Patrícia Portales
Agência Brasil

Brasília - Between March 7 and 10, Brazil will host the 2nd International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (2ª Conferência Internacional sobre Reforma Agrária e Desenvolvimento Rural) (CIRADR). This is the first conference of its kind since a 1979 conference in Rome.

According to the Ministry of Agrarian Development, headed by Miguel Rossetto, who will lead the Brazilian delegation to the conference, all 193 member-nations of the UN have been invited to send participatants to the meeting in Porto Alegre.

Translation: Allen Bennett