At a meeting of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America last week in Panama, the 21 hemisphere nations recommended agrarian reform “whenever appropriate.” ...

The demand for genuine agrarian reform surfaced again and again. In November 2004, 6,000 workers and family members staged a blockade of the hacienda’s sugar mill. President Gloria Arroyo ...

• Land Reform is the traditional third rail of left-of-center governments and social reform movements. • President Hugo Chavez’s plan is fundamentally different from other Latin American attempts at ...

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday announced during the 7th March of the Margaridas that his government would resume the National Agrarian Reform Program, albeit with priority for ...

A Long History of Land Conflict and Inequality. ... Campesinos groups do not anticipate radical agrarian reform, given the president¡s close ties to finca owners. The Agrarian Platform.

As a result, Incra devoted itself more to colonization than agrarian reform. Currently, only 10% of Brazil’s agricultural properties cover 73% of its arable land .

THE DESIGNATION by incoming President Rodrigo Duterte of Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano as his secretary of agrarian reform is welcome news for the Filipino peasantry, farmworkers and the rural poor.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LAND OWNERSHIP IN PHL During the pre-Spanish period, there was no such thing as private land ... like rice for example, which is currently planted in small plots for its production.

The agrarian reform program was embodied in the CARP law (RA 6658, 1987). When CARP expired after 20 years, a new enabling law was passed, an “extension with reform†or CARPER (RA 9700 ...