The Rural Environmental Cadastre (CAR) as a tool for environmental regularization in land reform settlements

2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the Land Statute (Law no. 4,504/1964). Enacted at the beginning of the military dictatorship, the Land Statute was the formula found to contain the pressure coming from rural areas which demanded a government policy based on Land Reform. Although designed primarily to distribute land in the Northern Region, after the redemocratization in 1985, peasant movements were present in the five regions of the country, showing that the struggle for land happened Recebido: 01/10/2014