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Decree No. 8.738 regulating the selection process for the families beneficiary of the National Agrarian Reform.

Country/Territory
Brazil
Document type
Regulation
Date
2016
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Land & soil
Keyword
Agricultural development Agricultural land Family farming Smallholders/peasants Farming Land reform Land-use planning Procedural matters Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings
Geographical area
Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic
Entry into force notes
This Decree enters into force on the day of its publication.
Abstract

This Decree, consisting of 4 Chapters, regulates the selection process for the families beneficiary of the National Agrarian Reform. This Decree specifies the following issues: the selection of families candidates for being beneficiaries of the National Agrarian Reform Programme - PNRA, the verification of the beneficiary's conditions for staying in the Programme and the illegal occupation of the settlement projects, the provisional and definitive titling of the granted plots and the allocation of the remaining areas belonging to the land reform settlement projects.

Full text
Portuguese
Website
www.planalto.gov.br

References - Legislation

Implements

Act No. 8.629 regulating rural land property in compliance with the Agrarian Reform.

Legislation | Brazil | 1993 (2017)

Keyword: Expropriation, Agricultural land, Land reform, Land-use planning

Source: FAO, FAOLEX