Title:	The rise and fall of land reform in Brazil A tale in three acts.
Authors:	NAVARRO, Z.
Affiliation:	ZANDER SOARES DE NAVARRO, SIM.
Date Issued:	2016
Citation:	Revista de Política Agrícola, Brasília, DF, ano 25, n. 3, p. 36-51, jul./ago/set. 2016.
Description:	Land reform in Brazil experienced in the early 1960s an initial historical moment of intense political debate without concrete steps to materialize it. But a second and recent moment, from the mid-1990s onwards produced a relevant record in terms of poor families settled and a huge area expropriated under that policy. However, a spectacular process of agricultural expansion and intense technological incorporation was simultaneously observed thus positing an intriguing question - how property rights and a required ?institutional framework? directly affected by land expropriation and land invasions by the landless groups did not block that process of agricultural growth? This concrete case exposes the analytical flaws of mainstream literature, which requires institutional preconditions to explain development and/or implementation of national policies. This apparent antinomy constitutes the analytical brackground of this article.
Keywords:	Brazilian rural history Economic history Institutional functionalism Land redistribution Rural Brazil História rural brasileira História econômica Funcionalismo institucional Brasil rural Redistribuição de terra
Type of Material:	Artigo de periódico
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em periódico indexado / Embrapa Unidades Centrais (AI-SEDE)