But it shows that in the one great landless country of seafarers, the association went far deeper than it might seem.
Conversely, in some tropical countries, landless individuals turn up, cut down a piece of forest they do not own, and squat on it.
The benefits of such increased productivity will flow through to rice-growing countries' landless rural and urban poor, all of whom (1) are net consumers of rice and (2) spend a large proportion of their income on rice.
A former bishop, President Lugo promised to help the poor and landless in a country marked by huge inequalities of race, income and land ownership.
China made lucrative inroads into Zimbabwe in the wake of Mugabe's decision, in 2000, to "empower" the country's landless black majority by violently divesting the country's white farmers of their land (at the time, they were the backbone of the country's thriving agricultural economy).
The array of social tensions plaguing the country, from landless peasants and disgruntled "Lugo-ites" and left-wing guerrillas, will worsen.
He focused on the redistribution of white-owned farms to landless blacks in a country that was increasingly urban and preoccupied with joblessness and falling wages.
Perreira, 31, is a child of the country's landless poor.
The domestic water buffalo is a major source of meat, draught, hide and employment to the marginal farmers and landless labourers in many Asian countries.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government has shown an indulgent attitude to violations of property rights elsewhere in the country by the Landless Movement, making it an unlikely guardian of them now.
