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English translation: small farms

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Portuguese term or phrase:roças
English translation:small farms
Entered by: Luiza Modesto

22:01 Jun 1, 2010
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Architecture / planejamento urbano
Portuguese term or phrase: roças
"Os anos 60 vão encontrar essa região com roças e gado bovino. Havia poucas casas e alguns bares, porém com a implantação de bairros de alto padrão ...."
Maria Cristina Vasconcelos
Brazil
Local time: 00:24
small farms
Explanation:
Roça:

3 Bras. Pequena lavoura de mandioca, feijão, milho etc.: Cuidava de sua roça de sol a sol.
5 Bras. Pequena propriedade rural para cultivo de frutas e hortaliças.
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Luiza Modesto
Brazil
Local time: 00:24
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4small farms
Luiza Modesto
4 +1fields / grazing fields
Marlene Curtis
4smallholdings
Evans (X)
3farms
Ricardo Horta


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
fields / grazing fields


Explanation:

It could be cattle grazing fields.

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 23:24
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 295

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Claudio Mazotti: Desculpe-me, Marlene, mas creio q o termo "roça" geralmente é usado para as pequenas plantações de legumes e frutas, não necessariamente para gado
47 mins
agree  Paulo Horsky
14 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
small farms


Explanation:
Roça:

3 Bras. Pequena lavoura de mandioca, feijão, milho etc.: Cuidava de sua roça de sol a sol.
5 Bras. Pequena propriedade rural para cultivo de frutas e hortaliças.

Luiza Modesto
Brazil
Local time: 00:24
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti: perhaps "vegetable and fruit " small farms
49 mins
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agree  Carlos Quandt
4 hrs
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agree  Katarina Peters
4 hrs
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agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
11 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
farms


Explanation:
Uma sugestão

Ricardo Horta
Local time: 04:24
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
smallholdings


Explanation:
This would be the English equivalent, certainly in UK English.

See for instance:
http://www.interfacehs.sp.senac.br/images/artigos/60_pdf.pdf

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Note added at 10 hrs (2010-06-02 08:05:23 GMT)
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quoted in the above reference:

roça [smallholding], as they call the land their family occupies "between the Caribê River and the Do Poço River, in the area known as Tapera"

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Note added at 10 hrs (2010-06-02 08:09:16 GMT)
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From a scholarly article from the Universidade de Brasilia

“or on smallholdings, the roças” (or sitios in southern Brazil). The latter were dispersed agricultural units loosely connected to each other and to the towns."

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1153318


Evans (X)
Local time: 04:24
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48
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