Colombia’s ranchers federation threatens to mobilize over land reform
Colombia’s controversial ranchers’ federation Fedegan suggested to mobilize...
Tag: land reform
UN to monitor indigenous rights and land reform in Colombia
The United Nations will expand its monitoring of the implementation of a 2016 peace deal between...
Colombia to buy 3M hectares of arable land for rural reform
Colombia’s government agreed to purchase 3 million hectares in arable land from large...
Understanding the causes of Colombia’s conflict: land ownership
At the very heart of violence and armed conflict in Colombia is land. This has been the case since...
Colombia’s land agency illegally sold State properties: comptroller
Large-scale misallocations of Colombia’s “forgotten territories” have caught the...
Uribe’s Centro Democratico opposes foreign purchase of Colombia’s land
Former President Alvaro Uribe announced at a Monday press conference that he and his party, the...
‘Modest achievements’ so far in peace talks: FARC
The chief negotiator of Colombia’s main rebel group FARC has said that the peace talks between the...
Colombian govt, FARC ‘close’ to land reform agreement
The government’s chief negotiator in the peace talks Wednesday announced an agreement is close to...
Land restitution activists under threat
The death and suspected murder of a land restitution leader on Wednesday has shone a spotlight on the dangers faced by Colombian land reform activists. The body of Hermes Vidal Osorio was found in a remote part of the northern...
‘Historic’ land restitution ruling in Colombia
In a historic ruling, the Colombian State has given land rights to the family of a “missing” member of the FARC linked, now-defunct, Patriotic Union political party. In a ruling on Tuesday, three magistrates ordered...
FARC presence at land reform forum not welcome: senate president
Colombia’s senate president threatens the arrest of rebel group FARC members should they attend a land reform forum in the southern department of Caqueta. On Friday and Saturday around 2,000 farmers will gather in San...
FARC, Colombia govt fails to present agreement on agrarian reform
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC and government negotiators failed on Thursday to present a common agreement on land reform, the first point of six on the agenda at the ongoing peace talks in Havana, Cuba. Despite the...
