Market-assisted land reform and rural workers in Brazil: resistance, division, support, and accommodation (1995-2003)
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2025.e107827Keywords:
agrarian reform, land credit, World BankAbstract
This article analyzes the political disputes surrounding the implementation of market-assisted land reform (MALR) in Brazil between 1995 and 2003. It shows how the World Bank (WB) worked in conjunction with the Federal Government to promote land purchase programs negotiated between rural workers and landowners as an alternative to agrarian reform through expropriation, with the aim of weakening land occupations and reducing rural conflicts. The study highlights which social forces supported or opposed MALR and how they organized politically to achieve their goals during the presidency of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and the
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