Land Reform and COP 30 are themes of Journey at Uepa
The event takes place at the Center for Social Sciences and Education, with debates, exhibitions, and the traditional Land Reform Fair, with products directly from the producer to the consumer.
Tomorrow, 29, and on Friday, 30, the State University of Pará (Uepa) will host the VIII University Journey in Defense of Land Reform (Jura 2025), at the Center for Social Sciences and Education (CCSE), in the Telégrafo neighborhood, in Belém. The event, organized by research groups from the institution in partnership with the Landless Workers Movement (MST) and other educational institutions, proposes a broad reflection on the theme "Defending life: combating the agro-hydro-mineral-business in the Amazon /COP30: environment and climate issues."
The journey features an intense program, from 8 am to 7:30 pm, with formative, cultural, and mobilization activities, such as round tables, land reform fair, documentary screenings, photographic exhibitions, conversation circles, and artistic attractions. The goal is to articulate academic and popular knowledge around themes that directly affect the peoples of the Amazon and are at the center of contemporary environmental and social debates.
The holding of COP30 in Belém in November this year makes the debate about the impacts of the current development model in the region even more urgent. While Pará prepares to host an international climate conference, proposals that relax environmental licensing and threaten traditional territories are advancing in the country. In this context, Jura positions itself as a space of resistance and proposition, strengthening the protagonism of social movements, the academic community, and populations that have historically fought for life and the environment.
During the two days of the event, the public will be able to visit the Land Reform Fair, which offers agroecological foods, medicinal plants, handicrafts, books, and MST products; follow debates with researchers and representatives of social movements about the effects of agribusiness, mining, and hydropower in the Amazon; watch documentaries about the struggles of peasants, indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and riverside communities; and participate in cultural moments that celebrate the resistance of Amazonian peoples through music, mysticism, and art.
Jura 2025 is promoted by the research groups Social Movements, Education, and Citizenship in the Amazon (GMSECA), Peasant Territorialization in the Amazon (GPTECA), Study and Research in Social and Educational Thought of the Amazon Margins (GEPPSEMA), Education in Quilombos (Eduq), Musical Education, Policies, Decolonialities, and Resistance (Empodera), INcorpoRe (CEDF), linked to the CCSE of Uepa, and has the partnership of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Federal Rural University of the Amazon (Ufra), and Federal Institute of Pará (IFPA). Admission is free, and registrations can be made at this link.
