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    Property Rights and Resource Governance Guatemala

    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Latin America and the Caribbean, Guatemala
    Land & Investments
    Land in post-conflict settings
    land governance
    property law
    agrarian reform
    land conflicts

    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.

  2. Library Resource

    La repercusión de la tenencia de la tierra en el respeto a los derechos humanos sociales y económicos de los guatemaltecos

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Latin America and the Caribbean, Guatemala
    Land Degradation & Tenure
    Land in post-conflict settings
    land reform
    agrarian reform
    land tenure
    government

    La reforma agraria y las invasiones a fincas privadas o del gobierno son temas tratados desde hace mucho tiempo en Guatemala; se han discutido desde la fallida reforma agraria impulsada por el ex presidente Juan Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán hasta la actualidad. Este artículo inicia con una sucinta referencia a la evolución histórica del tema de la tenencia de la tierra en Guatemala y analiza el papel desempeñado por los gobiernos de turno.

  3. Library Resource

    Land and development in Latin America : openings for policy research

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2004
    Brazil, South America, Central America, Northern America
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    agrarian reform
    land reform
    land tenure

    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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    La estructura agraria y el campesinado en El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras

    Reports & Research
    September, 2001
    Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    agrarian reform
    agrarian structure
    land tenure

    Resumen
    El sector rural y agropecuario de Guatemala, Honduras y El
    Salvador sigue manteniendo diferencias marcadas entre un subsector moderno y muy
    tecnificado y otro, más numeroso, con baja eficiencia en el aprovechamiento de
    los recursos. Este contraste provoca una incapacidad para cubrir las necesidades
    en alimentos de la población, acelera el ritmo de degradación de los recursos
    naturales, genera desempleo y eleva los indicadores de pobreza rural.
    En la estructura agraria de estos países se observa aún una

  9. Library Resource

    In the name of the land : organization, transnationalism, and the culture of the state in a Mexican Ejido

    Reports & Research
    December, 1998
    Mexico
    agrarian reform
    land reform
    land ownership
    land management
    farmers
    rural development

    <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.

  10. Library Resource

    The human right to food in Guatemala

    January, 2005
    Guatemala, Latin America and the Caribbean
    Land & Food Security
    food security
    land tenure
    land rights
    land reform
    agrarian reform

    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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