This article deals with the tensions emerged among the landless social moviments and environmentalists in 1997, after the publication of Gilney Viana Report. In previous years, those movements had experienced a long period of political convergence. Supported by interviews with important actors of that process, it intends to identify elements of friction and/or agreements between those interests as well as to anticipate possible trends of such strain.
Social Movements; Agrarian Reform; Environment