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Biblioteca The agricultural, environmental and socio-political repercussions of Brazil's land governance system

The agricultural, environmental and socio-political repercussions of Brazil's land governance system

The agricultural, environmental and socio-political repercussions of Brazil's land governance system
Land Use Policy Volume 36

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Date of publication
Dezembro 2013
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lupj:S0264837713001464
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12

Although many contemporary studies of agriculture associate larger properties with higher relative productivity, this assumption has limited relevancy for the analysis of situations in which property owners profit more from large-scale property accumulation itself rather than any superiority in exploitation opportunities offered by increased size. In Brazil, the efficiency-of-scale paradigm has been used to criticize peasant agriculture as unproductive and hide contradictions deriving from land concentration. As this paper argues, however, small-scale agriculture is actually responsible for most of Brazil's food production, rural employment and agricultural income. The paper utilizes a land governance perspective to analyze the implementation of structural reforms aimed at turning back the land monopolization tide as well as efforts to weaken long-standing legal principles that socially condition individual property “rights” in Brazil.

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Paulino, Eliane Tomiasi

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