Politics
Economy
Environment
Society
Human Rights & Justice
Education
Foreign Policy
Afro Brazilians
Indigenous People
Rural Issues
Gender
Labour
History
Children
Travel
   
 
 
 

Media
Opinion Poll
Maps
News
Deep Web
Search Brazil
Economic Indicators
Social Indicators

   
 
 
 

Government
Non-Profit Sector
Brazil in the World
Business

 

   
   
 
 
 
   

Brazil Rural Issues

June 2008

For Brazil, Brazilian, rural development, agribusiness, farming, farmers, agriculture, agricultural, landless, landlessness, land, labour, labor, agrarian reform, slavery, news, public policy, working papers, analysis, research, publications, data, studies, surveys, statistics.

Edited by Professor Cliff Welch
CAPES Visiting Professor, PUC-São Paulo

Hot Links
Global Sources Academia
NGOs Government
Agribusiness Miscellaneous
E-Library

  • Conflitos no Campo 2007, CPT-Comissão Pastoral da Terra, 15 April 2008
  • 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
  • Decentralized Rural Development and Enhanced Community Participation: A Case Study from Northeast Brazil, Johan van Zyl, Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
  • top

    NGOs, Associations, Unions

    • ABRA-Associação Brasileira de Reforma Agrária
    • Assesoar-Associação de Estudos, Orientação e Assistência Rural: family farming ngo from Paraná state; news, papers, etc
    • CPT-Comissão Pastoral da Terra: linked to the Catholic Church; deals with land conflict and slavery; news, reports, data
    • CRESOL-Crédito da Agricultura Familiar: family farming credit, cooperative; contains publications
    • 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)

    top

    Academia/Research

    • CEPAGRO-Centro de Estudos e Promoção da Agricultura de Grupo: projects and news on family farming and agroecology from Santa Catarina state
    • DESER-Departamento de Estudos Socio-Econômicos Rurais: research portal on family farming with news, papers, etc
    • GIPAF-Grupo de Interesse em Pesquisa para Agricultura Familiar: EMBRAPA; research portal on family farming with news, papers, etc
    • Portal da Fome e Segurança Alimentar-Prossiga: virtual library
    • UFERSA-Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido: portal with partial access
    • UFRGS-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul: PGDR-Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Rural; access to papers, etc
    • UFRRJ-Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro: CPDA-Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento, Agricultura e Sociedade; access to dissertations; Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura (periodical, access via Scielo)

    top

    Government & Public Institutions

    top

    Global Sources

    top

    Agribusiness

    top

    Miscellaneous

    top

    Contributors: Tony Mansfield (USA), Carlos Alberto Fonseca (Brazil)

    Websites listed do not represent our views. Responsibility for editorial content and accuracy rests solely on the sources.

        recommend     home     contact     about