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d. expelling of landowners by large ones using titles given by the state;
4) Policies proposal and way forward
With this preliminary typology it is possible to improve future analyzes on land governance,
especially if we pretend to design better land policies to tackle the illegal appropriation of public
and private land in Brazil.
The major proposals for improving the Brazilian land governance are:
1) Focus on the development of a Land Information System (LIS) that includes capacity to
map the land and, especially, organize the land information that is decentralized in
different institutions at different levels of the government (federal, provincial and local)
to build an up to date consolidated land cadaster.
2) Creation of a new institution for Land Administration or, alternatively, centralizing this
responsibility on an existing institution.
3) Modernize the land property registration system, which usually takes part in the land
frauds, especially promoting transparency and creating mechanisms of public monitoring.
4) Promote the issuing of land titles for tenants in possession.
5) Enforce the land property taxation.
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Reydon, B.P., Telles, T.S., Fernandes, V.B., 2014. Land tenure in Brazil: The question of
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