Agrarian structure, foreign investment in land, and land prices in Brazil

Sauer, Sérgio; Leite, Sérgio Pereira

doi:10.1080/03066150.2012.686492

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“…Producers reported that renting is an attractive option for expansion because it allows them to keep more capital liquid than purchasing new lands, particularly in areas with rapidly rising land prices such as agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon [43][44][45]. Respondents and interviewees in FN and NU reported up to a 20-year payback time on new land purchases.…”

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Property Arrangements and Soy Governance in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso: Implications for Deforestation-Free Production

Rausch

Gibbs

2016

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Abstract:The production of soy is one of the most important economic activities in the Brazilian Amazon, though the expansion of this industry has come at the cost of huge swaths of forest. Since 2006, the private firms that buy and trade soybeans globally have assumed a key role in ensuring that soy producers comply with forest protection policies, including the Soy Moratorium and public policies banning the use of illegally deforested land. We used evidence from field interviews and a GIS of property boundaries and soy-production areas to describe the private sector governance process and to characterize the variety of property arrangements underlying soy production in Mato Grosso, the leading soy-producing state in the Brazilian Amazon. These increasingly complex property arrangements include ownership of multiple properties by a single producer, use of rental properties owned by others, and soy and cattle production on a single property. This complexity could create loopholes allowing soy associated with deforestation to enter the supply chain. Comprehensive soy-governance strategies that include more robust procedures for verifying the provenance of soy across all properties, that account for the entire property rather than only the area planted to soy, and that use more transparent verification systems could achieve greater reductions in deforestation.

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Section: Use Of Rental Properties For Soy Productionmentioning

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Property Arrangements and Soy Governance in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso: Implications for Deforestation-Free Production

Rausch

Gibbs

2016

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“…Indeed, several factors are currently considered in the literature to be determinants of land prices: institutional aspects [25], spatial influence [8,16,23,42,57], international investment [2,44], and the rental price of land [24,51], among others factors.…”

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Sugarcane expansion and farmland prices in São Paulo State, Brazil

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Background: Brazil is the world's largest sugarcane producer, and its production is concentrated in south-central and northeast regions, particularly in the state of São Paulo. The land use change, principally from the increasing sugarcane production, may reflect in the farmland prices. The aim of this study is to evaluate the extent to which agricultural land prices in São Paulo are determined by variations in cultivation and prices of three products that represent a significant share of agriculture in the state: sugarcane, soy and corn, in a low-inflation environment. Methods:Analysis is based on data from the Rural Development Offices (EDR) from 1997 to 2013. A simple panel data model is constructed with land price as the dependent variable, subdivided, according to the definition of the São Paulo State Institute of Agricultural Economics, into first-and second-class croplands. Cultivation area, unit price of the products, and lease value are explanatory variables, according to each crop. Inflation and the overall production value of São Paulo's farming production, excluding the production values of corn, soy and sugarcane, also serve as explanatory variables. Results:The results show that in São Paulo, although part of the land price variation can be explained by the variables associated with their productive use, the impact of inflation indicates that land's function in storing value contributes significantly to land prices. Conclusions:The most prominent conclusion is that expansion in sugarcane cultivation has led to higher farmland prices in the state of São Paulo.

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“…14 O estudo do Banco Mundial (2010) apontou as razões ou fatores da expansão da produção (e também das demandas e transações de terras) foram: a) demanda por alimentos, ração, celulose e outras matérias primas industriais, em consequência do aumento populacional e da renda; b) demanda por matérias-primas para os biocombustíveis (reflexo das políticas e demandas dos principais países consumidores) e, c) deslocamento da produção de commodities para regiões de terra abundante, onde a terra é mais barata e as possibilidades de crescimento da produtividade são maiores (BANCO, 2010, p. 7). 15 Apesar de não explicitado pelas autoras, esses mecanismos têm uma dimensão fundamental -presente nas noções de expropriação, acumulação primitiva ou acumulação por espoliação -que é a geração de valor via renda fundiária -inclusive tendo a terra como um ativo financeiro -e, consequentemente, aumento dos preços das terras (SAUER e LEITE, 2012;WILKINSON, REYDON e Di SABBATO, 2012). 16 A 'apropriação do controle' está, frequentemente, associada a uma mudança no uso (na destinação e no significado) da terra e dos recursos, uma vez que novas utilizações são determinadas por imperativos no acúmulo de capital, que "passa a controlar um fator-chave de produção, a terra" (BORRAS et al, 2012, p. 404).…”

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‘Land grabbing’ e ‘Green grabbing’: Uma leitura da ‘corrida na produção acadêmica’ sobre a apropriação global de terras

Sauer

Borras

2016

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ResumoA partir de 2008, houve uma extensa produção e publicação de artigos acadêmicos, basicamente em inglês, sobre um fenômeno denominado corrida mundial por terras ou land grabbing (apropriação de terras). Depois de cinco ou seis anos, essa produção se mantém, mas com construções teórico-empíricas mais elaboradas -inclusive com a reformulação de conceitos e criação de outros como green grabbing (apropriação verde) e water grabbing (apropriação da água) -, especialmente porque as primeiras reflexões eram excessivamente centradas em dados quantitativos e escala (quantidade de hectares transacionados), em grandes investimentos estrangeiros em terras agrícolas e voltados para estudos de casos sobre a compra de terras no Continente Africano. O objetivo deste artigo é retomar os termos do debate, relendo argumentos e discutindo formulações teóricas (inclusive o próprio conceito de land grabbing), procurando construir diálogos teóricos e agendas de pesquisas acadêmicas no Brasil, pois o mesmo -além ser um país com históricos problemas agrários como a concentração da terra -é marcado por investimentos externos, mas também incentiva a apropriação privada de terras em outros lugares e países, o que resulta na expansão das fronteiras agrícolas e gera conflitos e disputas territoriais.Palavras-chave: Estrangeirização. Grilagem. Apropriação verde. Investimentos estrangeiros. Compra de terra. AbstractAfter 2008, there has been an extensive production and publication of academic articles in English, dealing with a phenomenon called global land rush or land grabbing. After five or six years, such academic production continuous but more elaborated theoretically and with larger empirical evidences, including some conceptual reformulations and creation other

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Agrarian structure, foreign investment in land, and land prices in Brazil

Cited by 121 publications

References 10 publications

Property Arrangements and Soy Governance in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso: Implications for Deforestation-Free Production

Property Arrangements and Soy Governance in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso: Implications for Deforestation-Free Production

Sugarcane expansion and farmland prices in São Paulo State, Brazil

‘Land grabbing’ e ‘Green grabbing’: Uma leitura da ‘corrida na produção acadêmica’ sobre a apropriação global de terras

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