Image: Poster “For Peace with Social and Environmental Justice — Turning the Chicoral Pact Around" by Luis Baquero

In February 2025, over 5,000 peasant, Indigenous, and Afro-descendant leaders gathered in Chicoral, Tolima – a small town in the plains of an Andean valley in Colombia. Today, it is known as an agricultural production hub, but in 1972, it became infamous as the site where political and landowning elites struck a deal to shut down agrarian reform – entrenching land inequality and silencing the voices of the rural poor for generations.

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BY NOFALIA NURFITRIANI AND APRILIA AMBARWATI

Original source: https://indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/does-indonesia-really-need-a-land-bank/

A really important report from the International Land Coalition and Oxfam is just out called ‘Uneven Ground: Land Inequality at the Heart of Unequal Societies’, along with 17 supporting papers. Through new analysis it shows that land inequality is even larger than previously thought, and that this has dramatic effects on poor people’s livelihoods, particularly those of women and young people.

Land distribution is an issue innately tied to inequality throughout the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, which is considered the most unequal region in the world. This inequality ranges from wealth disparity and political corruption to gender discrimination in labor practices and the exploitation of natural resources.

Disabled people have been increasingly recognised as the most marginalised group in any society. This group faces various structural, political and systemic barriers hindering their access, participation and contribution in the economy.

By Stephanie Burgos, Oxfam America, Government Affairs Associate Director for Latin America, Land Rights and Trade

Colombia has the most unequal distribution of land in Latin America, yet equitable access to land is a decisive factor for consolidating peace in Colombia.