THIS means the great landed estates will be broken up throughout Latin America,” said a top U.S. sugar broker last week, as Fidel Castro signed his agrarian reform decree. The Castro bill quickened ...
Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. Author Timothy J. Killeen is an ...
Start a Latin American reformer talking, and he will begin reciting the region’s needs almost by rote: schools, houses, hospitals — and, always, land reform. As his example of land reform, he ...
Most land reforms have involved transferring rights of ownership from wealthy landlords to poor, small-scale farmers working the land under various kinds of tenancy arrangements. These are often ...
Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III leads a dialogue with farmers from the Elfleda Marcelo Properties in Barangay San Mariano, San Antonio, Nueva Ecija. (Maria Asumpta Estefanie C.
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Conrado M. Estrella III will present the Department’s major land reform accomplishments and forward-looking, investment-oriented reforms that directly ...
Marc Wegerif receives research funding from the DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS). He is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Pretoria and a Principal ...
The Indonesian government and civil society groups signed a joint statement on the first day of the Asia Land Forum marking a shared commitment to fast-track agrarian reform aimed at alleviating ...