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Proterra (Brazil)

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PROTERRA, or Programme for Land Redistribution and Stimulation of Agroindustry in the North and Northeast, was a Brazilian government programme of the 1970s to address rural poverty founded following the approval of the Land Statute in 1964.[1] In the Amazon basin it was supported by the World Bank.[2]

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  1. ^ Gary N. Howe, David Goodman Smallholders and Structural Change in the Brazilian Economy
  2. ^ Anthony L. Hall Developing Amazonia 1989