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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 14 November 2018

In brief: Brazil

* Tereza Cristina da Costa, who has been appointed as Brazil’s future agriculture minister by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, has said that her ministry will assume the responsibility of carrying out a land reform in the country once the new government assumes office in January 2019. Brazil’s agricultural land use and distribution policies are currently determined by the national colonisation and agrarian reform institute (Incra) and the family agriculture and agricultural development secretariats, which fall under the office of the presidency. But, after holding a meeting with Bolsonaro, Da Costa said that in the future these responsibilities will be fully assumed by her portfolio. The announcement has proven controversial because traditionally the agriculture ministry has defended the interests of agribusiness and large-scale landowners, which is why it had previously been decided to create independent entities such as Incra to help promote a more equal land distribution in the country.  

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