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Article: POPULATION-BRAZIL: AGRARIAN REFORM FACES IDENTITY CRISIS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- January 7, 1999
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Mario Osava
Inter Press Service English News Wire
01-07-1999
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 7 (IPS) -- Brazil's agrarian reform has
been presented by its government as a success, but its future
appears uncertain, partly because of a growing rural-urban drift.
During the first government (1995-1998) of newly reelected
president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 287,539 families were settled,
surpassing the goals set for the agrarian reform program as well
as the results of the previous 30 years, according to Minister of
Agrarian Policy Raul Jungmann.
But in the same period, an estimated 400,000 families left the
countryside in an exodus that is still going on and which cancels
out the effort to keep farmers on ...