Brazil’s land registry holds farmers accountable, but enables deforestation

Mongabay
Aug 21, 2025, 12:00 pm170 pts
The CAR is an obligatory land registry for all rural properties in Brazil. The CAR was created because the national rural land registry (Sistema Nacional de Cadastro Rural (SNCR) developed by INCRA, was (and remains) incomplete. Consequently, the government created the CAR as a parallel (ad hoc) mechanism to…

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