Investor Presentaiton
Abstract
Brazil has the fifth largest national land area of the world and this land resource represents a critical asset for the
country's urban, agricultural and economic development, also providing essential environmental services.
Nevertheless, it has an historical lack of governance over its lands, failing to provide secure land rights and to
control the extensive frauds resulting in public and private land grabs. The objective of this study is to depict
evidences of this land grabs and propose a typology for analyzing them. Last, we will use this evidences and
typology to point to a way forward through some policy propositions aimed at tackling these fraudulent land grabs.
Key Words: land grab, Amazon region, Land Administration, cerrado
Introduction
Brazil has the fifth largest national land area of the world and this land resource represents a
critical asset for the country's urban, agricultural and economic development, also providing
essential environmental services. Nevertheless, it has an historical lack of governance over its
lands, failing to provide secure land rights and to control the extensive frauds resulting in large
processes of land grabs.
The objective of this study is to depict evidences of land grab process in different moments and
regions to understand its main features. The study will mainly compare the processes of land
grab in the states of the Amazon biomes that occurred manly at the end of last century, with
cases of the cerrado biome that is occurring in the beginning of this century. But this latest land
grabbing is happening at the cerrado, mostly at the states of the MATOPIBA' with the plantation
of soya bean. And as the difference in revenues from the previous subsistence agriculture to the
modern soya been plantation is so large the conflicts are very strong.
1 MATOPIBA is the shortening of the name of the four states were this process is happening: Maranhão,
Tocantins, Piaui and Bahia.View entire presentation