Ana Lúcia Caldas
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Porto Alegre – A concrete result of the 2nd International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development is the signing of an agreement by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries on the legal aspects of land ownership and management (Capacitação Regional sobre Regime de Propriedade e Gestão da Terra e Aspectos Legais Associados).

FAO, which will provide financing and technical assistance, decided to work through the umbrella CPLP using the existing structures in the member countries of the community and the fact that they all speak the same language, rather than make seven or eight individual agreements.

The participating countries are: Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, São Tome and Principe and Portugal.

Translation: Allen Bennett