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Brazil is a country with enormous concentration of farmland in the hands of a privileged few. Land inequality has remained virtually unchanged since colonial times. Not even the efforts made by the successive democratic governments over the last three decades to redistribute land through the PNRA have changed this situation. Continuous high land inequality has stymied Brazil’s path toward a more socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
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© 2015 Wilder Robles and Henry Veltmeyer
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Robles, W., Veltmeyer, H. (2015). The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil: A Historical Background. In: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil. Social Movements and Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137517203_4
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