Addresses participant's concerns on the relevance and responsiveness of the political and administrative directors to their land and other needs, tenure, squatting, structures for land management, technical help in planning, ...

In Mexico, a political shift to fit into neoliberal directives since the 80s has brought several consequences to rural households and their trajectories. This study focused on the relation between drivers of change and ...

Furthermore, we estimate price and income elasticities coefficients that quantify the households' dwelling quality response to price and income variation. Thus, a 1% increase in prices reduces the average dwelling quality ...

The need to make improvements in land regularization processes in Brazil in order to bring legal certainty to farmers, especially family members who do not have the full land ownership document, require actions to improve ...

The Social Role of Rural Property, a recent achievement of Brazilian society, was consolidated in the Federal Constitution of 1988, by which the Union was charged with the duty of monitoring its compliance through the ...

This essay has the purpose of identifying the influence of merit, tenure rights and perfonnance on the behavior of the Brazilian civil servant. The lack of an efficient merit-based system, the handicaps in the application ...