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land reform
Land reform is essentially the redistribution of land and can be used to overcome the inefficiencies in the use of land and labour. It includes:
> expropriation of large estates, redistributing land to individual farmers, landless people or communal groups
> consolidation of small fragmented farms
> increasing security of tenure for the farmer
> attempting land colonisation projects
> moving land into state ownership
BRAZIL
In Brazil, thousands of impoverished farmers have joined the Movimento dos Sem Terra (MST) (the Landless Workers' Movement). This group has organised protests and property invasions, sometimes risking violent confrontation, because so much of the arable land in the country is controlled by a handful of wealthy families. As a result of such pressure, the Brazilian government began to redistribute land on an unprecedented scale in the 1990s.
> expropriation of large estates, redistributing land to individual farmers, landless people or communal groups
> consolidation of small fragmented farms
> increasing security of tenure for the farmer
> attempting land colonisation projects
> moving land into state ownership
BRAZIL
In Brazil, thousands of impoverished farmers have joined the Movimento dos Sem Terra (MST) (the Landless Workers' Movement). This group has organised protests and property invasions, sometimes risking violent confrontation, because so much of the arable land in the country is controlled by a handful of wealthy families. As a result of such pressure, the Brazilian government began to redistribute land on an unprecedented scale in the 1990s.
MST supporters in Brazil