Recent advances in the integration of Registration and Cadaster in Brazil: the role of SIGEF
Reydon, Bastiaan Philip et al.
Historically, the reality of land ownership in Brazil has been marked by the existence of formal regulation, though not applied across the board, causing the rules of land access to be rather fragile and inchoate. To the present day, both urban and rural land only have controls which attempt to guarantee the property, however they regulate neither property nor possession, let alone its use. If today we still have no cadaster for private real estate nor for public land (vacant or otherwise), there is no adequate form of social regulation that can bring about legal security and social justice. Therefore, given this picture, land is capable of being used in any way by owners and squatters, ranging from speculation to production and even predatory use. Until now there has been no notion of lands belonging to the State through the various mechanisms in existence, as not even the vacant lands defined in the 1850 Land Law have been itemized in detail. Thus the possibility of appropriation remained and, subsequently, the regularization of possession, enabling the occupation of public land and therefore rendering the establishment of a cadaster inviable (Reydon, 2011). In recent times, however, various government actions have sought to improve information of the real estate cadaster in the country. Reydon (2013) demonstrated that, with Law 10267/2001, a reasonably accurate cadaster of rural property in Brazil was started, leading to over 60% of the land surface being georeferenced and registered. Another innovation was implemented in 2013 with the creation of SIGEF, a self-updating system of georeferencing of certified property.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015
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