@article{Sauer:156032,
      recid = {156032},
      author = {Sauer, Sérgio and Leite, Sergio Pereira},
      title = {Expansão Agrícola, Preços e Apropriação   de Terra Por  Estrangeiros no Brasil},
      journal = {Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (Revista  de Economia e Sociologia Rural-RESR)},
      address = {2012-09-30},
      number = {1346-2016-105120},
      series = {Volume 50},
      pages = {22},
      month = {Sep},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {The recent “rush for farmland” in the world has made of  Latin America and 
Brazil targets in the process of land  deals with a great increase of foreign investments on the  
agribusiness including land purchases by financial  companies, among others. Despite the 
low liquidity, land  deals and foreign investments in agribusiness are not new  in Brazil, 
but have increased considerably after 2002, as  it is possible to be seenin the registration system of the  National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform.  According to some field researches, most of 
the recent  investments are related to production of grains (especially  soybean) and sugarcane (to produce sugar and 
ethanol), but  also for mining,resulting, among other consequences, in a  great increase of land prices in some Brazilian  
regions.Such rush for land has led the Brazilian  government to reestablish a legal mechanism to “control”  these 
foreign investments in land deals. This article  discussesthe recent process of foreign investments in  purchasing land 
in Brazil, focusing inmain causes for such  investments and its consequences, including possible  influences on land 
prices and social and political impacts  over disputes to access land in Brazil.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/156032},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.156032},
}