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Weekly Report - 31 March 2011 (WR-11-13)
BRAZIL: Agrarian policy to keep MST under control
Agronomist Celso Lacerda was inaugurated as the new president of
the Brazilian institute for colonisation and agrarian reform (Incra, in the
Portuguese acronym) this week promising to promote “private sector standards" in
the public body following a series of mismanagement scandals. “We have to
qualify Incra's management [...] to spend less and produce more," he said.
Critics, however, say that Lacerda's talk was a demonstration of the clever
propaganda apparatus inherited by the administration of President Dilma Rousseff
rather than a definite political commitment to improve support for Brazil's
agriculture sector. Indeed, his appointment could soothe problems for Rousseff,
not least with Brazil's largest - but diminishing - landless association
Movimento dos Sem-Terra (MST).
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