Posted on 12/10/2019 5:19:24 PM PST by ameribbean expat
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree on Tuesday that will allow tens of thousands of small farmer to finally gain title to the land they cultivate, making good on a campaign promise to the farm sector that backed his election. The land regularization measure, which goes into effect immediately but needs to be approved by Congress within 120 days, only applies to land that has been occupied by farmers before May 2014 and up to 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) in size. Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina said the decree will allow small farmers to obtain credit that they were denied for lack of a title, and will generate more agricultural prosperity.
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Small farm up to 6,178 acres!!!
Wow
Great free enterprise move. It worked so well in So. Vietnam that the “Land to the Tiller” and other land reform programs were especially targeted by the VC assassination teams and NVA assault units.
I saw the results of this personally during my tour of SVN in the Fall, 1970, esp. in the Mekong Delta. There were two copies of land titles, enclosed in plastic. One was kept by the Govt and the other was given to the newly registered official land owner. They were very proud of having that piece of paper.
That’s almost 10 square miles per farm.
I’m headed there for the next 2 months.
I like the idea but have a different idea of a small farmer.
Margaret Thatcher did something similar with the Crofters Act.
Not every farm, not on average.
That is the max acreage, I believe.
It all depends on how productive the land is.
In Western Australia, 10 square miles is a very small farm.
You’d need some serious equipment or hundreds of farm-hands to farm all that. Probably not all is productive, but good to hear that the hard-working folks get a fair crack at their own places.
Great historical perspective, MadMax.
Free markets and property rights create prosperity.
The boys in Moline are probably happy.
Lots of boys in Moline are happy. Lots of boys in the midwest are happy. I know some BIG farmers in Iowa who have farms in Brazil.
This article may be typical mainstream media propaganda.
Usually, when I hear about these kinds of “land reforms”, it’s politicians taking land away from the farmers who’ve been working it to give to their supporters from the cities.
And it never works out.
I think you can make a fair case that the white farmers in Rhodesia truly had stolen the land, but giving it to people who have a clue how to farm didn’t do anyone any good.
This sounds more like it’s regularizing the titles of the farmers who are already working the land.
This might actually work.
IIRC we had a few problems with this issue in the early west.
That is what it is.
One of the big barriers to prosperity is that getting a clear title to property is often long, convoluted and expensive.
You can build a house on a piece of land, raise crops and never have a clear title. Which means that at any moment the government can come along and throw you off. This means that you tend not to invest your time in improvements that are not portable.
So who is losing title title to the land?
It is undeveloped land that people have settled and improved.
IIRC we had a few problems with this issue in the early west.
We had problems with the when the "West" was Western Virgina.
I took a course in college way back in 1973 that surveyed each country in Latin America. Common to all was the need for land reform as the tenant farmers scratching out a living were basically subsistence living creating revolutionary conditions. This is a step in the right direction.
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