Colombia 2026, agrarian reform, and gender equality: Will it be the right time?
In February 2026, an International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development will be held in Cartagena, Colombia, which will follow the one organized by FAO in Brazil in March 2006 (ICARRD). Having been part of the executive secretariat of ICARRD, where we had to manage the complicated internal resistance of the FAO, the doubts of the peasant movements, the pressures of the World Bank to direct it towards the “mainstream” of land markets, I take the liberty of writing some reflections and suggestions in view of the next event.