Land Restoration in Brazil: A National Systems Perspective on Achievements and Challenges
NOVEMBER 2023
The need to analyse the restoration of land in each country with a national systems approach is highlighted in an essay recently. Different socio-economic factors and policies/institutions together may impact the effectiveness of efforts towards land restoration in different contexts/countries. The contribution of any one factor, say private property rights, may be different in different contexts depending on the presence (or absence) of other enabling factors. This is the rationale for using a national systems approach to view socio-economic and institutional enablers of land restoration.
We use this approach to describe the achievements and challenges in terms of land restoration in Brazil in this essay. Brazil is the 5th largest country in the world and also has nearly 60 percent of Amazon river basin. Hence the conservation of land in Brazil is important globally. There are international concerns about the national policies and actions of Brazil which have a bearing on its forests and land. However, we note that there are interesting lessons from Brazil in this regard which other developing countries can learn.
