“I don't like complaining about life. There's always a way,” says Jorge in his small brick house he built 22 years ago. “My father told me I could always improvise to make things better and that's what I keep doing since I was a child.”

Temperature levels are higher than usual for this period of the year, easily reaching more than 95 degrees before noon.

Since there is not much space at Jorge's home, an old refrigerator in his backyard serves as a shelf to store eggs and seeds.

“Can't wait to be able to plant everything I want again,” says Jorge while holding a sack of seeds. Many families store their seeds and plant only for subsistence.

Every landless settlement produces only organic food. There's no such thing as a monoculture.

Picking tangerines can be a hard task, so Jorge improvises by using bamboo to knock them out of the tree, struggling to keep balance.

Jorge says he would be completely alone without his chickens. He raises them only to produce eggs.

Sometimes Jorge meets his friends to relax and forget about work for a while.

Jorge's fingers have been numb for a few months. He said he used to play his guitar, but because of his fingers he only plays when he's feeling too lonely.

It has been three months since Jorge's wife Izabel moved to a nearby city to have her arthritis treated. They've been married for more than forty years and he says he counts the hours for her to move back to their house.

Another working day has gone and Jorge rests on his bed, staring at the sky. He said: “I thank God for having this place to live and I keep thinking how things could have been if we didn't move here. We face drought, we face prejudice, we work hard, but everyday we are blessed with the products of nature. That's why we came here.”