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Law No. 8.511 creating the State Fund for Support to the Development of Small Rural Settlements.

Country/Territory
Brazil
Territorial subdivision
Rio Grande do Sul
Document type
Legislation
Date
1988 (2013)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development
Keyword
Special fund Research Farming Financial agricultural measures Poverty Agricultural development Youth Smallholders/peasants Indigenous peoples
Geographical area
Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic
Entry into force notes
This Law enters into force on the day of its publication.
Abstract

This Law, consisting of 9 Chapters, creates the State Fund for Support to the Development of Small Rural Settlements under the Department of Rural Development, Fisheries and Cooperatives. This Fund is entitled to allow agricultural financing to be used to guarantee loans, invest resources in agricultural partnerships, grant funding, provide resources for Scholarships not returnable under "Scholarship Program Rural Youth" as well as strengthen cooperatives, associations, small farms, farmers, agrarian reform settlements, indigenous and fishery communities and rural quilombos for rural development.

Full text
Portuguese
Website
www.al.rs.gov.br

References - Legislation

Implemented by

Decree No. 51.680 approving the Regulation of the State Fund for Support to the Development of Small Rural Settlements - FEAPER.

Legislation | Brazil | 2014

Keyword: Special fund, Research, Farming, Financial agricultural measures, Poverty, Agricultural development, Youth, Indigenous peoples

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Amended by

Law No. 14.373 establishing the Rural Youth Scholarship Programme and amending Law No. 8.511 authorizing the creation of the State Fund to Support the Development of Small Rural Establishments.

Legislation | Brazil | 2013

Keyword: Special fund, Research, Farming, Financial agricultural measures, Poverty, Agricultural development, Youth, Smallholders/peasants, Family farming, Indigenous peoples

Source: FAO, FAOLEX