PROTERRA, or Programme for Land Redistribution and Stimulation of Agroindustry in the North and Northeast, was a Brazilian government programme of the 1970s to address
rural poverty founded following the approval of the Land Statute in 1964. In the
Amazon basin it was supported by the
World Bank
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.
[Anthony L. Hall ''Developing Amazonia'' 1989 ]
References
World Bank
Brazilian legislation
Land reform
Northeast Region, Brazil
North Region, Brazil
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