Investor Presentaiton
The absence of mechanisms that regulate the ownership, use and occupation of rural and urban
land is one of country's major land problems. And this lack of regulation, effective rather than
rules, results from and is determined by the possibilities to speculate on land, that is, to make
money with the purchase, maintenance, transformation and subsequent resale of land in any of its
form.
It is also known that the rules that were aimed at the effective regulation of these markets
through laws always ended up being circumvented or not enforced, creating more favorable
conditions to speculation for some people. Therefore, the ideal regulation would be the one in
which society had governance and could define the proper use of the land, either from the
production point of view or for homes, simultaneously preserving the environment.
This lack of land governance can also be found systematically in the results of the four stages of
the Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) applied to Brazil in the last years,
showing that:
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Lack of control over public lands;
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Private land property registry is not reliable;
The registry coverage is incomplete and not up to date;
Lack of spatial information (georeferencing) on the registry of private land properties;
Lack of a reliable and integrated registry of public and private land;
Low level of land property taxation;
Supply, land use planning and regularization of urban land are not in line with the
demand;
Neglectful governance over large scale land and forest acquisitions
2. Land grab evidences
The effects of this lack of land governance can be seen especially in illegal or informal
appropriation of public and private lands that abound in Brazilian history. With this in mind we
chose some major case examples found in academic researches (Treccani, 2006; Holston, 1991;
Oliveira, 2005; Fernandes (2014) and government reports (Ipam, 2006; Brazil, 2001; INCRA,View entire presentation