts of mega-projects of wind energy, with harassment of families, unfair leases, environmental destruction and threats to the way of life of rural peoples.
Among the urgencies in the western region is the speed and completion of the expropriation of DIBA lands, where about 100 families are waiting for settlements in the area. And ten other camps, which also claim land for Agrarian Reform purposes, in the region that has been without any expropriation for 20 years.
Bahia
On the afternoon of this Monday (9), the Women's Plenary and Training with Men took place, bringing together landless women and men from the Edite Xavier, José Martí and Eunice Adriana settlements, in Araçoiaba (BA), to strengthen the debate on the role of collective struggle in building a more just society.
With the theme “People’s Agrarian Reform: confronting violence, occupying and organizing”, the meeting takes place as a space for reflection, exchange of experiences and strengthening the struggle of landless women, reaffirming the importance of popular organization to guarantee rights, dignity and justice in the countryside. On Sunday morning (March 8), the Landless Women in Bahia joined the traditional walk to the Barra lighthouse, in Salvador. Women alive, fighting and without fear, was the motto that marked the Act. For democracy with sovereignty for good living, for the end of femicide and the 6×1 scale.
Other street actions on March 8th brought together landless peasant women in the municipalities of Feira de Santana, Santo Sé and Barra Choça. Around 400 women were mobilized in the state during the first two days of the campaign.
CENTRAL-WEST
Goiás
Around 500 women from the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) of the Federal District and surrounding area occupied, in the early hours of this Monday (March 9), the bankrupt 8,000-hectare area of the Companhia Bioenergética Brasileira (CBB) plant, in the municipality of Vila Boa de Goiás (GO). The action is part of the National Day of Struggle of Landless Women and denounces labor and environmental crimes by the company, in addition to demanding that the federal government expropriate the area for Agrarian Reform.
SOUTHEAST
Minas Gerais
Around 700 women from the MST occupied the tracks of the Vitória-Minas Railway, in Tumiritinga (MG). The action is part of the National Struggle Day of Landless Women 2026 and denounces that, after ten years since the collapse of the Fundão dam, in the Rio Doce basin, impunity still prevails and thousands of families remain without reparation.
Espírito Santo
Around 300 landless families, mostly women, occupied Samarco lands in the municipality of Anchieta (ES) during the National Struggle Day of Landless Women, denouncing the ten years of impunity for the Mariana environmental crime and demanding the settlement of 1,500 families camped in the state.
São Paulo
During the early hours of this Monday (March 9), around 400 women from various regions of the state of São Paulo occupied the Santo Antônio farm, located in the municipality of Presidente Epitácio, Pontal do Paranapanema region, far west of the state. The action seeks to pressure the state government regarding the collection of land for Agrarian Reform and to resolve the situation of social vulnerability of landless families who, in some cases, have been waiting for more than 20 years in encampments. This is especially true for women, who, without prospects for improving their quality of life in cities due to a lack of public policies aimed at socioeconomic development, and coupled with rates of domestic violence, form one of the most socially vulnerable groups. They find in Popular Agrarian Reform a possibility to improve their quality of life.
The Santo Antônio farm, owned by Maria Alexandrina Pereira and Maria de Fátima Oliveira Pereira das Neves, has 1,675 hectares of vacant, public land, but the State has not yet made the political decision to collect it for Agrarian Reform purposes, as governed by Article 184 of the Federal Constitution, and it remains in the possession of large landowners for extensive livestock farming. However, still on the morning of this Monday (March 9), the Military Police of São Paulo went to the encampment on the Fazenda Santo Antônio farm, in Presidente Epitácio (SP) and in a truculent manner, with threats and the use of tear gas bombs, carried out the illegal eviction of the peasant women, mobilized on the latifundium.
On Sunday, March 8, around 70 Landless Women also occupied Avenida Paulista, in the capital of São Paulo, together with women from the city to denounce all forms of violence against women, demanding a dignified life, freedom and justice. During the event there were also declarations of internationalist solidarity with Palestinian women, who continue to face the violence of the Zionist State of Israel, and with the women, girls and children of Iran, victims of imperialist violence.
SOUTH
Rio Grande do Sul
Around 500 Landless Women occupied, this Monday (March 9), an area of 400 hectares of Fepagro in São Gabriel (RS). The mobilization demands the allocation of the area for settlements of camped families and the resettlement of those affected by the 2024 floods in the state. The area in São Gabriel is symbolic for the Movement, in addition to being the largest of Fepagro. The place became known for the 2003 march and the assassination of Elton Brum da Silva, a member of the MST (Landless Workers' Movement), which occurred on August 21, 2009, when the Military Brigade executed him with a 12-gauge shotgun blast to the back, in one of the most violent actions to reclaim possession of an unproductive large estate, the Southall Farm.
The municipality currently has ten settlements, bringing together more than 740 settled families. About 100 producers supply food to the Food Acquisition Program (PAA). Another 250 families are dedicated to the production of milk, grains such as beans, corn and rice, as well as honey and meat. In addition to production aimed at commercialization, all settled families cultivate food for subsistence on their plots. The settlements also participate in various fairs in the city, mostly organized by women, who also produce a variety of handicrafts.
Paraná
Around a thousand Landless Women marched through the streets of Rio Bonito do Iguaçu (PR), on the morning of this Monday (March 9). The march is part of the National Day of Struggles for International Women's Day and carries solidarity and denunciation. Solidarity with all families and communities affected by the climate catastrophe and denunciation of gender violence, the destruction of nature and the environmental crisis.
With banners and drumming, the march ended at the site of the former CERBI College, almost completely destroyed by the tornado. The seminar "The impacts of the environmental crisis, women and agroecology" was also held there, with the participation of women, representatives of social movements, public institutions and experts to discuss the effects of the climate crisis on the lives of rural women.
