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| June 2009
 ABC (A Brazil Catch 22)
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are damned if you do, damned if you don't. Brazil's landless movement
(MST) have for many years advocated (and more) for land reform and
regularisation of titles for poor farmers. Many of these farmers
settled, out of necessity, on forest reserve land. Now the government
of Brazil, through Provisional Measure 458, wants to recognize these
people's possession and use of the land and grant them legal titles.
Problem is, environmental lobby groups say that giving titles to
'illegal occupiers' is tantamount to a land grab and a "green light" to
further illegal occupation and destruction of forest lands.
There's no easy solution to this quandry, although action delayed
makes action more difficult.
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| | May 2009
A Development 2.0 Manifesto
A list of twelve principles for shaping development suggested on the
World Bank's private sector development blog and some are applicable to
land administration reform > more
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| | April 2009
If You Want to Free Your Country, First Liberate Its Land
For those who missed it the first time around, an article that appeared in Newsweek by Fareed Zakaria.
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