Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab

Oliveira, Gustavo de L. T.

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“…As of 2011, roughly 4.5 million hectares (<2 percent of the total agricultural area in Brazil) were owned directly by foreigners (INCRA 2012). Where foreign direct investment does occur, it is more often in the form of foreign-domestic agribusiness partnerships, rather than direct land ownership (Oliveira 2013). Furthermore, foreign investment in land goes two ways, since Brazilian farmers are very active in purchasing land in the agro-industrial soy frontiers of Bolivia and Paraguay.…”

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“…While soy became one of the larger land uses in this region, it never fully displaced livestock, which continues to be the largest land use in the region (Table 4; IBGE 2006). Soy production advanced into the Cerrado savanna ecosystem in the Center-West region of Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s as part of a larger government process to modernize and increase the legibility of this 'empty space' (Oliveira 2013;Hecht 2005;Scott 1998;Hecht and Mann 2008). The high-modernism ideology of the period included an unwavering confidence in the potential of science and technology to achieve social progress (Scott 1998), which led the government to invest heavily in agricultural research and development.…”

Section: A Brief History Of Soy Production In Brazilmentioning

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“…The high-modernism ideology of the period included an unwavering confidence in the potential of science and technology to achieve social progress (Scott 1998), which led the government to invest heavily in agricultural research and development. Plant geneticists and agronomists from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) were sent to the United States for training and charged with the task of developing new agricultural technologies for the heretofore un-arable landscape (Hecht and Mann 2008;Oliveira 2013). This federal investment led to the development of so-called miracle soy cultivars capable of tolerating the metal-heavy, nutrient-poor, acidic soils of the Center-West, with high levels of biological nitrogen fixation.…”

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Green for gold: social and ecological tradeoffs influencing the sustainability of the Brazilian soy industry

Garrett

Rausch

2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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In this study we assess the sustainability of the Brazilian soy industry over the past 40 years in comparison to alternative land uses. We conclude that Brazilian soy production performs as well as or better than sugarcane or cattle production in a number of areas, including macroeconomic contributions, local economic development and land use efficiency, though it involves similar tradeoffs between growth and equity, and food production and conservation. While there is no evidence that soy has reduced food security in Brazil, tax redistributions and value-added activities from soy remain limited, particularly in comparison to sugarcane production. Emerging environmental governance measures have helped to reduce the land cover impacts from soy; however, little effort has been taken to minimize the impacts of intensification.

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Green for gold: social and ecological tradeoffs influencing the sustainability of the Brazilian soy industry

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Rausch

2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…Despite legislative tools to control deforestation (e.g. permanent preservation areas, legal reserves, and the Rural Environmental Register or CAR -Cadastro Ambiental Rural in Portuguese), and promotion of zero deforestation, land-grabbing continues in Amapá and other parts of the Amazon, contributing to on-going deforestation and conflicts (Benatti et al 2006;Hill 2016;Oliveira 2013;Silva 2014;Tinoco and Sá 2016). This situation may be aggravated by the passing of Federal Lands to the state of Amapá, which occurred on 15 th April 2016 (see decree in Brazil 2016), though land grabbing, land conflicts and the expulsion of local farmers have been on-going in the state since 2002 (Silva 2014).…”

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Biodiversity, threats and conservation challenges in the Cerrado of Amapá, an Amazonian savanna

Mustin¹,

Carvalho²,

Hilário³

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An Amazonian savanna in northern Brazil known as the Cerrado of Amapá is under imminent threat from poor land-use planning, the expansion of large-scale agriculture and other anthropogenic pressures. These savannas house a rich and unique flora and fauna, including endemic plants and animals. However, the area remains under-sampled for most taxa, and better sampling may uncover new species. We estimate that only ~9.16% of these habitats have any kind of protection, and legislative changes threaten to further weaken or remove this protection. Here we present the status of knowledge concerning the biodiversity of the Cerrado of Amapá, its conservation status, and the main threats to the conservation of this Amazonian savanna. To secure the future of these unique and imperilled habitats, we suggest urgent expansion of protected areas, as well as measures that would promote less-damaging land uses to support the local population.

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“…25 use to instantiate their work, are insufficient in showing how the state rationalises and legitimates such projects (Oliveira, 2013).…”

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Land Control, Authority and Political Economy, and a Planned Petroleum Infrastructure Project in Timor-Leste

Grainger¹

2018

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Land in Timor-Leste had been a subject of national importance even before the government first announced a planned petroleum infrastructure 'mega-project' in 2009, the 'Tasi Mane' project, on the country's south coast in Suai, Betano and Beaco. This project has brought again into sharp relief the question of land and its control. Much recent work has focussed on 'land grabs' or how foreign capital and the state have played a significant role in dispossessing smallholders of arable land in other settings. This paper highlights three aspects which are inherent in the process of control. First, authority lies at the heart of land control alongside political-economic factors that lead to relocation of residents from land in project areas. Second, problems of recognition of land rights in project areas have led to more strident claims to authority locally. This issue I demonstrate by showing the historical legacy of two communities that occupy Beaco land. Third, the case study of the two comunities sheds light on the social relations inherent in local property relations and subsequent disputes catalysed by contests over land control.

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Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab

Cited by 23 publications

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Green for gold: social and ecological tradeoffs influencing the sustainability of the Brazilian soy industry

Green for gold: social and ecological tradeoffs influencing the sustainability of the Brazilian soy industry

Biodiversity, threats and conservation challenges in the Cerrado of Amapá, an Amazonian savanna

Land Control, Authority and Political Economy, and a Planned Petroleum Infrastructure Project in Timor-Leste

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