indigenous land demarcation
BRAZIL HANDS OVER INDIGENOUS LAND DEMARCATION TO AGRICULTURE MINISTRY
01/07/2019
Update Volume
49
Update Issue
1

Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has issued an administrative decree that shifts responsibility for indigenous land demarcation from the government's indigenous affairs office to the ministry of agriculture. The decree also shifts authority over regulation of quilombola territory from the government's agrarian reform institute to the ministry.