Colombia
Inequities in land tenure have existed throughout the history of Colombia. This is primarily due to competing interests between small landholdings (minifundios) and large estates (latifundios); between peasants and landowners.
Socio-economic indicators
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Total population
49,648,685
Urban population
80.8 %
Land-related indicators
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Agricultural land
40.3 %
Perceived tenure security
64.8 %
Women owning land
2.5 %
Area in deals
617,830 ha
News
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Job Opportunity: Project Manager Knowledge Management of the LAND-at-scale Programme at LANDac
11 June 2021
LANDac is looking for an enthusiastic, goal-oriented Project Manager who has affinity with the field of land governance and development.
‘We guard the forest’: Carbon markets without community recognition not viable
4 June 2021
Researchers looked at 31 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America that hold almost 70% of the world’s tropical forests and 62% of the total feasible natural climate solution potential, and found that most of the tropical forested countries looking to benefit from carbon markets still need to…
Legal mining increasingly ravages forests in Colombia
28 May 2021
Colombia is the second most biodiverse country in the world and around half of its land territory is forest-covered. Deforestation is one of the biggest worldwide threats not only for biodiversity but also for climate. In fact, removing trees by burning them or then letting them decompose in their…
Colombia
projects
Land for Prosperity Activity in Colombia
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
<p>The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Land for Prosperity Activity, supports the Government of Colombia (GOC) in improving the conditions of rural households to achieve licit economic development through land tenure strengthening</p>
Support for "Victims and Land Restitution" Act of June 2011
Value: $262,000.00
Donors: Agence Française de Développement
Integrated program to improve informal settlements in Medellin
Donors: Agence Française de Développement
Biodiversity and Protected Areas Program - LifeWeb 2
Value: $2,460,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Blogs
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Land Formalization Goes Live
7 May 2021
A Colombian Mayor surprises her constituents with land titles and uses live video and social media to spread civic messages about formalizing land tenure Fuentedeoro’s Mayor, Patricia Mancera, took the world on a digital tour of her town. On Monday last week, Mancera’s team went live on Facebook,…
Events
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Webinar on COVID-19 and Tenure Security
9th Capitalization Meeting of the EU Land Governance Programme 3 NOVEMBER 2020, 10.00 – 11.30 CET (9.00 – 10.30 GMT) Project implementation in all countries and at the transversal level have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Anecdotal evidence from many countries suggest that the pandemic…
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