The problems associated with land tenure in Ecuador are long-standing and have been characterized by the relationship between access, use and ownership of land, and by the problems of peasant and indigenous families and communities. These problems are also characterized by the direct and visible relationship with sectors that own large amounts of land, have access to the country’s political and economic power, and define what is necessary for the countryside, its problems, its agendas and its development policies. This relationship has influenced legislative agenda of recent years, leading to the design of a new land law that reflects the proposals of power groups in government and the current state discourse.
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04 March 2022
Ecuador has elevated nature as a legal subject in its constitution - and still allows harmful copper mining. A young woman learns to fight back
Cenaida Guachagmira digs her pink fingernails deep into the damp, black earth. Her cardigan glows pink in the mist, mud sticks to her rubber boots.…
09 February 2022
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court, the country’s highest court, made the ruling on Feb. 4 after reviewing Sinangoe’s 2018 lawsuit, in which the community sued three government ministries for selling mining concessions on their territory without consultation. Provincial judges at the time ruled in…
19 November 2020
Los proyectos viales en la Amazonía podrían impulsar la deforestación de millones de hectáreas durante los próximos 20 años, dijeron investigadores ambientales en un informe.
La construcción o mejora de unos 12,000 kilómetros de vías en la selva amazónica de Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Perú y…
Besides the right to property, the 2008 Constitution includes several unique rights that affect land governance, such as food sovereignty as priority axis of public and agricultural policies, the rights of nature, and the rights to the Buen Vivir (good living).
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29 September 2022
Recuento del seminario web: la pandemia, el malestar social y la guerra resuenan en el Amazonas
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Tras los debates sobre la COP26 y el nexo entre la tecnología y la gobernanza de la tierra, el tercer seminario web de los Diálogos sobre la Tierra de 2022 adoptó una visión más amplia del…
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Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to take place in Quito, Ecuador, from 17 – 20 October 2016.
In Resolution 66/207 and in line with the bi-decennial cycle (1976, 1996 and 2016), the United Nations General Assembly decided to convene, the…