THIS means the great landed estates will be broken up throughout Latin America,” said a top U.S. sugar broker last week, as Fidel Castro signed his agrarian reform decree. The Castro bill quickened ...

Residents of a landless workers’ settlement in Anapu, Pará state, in Brazil’s Amazon region, accuse the federal government of favoring large landowners, land-grabbers and corporations at the expense ...

Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. Author Timothy J. Killeen is an ...

More than 500 farmers marched on the streets of Philippine capital Manila to express their grievances over government’s failure to properly implement an agrarian reform scheme adopted 36 years ago.

Start a Latin American reformer talking, and he will begin reciting the region’s needs almost by rote: schools, houses, hospitals — and, always, land reform. As his example of land reform, he ...

MANILA – Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III has ordered an immediate and thorough investigation into allegations ...

When the Peoples’ Power movement brought down Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, land reform was one of its most important demands. But even after Corazon Aquino had been elected President ...

TAGUM CITY, Philippines (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A dozen bamboo and tarpaulin tents are pitched on the pavement, festooned with washing and banners - the department in charge of agrarian reform ...