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The article main article’s aim is to show that Fit for Purpose (FFP), with low costs and simple m... more The article main article’s aim is to show that Fit for Purpose (FFP), with low costs and simple methods, that diminishes time spend to one of the most difficult aspects of Land Administration, mostly in developing countries: the titling of the informal landholders. The article will start showing why land titling is one of the main problems for land administration. The next item will show, based on literature some existing estimations of the costs of titling informal landholders. The fourth item will show that it is possible to diminish the costs and its possible to reduce the time for titling, based on some cases that used the Fit for Purpose methodology to give out titles to small landowners in several places of the world. The conclusions will wrap up showing the main steps to reduce the costs and the time in titling landholders.
Land, 2021
The burning and the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon forest, which has been recently highlig... more The burning and the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon forest, which has been recently highlighted by the international press and occurs mostly on public or undesignated land, calls for an in-depth examination. This has traditionally been the main way to grab land, speculate, and simultaneously prove ownership by its occupation. The absence of mapping, registration, and an effective regulation of land property in Brazil, particularly in the Amazon, plays an important role in its deforestation. Recent estimations, besides others, show that the amount of land in this condition is around 200 million ha, near enough ¼ of the national surface. This article, besides examining the Brazilian deforestation characteristics, provides evidence that clear landholders’ rights diminishes deforestation, and that proposals based on concrete cases of participatory clarification of land rights in forest regions using fit for purpose (FfP) methodology promote forest preservation. The article finishe...
Land
The change from forests to pasture or agricultural land is still the largest contributor to green... more The change from forests to pasture or agricultural land is still the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil today. Although Brazil was previously able to reduce its level of deforestation from 27,000 km2 (2004) to 5000 km2 (2012), since 2014 deforestation has increased once more, reaching more than 10,000 km2 in 2021, and is expected to reach record peaks in 2022. There is enough evidence that deforestation occurs mostly on undesignated and unregistered land, as it is used as a speculative asset and/or in a productive way, but the appetite for more land grabbing is still worrisome. The literature shows that the availability of this kind of land in Brazil is between 50 and 100 million hectares, so the risk of perpetuating this pattern and destroying the remaining forests is rather large. This article’s main aim is to show how the Amazon’s deforestation reached its lowest levels mainly due to a combination of strong command-and-control policies and an institutional ...
This article presents a comparison for the impact from lack of land governance in Brazil between ... more This article presents a comparison for the impact from lack of land governance in Brazil between livestock and agricultural production. It begins with a brief description of the land regulatory system and its development in Mato Grosso do Sul State and Brazil. The methodology was based on focus groups research, conducted by CEPEA/USP (Center for advanced Studies on Applied Economics/University of São Paulo) on local production sites in Mato Grosso do Sul state, where a regional modal farm was established. With these data, a comparison for the importance of land prices in livestock and soybean investment indicators (Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return) was performed to understand how land speculation process can be described through the traditional succession of these two activities. The results shows how lack of land governance affects in different ways the Livestock and Agricultural production. In livestock production there is lower investment demand, lower risk and lower profitability given a distinguished importance for land appreciation in the investment analysis. As for soybean and corn production, land appreciation showed a less important role, since it has been a clearly profitable activity on its own. Because soybean and corn production has a considerably higher risk and demand for investment, land prices showed a greater importance as the "opportunity cost of land" than speculative uses, what increases the pressure over the owner to be more productive (since the farmer could alternatively lease or sell the land for a lower risk income). Still, the great amount of capital to acquire land tend to keep away new investors from the development of production activities through the acquisition of agricultural land, given its impact on investment indicators.
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The article main article’s aim is to show that Fit for Purpose (FFP), with low costs and simple m... more The article main article’s aim is to show that Fit for Purpose (FFP), with low costs and simple methods, that diminishes time spend to one of the most difficult aspects of Land Administration, mostly in developing countries: the titling of the informal landholders. The article will start showing why land titling is one of the main problems for land administration. The next item will show, based on literature some existing estimations of the costs of titling informal landholders. The fourth item will show that it is possible to diminish the costs and its possible to reduce the time for titling, based on some cases that used the Fit for Purpose methodology to give out titles to small landowners in several places of the world. The conclusions will wrap up showing the main steps to reduce the costs and the time in titling landholders.
Land, 2021
The burning and the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon forest, which has been recently highlig... more The burning and the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon forest, which has been recently highlighted by the international press and occurs mostly on public or undesignated land, calls for an in-depth examination. This has traditionally been the main way to grab land, speculate, and simultaneously prove ownership by its occupation. The absence of mapping, registration, and an effective regulation of land property in Brazil, particularly in the Amazon, plays an important role in its deforestation. Recent estimations, besides others, show that the amount of land in this condition is around 200 million ha, near enough ¼ of the national surface. This article, besides examining the Brazilian deforestation characteristics, provides evidence that clear landholders’ rights diminishes deforestation, and that proposals based on concrete cases of participatory clarification of land rights in forest regions using fit for purpose (FfP) methodology promote forest preservation. The article finishe...
Land
The change from forests to pasture or agricultural land is still the largest contributor to green... more The change from forests to pasture or agricultural land is still the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil today. Although Brazil was previously able to reduce its level of deforestation from 27,000 km2 (2004) to 5000 km2 (2012), since 2014 deforestation has increased once more, reaching more than 10,000 km2 in 2021, and is expected to reach record peaks in 2022. There is enough evidence that deforestation occurs mostly on undesignated and unregistered land, as it is used as a speculative asset and/or in a productive way, but the appetite for more land grabbing is still worrisome. The literature shows that the availability of this kind of land in Brazil is between 50 and 100 million hectares, so the risk of perpetuating this pattern and destroying the remaining forests is rather large. This article’s main aim is to show how the Amazon’s deforestation reached its lowest levels mainly due to a combination of strong command-and-control policies and an institutional ...
This article presents a comparison for the impact from lack of land governance in Brazil between ... more This article presents a comparison for the impact from lack of land governance in Brazil between livestock and agricultural production. It begins with a brief description of the land regulatory system and its development in Mato Grosso do Sul State and Brazil. The methodology was based on focus groups research, conducted by CEPEA/USP (Center for advanced Studies on Applied Economics/University of São Paulo) on local production sites in Mato Grosso do Sul state, where a regional modal farm was established. With these data, a comparison for the importance of land prices in livestock and soybean investment indicators (Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return) was performed to understand how land speculation process can be described through the traditional succession of these two activities. The results shows how lack of land governance affects in different ways the Livestock and Agricultural production. In livestock production there is lower investment demand, lower risk and lower profitability given a distinguished importance for land appreciation in the investment analysis. As for soybean and corn production, land appreciation showed a less important role, since it has been a clearly profitable activity on its own. Because soybean and corn production has a considerably higher risk and demand for investment, land prices showed a greater importance as the "opportunity cost of land" than speculative uses, what increases the pressure over the owner to be more productive (since the farmer could alternatively lease or sell the land for a lower risk income). Still, the great amount of capital to acquire land tend to keep away new investors from the development of production activities through the acquisition of agricultural land, given its impact on investment indicators.
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