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PHD in Urban Development at the Federal University of Perbambuco, Brazil. Research areas lines based on urban socio-spatial segregation, gender and urban planning, land rights and decolonial studies related to space production in indigenous contexts in Latin America.
Doutora em Desenvolvimento Urbano pela Universidade Federal de Perbambuco, Brasil. Linhas de pesquisa baseadas em segregação socioespacial na cidade, gênero e planejamento urbano, direitos à terra e estudos descoloniais relacionados à produção do espaço em contextos indígenas na América Latina.
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Brazilian public land destination: a case study of the Terra Legal federal initiative and the province of Mato Grosso’s Land Institute.
Brazilian Amazon Deforestation and land governance
In Brazilian land ownership issues, History not only matters - it is determinant
From colonial to modern times, Brazilian agricultural property has remained immersed in a chaotic vortex of deregulation. Attempts of institutional reform - such as the Lei de Terras (Land Law) of 1850 - have been largely unsuccessful, whilst providing legal grounds for land grab by large estates and narrowing the scope of possibilities open for legitimate reevaluations of the first institutional landmark on land use and ownership in the country - the sesmarias.
A proposition to solve the land cadaster system in Brazil: the role of CNIR and a new institutionalization
Brazil has, on the one hand, strong institutions in various areas, improved social situation and, on the other, the rural land situation is still very precarious, with basic unresolved questions, such as for example, knowledge of what is public and private land, due to the absence of cadaster. The legislation moved forward in an attempt to link the cadasters of INCRA, the Internal Revenue Service, with information from the Registry of Real Estate with the enactment of Law No. 10,267 / 2001, creating the National Register of Rural Properties – CNIR.
Immobilized land market caused by lack of secure property rights: case of the cerrado Piauiense
LAND MARKET DYNAMICS ON AN EXPANDING FRONTIER: INVESTMENT IN BRAZIL
In the last years the Brazilian agricultural frontier is expanding towards the cerrado region, more specifically the region called MATOPIBA, comprised of savannah areas of four different states located in the north and northeastern parts of the country. This research paper aims to show a recent pattern of second wave investments in the frontier aimed at inferior quality land.
BRAZILIAN RURAL PROPERTY TAXATION AND ITS RECENT STRUCTURAL CHANGES
LAND GOVERNANCE, LAND POLICY AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LAND USE AND ACCESS RIGHTS IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON AND MATOPIBA AFTER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1988.
Internationally there are an alarming number of violations of indigenous peoples’ land and human rights. Brazil is currently under the spotlight as the heightening of the political crisis that led to the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff brings national and international concerns over the uncertainty related to changes in policy that may be adopted by the interim Government in relation to indigenous peoples land rights.