 Land structure and agrarian reform in BrazilMarcos C. Cavalcanti de Albuquerque () Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1987, vol. 7, issue 3, 398-435 Abstract: This paper is an attempt to analise land ownership patterns in Brazil and theirrelation to economic variables such as production, productivity, land use, and profitability.Some conclusions and derived with respect to the implementation of the land reform programand its effects on the economic aspects of the Brazilian agricultural sector. The mainconclusions are: a) from an economic point of view ‘land should be treated on equal termswith any other factor of production; b) there is no evidence as to land being extensively usedwith speculative purposes; e) no significant change has been occurring in regard to the heavilyconcentrated land ownership pattern observed in Brazil; d) no significant differences wereobserved among different size-group of farms with respect to economic efficiency (partialproductivity differences are explained by differences in factor availability and reflect properresource allocation behavior by farmers); e) land-reform in Brazil, such as proposed by thegovernment, is not the correct policy to promote agricultural growth and development. JEL Classification: Q15; Q18. Keywords: Land reform; land structure; agricultural productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:7:y:1987:i:3:p:398-435:id:1660 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Brazilian Journal of Political Economy from Center of Political Economy |
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