Take note, Barbechando: The Rural Caucus of Brazil managed to have the Deputies prohibit the expropriation of land for reform.

For some time now, the Barbechando Foundation has had among its objectives to form an agricultural front similar to the one existing in Brazil. And perhaps it is a good moment to take note, as in recent hours that bloc managed to approve in the Chamber of Deputies an initiative of special interest for the sector, and that closely touches on Argentine agriculture. It is about bill 4357/2023 with which it seeks to prohibit the expropriation of productive lands to carry out an agrarian reform, something that in Brazil is especially promoted since the emergence of the demands of the Landless Movement. In fact, in Brazil there are currently two Ministries that defend apparently contradictory things: the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, more linked to agribusiness, and the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture, more dedicated to the struggles of peasant groups for access to land. In the midst of this tug-of-war, this bill appeared. The text, which was ...