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Dr George Meszaros was awarded an £11,000 grant by the Brazil Partnership Development Fund 2011-12. This is for a two year project, entitled Land Futures: the law, political economy and socio-legal impacts of contemporary transformation in Brazilian land tenure and use patterns. Initially this will support the development of a network with a series of partner institutions including the Federal and Catholic Universities of Parana and the University of Brasilia, later (2012) expanding to other Brazilian agencies including (the Institute for colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA)) the (Institute of Applied Economic Research, IPEA) and the Getulio Vargas foundation’s Centre of Agricultural Studies. The aim of the project is to establish a high quality multi-disciplinary network with Brazilian researchers and practitioners looking at land futures issues, but also to develop a multi-disciplinary research and publication cluster here at ÌÇÐÄTV University.