Tag: Agrarian reform

Families are camped in disputed areas - Photo: Thaís Borges

A Brazil Judge Rules Again in Favor of Land-grabbers, Against Peasants in the Amazon

Until this week, 80 impoverished families, camped for almost a year under black plastic ...

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Sue Branford and Maurício Torres

Agrarian Reform Now! Land Concentration Dehumanizes Brazil

The concentration of land in Brazil continues to be among the highest in the ...

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MST
Brazilian small farmer

Brazil’s Agrarian Reform: From 240,000 Lula “Settled,” Half Had Land Already

At the end of January, the Brazilian federal government announced that it had achieved ...

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Newsroom

Impunity in Brazil: 1,349 Rural Workers Killed and Only 15 Convictions

The final report of Brazil’s Joint Parliamentary Investigatory Commission (CPMI) on the Land points ...

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Cecília Jorge

Brazil Wants to Put Land Reform on the Global Agenda

Brazil’s Ministry of Agrarian Development believes that the 2nd Conference on Agrarian Reform and ...

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Ivan Richard

Judiciary Pointed as Main Obstacle to Agrarian Reform in Brazil

Brazil’s federal government and Brazilian social organizations initiated debates today on the proposals the ...

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Cecília Jorge

Brazil’s Landless Want More than Just Land

Brazil’s landless movement, known as the Movimento dos Sem Terra (MST), is on the ...

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Sue Branford