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Emergency and Development: the Case of Imidugudu, Villagisation in Rwanda

January, 2000
Rwanda

To accommodate the needs of hundreds of thousands of returnees after war and fgenocide in 1994, the new Rwandan Government launched a settlement programme, Imidugudu. Since early 1997, this programme has targeted the entire rural population: all scattered households in the country had to be regrouped in villages. What started as a response to an emergency turned into an ambitious but controversial development programme. The programme has been implemented with support from international organizations, including UNHCR and numerous NGOs.

Policy Brief: The Implementation of Rwanda’s Expropriation Law and Outcomes on the Population

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2015
Rwanda

This Policy Brief summarizes the main findings and recommendations of qualitative and quantative research on implementation and outcomes of the 2007 Expropriation Law in Rwanda. Rwanda is developing at a remarkably rapid pace, and with that development has come a multitude of corresponding changes to the orientation and use of land throughout the country.

Returnees Land Access : Lessons from Rwanda

June, 2007
Rwanda

This background briefing reports on a study of land access for returnees in Rwanda, and the impacts of land access policies in the post-conflict period. It also seeks to understand better the roles international humanitarian agencies and NGOs have played, and how their performance can be improved. It is not suggested that Rwanda is typical, but rather that the centrality of land issues there has thrown up a revealing set of broader questions.

Tragadero Grande: Land, human rights, and international standards in the conflict between the Chaupe family and Minera Yanacocha

Reports & Research
September, 2016
Peru

This report presents the findings of the Yanacocha Independent Fact Finding Mission (the “Mission”), conducted between August 2015 and March 2016. The Mission was tasked with examining a conflict between a multinational gold mining company and a local campesino family, in the high Andes of northern Peru. At the root of the conflict is a dispute over a parcel of land called “Tragadero Grande”. Located within the Campesino Community of Sorochuco, Tragadero Grande falls within the footprint of a planned multi-billion dollar mining project called “Conga”.

“The Farmer Becomes the Criminal”

Reports & Research
November, 2016
Myanmar

In Burma, where 70 percent of people earn a living through agriculture, securing land is often equivalent to securing a livelihood. But instead of creating conditions for sustainable development, recent Burmese governments have enacted abusive laws, enforced poorly conceived policies, and encouraged corrupt land administration officials that have promoted the displacement of small-scale farmers and rural villagers.

Duitama Boyacá: Vereda San Luis

Reports & Research
June, 2014
Colombia

30 familias organizadas resisten la expulsión por parte de los hacendados, defendiendo la tierra donde han vivido. Luego de largas negociaciones, donde los campesinos resisten las acciones de los hacendados en su contra, se llega a un acuerdo y cada una de las 300 familias recibe una parcela de tierra, titulada familiarmente, en contraprestación por sus años de trabajo en las grandes haciendas

Granja Escuela Agroecológica Mutualitas y Mutualitos Bogotá, Colombia

Reports & Research
September, 2014
Colombia

Experiencia familiar de acceso y retorno a la tierra, encabezada por doña Rosa, mujer campesina que de niña llegó a Bogotá. En un barrio urbano, encuentra un basurero, habilitándolo para la agricultura agroecológica, cultivos orgánicos y uso de semillas nativas que se convierte en un espacio de encuentro y minga, donde se comparte saberes: la Granja Escuela Agroecológica Mutualitas y Mutualitos

Comunidad Indígena Sawhoyamaxa Historia de lucha y reivindicación territorial en el Chaco paraguayo

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Paraguay

En junio de 2014 sucede algo inédito en la historia de la lucha por la tierra en Paraguay: una comunidad indígena (Sawhoyamaxa), logra la restitución de las 14.404 hectáreas de tierras que hace más de 20 años viene reclamando como suyas. En 2006, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos había determinado que en justicia le pertenecía.

Memoria y reconstitución de la Comunidad Campesina Viscatámpata- Orccohuasi

Reports & Research
September, 2015
Peru

La violencia política entre el Estado peruano y un grupo levantado en armas (PCP-Sendero Luminoso) obligó a los habitantes de Viscatámpata a un desplazamiento forzado para salvar sus vidas. El caso relata la historia del retorno y recuperación de la tierra abandonada en la provincia de Huanta, departamento de Ayacucho, Perú.

Consejo Comunitario de La Alsacia: lucha constante por la permanencia y defensa del territorio

Reports & Research
November, 2015
Colombia

Se trata del caso de la población afro de La Alsacia, que se encuentra organizada como Empresa Comunitaria para promover el desarrollo de la comunidad en términos productivos, culturales y organizacionales, a parir de haber accedido a la tierra colectivamente luego de sufrir desplazamientos por la violencia en Colombia.