POR QUE É IMPORTANTE DISCUTIR OS direitos de propriedade NO BRASIL RURAL?

This fact sheet by the Climate Policy Initiative and PUC-Rio examines the impact of property rights uncertainty in rural Brazil, highlighting how legal instability contributes to deforestation, violence, and economic inefficiency.

• Brazil ranks 76th out of 129 countries in terms of the security of property rights for movable and immovable assets, according to 2015 data from the Property Rights Alliance.
• Uncertainty regarding property rights in rural areas leads to increased deforestation, as clearing forests is used as evidence that land is productive to avoid expropriation for agrarian reform or occupation by landless workers. Additionally, identifying responsible owners is difficult, which hinders efforts to stop deforestation.
• Land disputes and property rights uncertainty are linked to high levels of violence; between 1994 and 2015, there were 770 homicides related to land conflicts. Brazil is also a global leader in the assassination of environmental and land rights activists.
• Economic productivity is hindered by property insecurity, as producers reduce investments or choose unsuitable crops to avoid land loss. The land leasing market is described as incipient, with only 3% of land leased or cultivated in partnership in Brazil, compared to 33% in the USA and 38% in Europe.
• Several institutional and systemic failures contribute to property uncertainty: a complex system with 11 federal executive bodies, a lack of integration between public and private databases, precarious enforcement in remote areas, and imprecise registration (georeferencing was only introduced in 2004). In the states of Pará and Piauí, fewer than 50% of rural properties are registered.
• Public land management is problematic, with an estimated 20% of Brazilian territory consisting of public lands without a specific destination (terras devolutas), which are often occupied irregularly. In the Legal Amazon, 24% of Union lands are illegally occupied, an area equivalent to the combined size of Bahia and Minas Gerais.
• Fraudulent appropriation of land, known as 'grilagem', is a significant issue, with 23% of the state of Pará under suspicion of this practice.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2016). POR QUE É IMPORTANTE DISCUTIR OS direitos de propriedade NO BRASIL RURAL? https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/infografico_direito_propriedade_CPI_PT.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. POR QUE É IMPORTANTE DISCUTIR OS direitos de propriedade NO BRASIL RURAL? 2016. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/infografico_direito_propriedade_CPI_PT.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2016por, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{POR QUE É IMPORTANTE DISCUTIR OS direitos de propriedade NO BRASIL RURAL?}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2016}, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/infografico_direito_propriedade_CPI_PT.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }