given this small average size unsurprisingly family farms together only hold about of all land and produce about of the total value of agricultural production while commercial largescale farms dominate exportoriented agricultural production family farms accounts for of the food consumed domestically fao land ownership is a constitutional right in brazil where traditional private property indigenous customary tenancy and unchallenged possession of land are recognised by the government the four most important pieces of legislation concerning land rights in brazil are the land statute which regulates land tenure and specifies how the land reform programme is to be organised a law from that establishes land reform based on the former legislation the law of occupation that recognises squatter rights and finally the civil code which organises family inheritance possession and property rights these laws have helped to develop a relatively wellfunctioning land market system these policies are part of the umbrella of the zero hunger programme created in and subsequently of the extreme poverty plan of