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Article: BRAZIL: AGRIBUSINESS DRIVING LAND CONCENTRATION
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- October 6, 2009
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Fabiana Frayssinet
Inter Press Service English News Wire
10-06-2009
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The growth of
agribusiness in Brazil, with its vast monocultures of soybean or
sugarcane, is responsible for the expansion of large estates
belonging to fewer and fewer landowners, according to small
farmers' organisations and agricultural experts.
This is supported by the preliminary results of the 2006 Census
of Agriculture, carried out by the state Brazilian Institute of
Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which profiles the country's 5.2
million farms, based on direct data collection from a
representative sample.
The IBGE census reports a Gini index for land distribution in
Brazil of ...