In Brazil there exists a total of 5.834.779 agricultural holdings covering an area of 376.286. 49 thousand large property owners have 164 million hectares, in other words, an average of 40.5 thousand hectares each or almost half of the agricultural land in the country. 38.2 million people live in just under 7 million houses in rural areas. Such conditions are seen in the document as significantly helping to increase the rural exodus to the large urban centers. This exodus corresponded in the last 25 years to a total greater than the present day population of the Argentine.
Violence is also an integral part of the reality of rural Brazil.
This number compares with 46 in 1992. Until June of 1993, only 1057 settlements of rural landless families had been carried out in Brazil. Here only 122.599 families were benefited. Foreign groups increasingly own more and more Brazilian land. Against Indigenous Peoples Increases During 1993.