The main objective was to made land available to the land-hungry. The targets were the large land-owners.

If Mapuche land claims in southern Chile reflect the incommensurability of local notions of place and the legal principles of property, they also reveal intersections between indigenous and legal ontologies of land. Property ...

Previous estimates of the land area available for future cropland expansion relied on global-scale climate, soil and terrain data. They did not include a range of constraints and tradeoffs associated with land conversion. ...

Ever since the arrival of the European colonisers, theories of international law have been used to justify the process of dispossession of indigenous lands. Even though the adoption of human rights have led to some ...

This work aims to present a public policy under discussion in many municipalities of our country: land regularization and the impacts of the new legal framework. It contextualizes the issue of the right to housing and urban ...

The acquisition of land by foreign investors has been debated by several educational institutions and by Brazilian government agencies. The debate involves the effects of this practice, the risks it entails or the benefits ...