In Guatemala, a history of discrimination and inequality of opportunity led to a 36-year conflict that finally subsided with a Peace Agreement in 1996. Improvements since then have prevented a return to conflict and begun to create the conditions for sustained stability. However, the persistence of substantial inequality constitutes a risk factor for future stability and constrains Guatemala’s growth potential. Land distribution is highly unequal. The largest 2.5% of farms occupy nearly two-thirds of agricultural land while 90% of the farms are on only one-sixth of the agricultural land.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Latin America and the Caribbean, Guatemala
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2003Brazil
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Brazil, South America, Central America, Northern America
Effective land policy reform is strewn with complexities and pitfalls. The paper focuses on land tenure, access and use in rural settings, and suggests that Latin America is home to some worrisome trends as well as the rich array of initiatives on land issues. By surveying the literature and examining the issues this study points to areas needing attention from researchers and policymakers.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1976Ecuador
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En: Estudio económico de América Latina, 1966 - E/CN.12/767/Rev.1 - 1967 - p. 367-436
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMay, 2011South America, BrazilIn this beginning of century, Brazil has, on one hand, a high economic growth, strong institutions in various areas and improvement of social situation, but, on the other hand, the rural and urban land situation is still very precarious, with elementary issues that are not resolved and that most developed countries solved them still in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1998Mexico
<p>This study is based on research carried out during several periods from mid 1991 to mid 1995 in the ejido La Canoa in Jalisco, western Mexico, and in several government agencies. The study focuses in particular on the period between the 1930s and 1992 when the Mexican agrarian law was fundamentally changed.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2005Brazil, Philippines, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Asia, Oceania
Today, many rural poor Filipinos are using state law to try to claim land rights. In spite of the availability of a much stronger set of legal resources than ever before, claiming legal land rights remains difficult. Some argue these difficulties are a reason to turn away from state-led land reform and toward a market-assisted land reform (MALR) model.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2005Guatemala, Latin America and the Caribbean
This paper presents an analysis of the actions and omissions of the Guatemala State in respect to its obligations under the human right to food, and also refers to several paradigmatic cases of violations of the right to food within the context of the indigenous population and land and labour conflicts.
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