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Library ResourceJanuary, 2011Brazil
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMay, 2011South America, BrazilIn this beginning of century, Brazil has, on one hand, a high economic growth, strong institutions in various areas and improvement of social situation, but, on the other hand, the rural and urban land situation is still very precarious, with elementary issues that are not resolved and that most developed countries solved them still in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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uma proposta institucionalista para ampliar a governança fundiária
Journal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2012South America, BrazilO artigo discute, sob uma perspectiva institucionalista, a dimensão do problema fundiário brasileiro expresso pela fragilidade dos direitos de propriedade da terra rural. Além dos condicionantes históricos referidos no texto, o artigo chama a atenção para o papel das instituições de registro e cadastro de imóveis que, por estarem separadas e não integradas, favorecem as práticas de fraude, apossamento e potencializam os conflitos fundiários. -
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Condições de produção e reprodução de assentados no Terra Vista da região cacaueira da Bahia
Journal Articles & BooksFebruary, 2011Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, BrazilO estudo teve por objetivo analisar a relação entre o trabalho e a autonomia e como essa relação se refletiu sobre as condições de reprodução dos assentados comparativamente à sua condição anterior como trabalhadores nas fazendas de cacau. A pesquisa foi realizada no Assentamento Terra Vista, localizado no município de Arataca, na região cacaueira . O tema de investigação revelou-se nas visitas e diálogos com os assentados. -
Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, BrazilNa sociedade contemporânea são grandes as preocupações frente às alterações ambientais e a maneira como as relações humanas estão entrelaçadas a esta problemática. O acelerado desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico baseado na utilização de recursos da biodiversidade e no conhecimento de comunidades tradicionais nos leva a discutir a atual realidade.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2011Qatar, Egypt, Nigeria, United States of America, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ghana, Russia, Moldova, Ethiopia, Belarus, Mozambique, Laos, Turkmenistan, Philippines, Libya, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Kuwait, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Bahrain, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, Oceania, Western Asia, Europe, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, Northern Africa
Recent increases in the level of agricultural commodity prices and the resulting demand for land has been accompanied by a rising interest in acquiring agricultural land by investors. This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2012Brazil
Um Dossiê sobre a Copa do Mundo 2014, que será sediada por 12 cidades brasileiras, e sobre as Olimpíadas 2016, que se realizarão na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, deveria ter como tema central a prática do esporte, das relações pacíficas, culturais e esportivas entre todos os povos do planeta Terra. Deveria falar de nossa alegria de termos sido escolhidos para sediar estes dois grandes eventos. Mas não é disso que trata este Dossiê.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2011Brazil
1. As Brazil embarks on a period of intensive infrastructure development—fueled by the upcoming World Cup, Olympics, and the government‘s ongoing Growth Acceleration Plan—it is an opportune time to review its experiences with land acquisition and displacement of affected persons, and to assess the extent to which its resettlement practices match up to international standards.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMarch, 2011Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, Central America, South America
Land tenure and carbon rights constitute critical issues to take into account in achieving emission reductions, ensuring transparent benefit sharing and determining non-permanence (or non-compliance) liabilities in the context of REDD+ strategies and projects. This is so because tenure systems influence who becomes involved in efforts to avoid deforestation and improve forest management, and that land tenure, carbon rights and liabilities may be linked or divorced with implications for rural development.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2011Brazil
More than 200 scientific publications and Internet sources dealing with trade in palm products in north-western South America are reviewed. We focus on value chains, trade volumes, prices, and recent developments for some of the most important raw materials derived from native palms. Trade in palm products takes place at local, regional, national, and international levels. For local communities and individual households palm products may play a key role as the most important or only source of cash income.
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