Brazil Rural Issues

May 2007

E-Library

• NEAD-Núcleo de Estudos Agrários e Desenvolvimento Rural: Library, Selected Reading and Studies

• Forced Labour in Brazil, Anti-Slavery & CPT-Comissão Pastoral da Terra, 28 June-2 July 2004
• Conflitos no Campo 2003, CPT-Comissão Pastoral da Terra, April 2004
• Pará: Estado de conflito: Violência, Grilagem de Terras e Trabalho Escravo, Greenpeace, November 2003
• Report on a Supplementary Study of the Magnitude of Slave Labour in Brazil, Jan Rocha, ILO-International Labor Organization, October 2003
• Poverty Alleviation Through Access to Land: The Experience of the Brazilian Agrarian Reform Process, Jose Eli Veiga, FAO, Committee on World Food Security, 16 May 2003
• The Origins of Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST): the Natalino Episode in Rio Grande do Sul (1981-84). A Case of Ideal Interest Mobilization, Miguel Carter, working paper no. 43, Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, 2003
• Landless Battalions:The Sem Terra Movement of Brazil (interview), João Pedro Stédile, New Left Review, 15, May-June 2002
• Brasil: Cien Años de Questión Agraria, Elisa P. Reis, RICS-Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales, no. 157, UNESCO, September 1998
• Decentralized Rural Development and Enhanced Community Participation: A Case Study from Northeast Brazil, Johan van Zyl, Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

NGOs, Associations, Unions

• ABRA-Associação Brasileira de Reforma Agraria
• CPT-Comissão Pastoral da Terra: linked to the Catholic Church; news, news-bulletin, publications
• CRESOL-Crédito da Agricultura Familiar: family farming credit, cooperative; articles and news
• CONTAG-Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura: national rural trade union
• IDACO-Instituto de Desenvolvimento e Ação Comunitária: projects ans studies; video and publications; multilingiual site (English version)
• MST-Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra: news-bulletin and publications, multimedia section, library with articles and data; multilingual site (English version)
• MUR-Missão Urbano e Rural: international Christian movement; citizenship and globalization; articles and papers, interviews, news, documents, etc.; English and Spanish versions

Academia/Research

• CPDA-Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento, Agricultura e Sociedade: UFRRJ-Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro; Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura (periodical)
• Landless Voices: University of Nottingham, multimedia research project on landless culture and activism; English
• Land Research Action Network: land and agrarian change around the world; Brazilian section with full-text papers
• NERA-Nucleo de Estudos, Pesquisas e Projetos de Reforma Agrária: UNESP-Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho; Revista Nera
• Peasant Social Worlds and their Transformation: "interactive learning project" on Mexico and Brazil by John Gledhill & Mark Harris, University of Manchester; site map
• PGDR-Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Rural: UFRGS-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; full-text papers and dissertations

Government / Public / Political Institutions

• Embrapa-Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária: governmental research institute; virtual library; search; site map; English and Spanish
• INCRA-Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária: agrarian reform agency; data, documents, legislation, publications (Portuguese, English Spanish or French)
• NEAD-Núcleo de Estudos Agrários e Desenvolvimento Rural: Agrarian Development Ministry; studies, papers, etc.; NGOs catalogue; search
• PRONAF: family farming program
• PRONERA:educational program for settlers
• New Prossiga Fome-Portal da Fome e da Segurança Alimentar: legislation, statistics, links, etc
• SEADE-Sistema Estadual de Análise de Dados de São Paulo: research institute; data on rural sector, São Paulo and national level; Sensor Rural (labour force)

• Agrarian Development
• Agriculture

International Sources

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