Brazil faced with need to ensure land distribution

The distribution of land in Brazil remains an unsolved problem and is more complex than it was in the crisis observed a few decades ago, according to representatives from social movements and specialists heard by Agência Brasil. Data from the 2006 Agriculture Census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (“IBGE”) bring to light the country’s concentrated land-owning structure. At the time, there were 15,012 properties with an area of over 2.5 thousand hectares each, totaling 98,480 million hectares of land.