Brazil considering leasing farm land to foreigners to circumvent sales restrictions

Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 09:55 UTC

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Brazil may start leasing farm land to foreigners to find a way around new legal restrictions on land sales and attract more foreign investment, the agriculture minister said. Read full article

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GeoffWard
So, . . . . .
is there a Central Land Office that provided detailed month-by-month reports for the
Brasilian Federal and
State Governments AND for
Unasur and Mercosur
showing
(i) the present status of land sales/leases to foreign nationals/governments/entities and
(ii) the month-on-month history of these transactions over the years?

You must be joking!

This would need a new President of Unasur to tell all the South American countries that it is really, really important to know which foreign countries are gaining ownership of the lands of South America.

Softly, softly, bit by bit, 5,000 hectares at a time, the country is being sold off from under our very feet.
May 10th, 2011 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
Geoff, what you just typed, doesn't make sense at all. Don't you get tired of your own nonsense?
Being on pension must be hard huh. You're bored, get a job, do some community work. I heard they need some volunteers at the British Cemetery in Salvador, State of Bahia. Anyway, take it easy huh..stop drinking coffee.
May 10th, 2011 - 11:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
Tell me the bits you´re having trouble with and I´ll try to help you.
May 11th, 2011 - 12:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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jerry
It appears to me that Brazil has the right attitude. Encourage foreign inestment, but maintain land ownership within the country.
May 11th, 2011 - 04:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
A lot better than it was, Jerry, but with so much corruption any land laws are easily broken.

And in addition,
the present President has drafted new law that *titles to land are not absolute*
- if an invading and squatting 'landless peasant ' lays claim to it.

Thus land ownership in Brasil is what a peoples' court says it it, each peasant occupation assessed individually, and with the squatting peasant as the prime concern.
May 11th, 2011 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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lsolde
@5 GeoffWard, Geoff,don't take too much notice of Fido Dido, he's a proven idiot(with bad teeth?).
lnvestment is good but you must keep control over your own country.
May 11th, 2011 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
haha, poor Isolde, compares me with herself...a proven idiot with bad teeth is British. Next time, do a better job Isolde.

Geoff, prove it that all land laws are easily broken.
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