This paper addresses the interaction between the application of environmental laws and the stability of beneficiary families in agrarian reform settlements, in a context of increasing environmental concerns pressured by climate change. It compares two types of land regulation in the Amazon – settlement projects and sustainable development projects. It examines four main issues: forms of accessing...
El estudio reconstruye el ciclo que ya se va haciendo común en los países de la hoya amazónica: la concesión minera, la permisividad estatal y el conflicto social.
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Generalmente, en los procesos de concentración de tierras la gran empresa suele desplazar a la pequeña y la mediana economía campesina. Este documento, referido a la actividad lechera del Uruguay, presenta un caso inverso; es decir, cómo un sector de pequeños productores, inclusive dentro de un proceso de concentración de la tierra, logra conservar la propiedad gracias a la aplicación de...
This study examines how land ownership in Peru has been concentrated over the past decade by analysing interactions between campesinos, the State and private capital. It describes the structure of land tenure and ownership resulting from agrarian reform and how new legislation has favoured private investment over the rights of small landowners and indigenous communities. It examines the extent of...
El documento presenta los cambios en la valoración y el uso de la tierra y el agua en una comunidad campesina andina del norte del Perú, Michiquillay, en el contexto del inicio de operaciones de exploración y explotación minera en dicha zona por parte de una gran empresa extranjera, la Anglo American.
This brief focuses on the main finding and recommendation of “The Tragedy of Public Lands: Understanding the Fate of the Commons under Global Commercial Pressure” by Liz Alden Wily, a contributing paper to the ILC Commercial Pressures on Land Global Research Project.
The International Land Coalition (ILC)’s Commercial Pressures on Land initiative aims to support the efforts of ILC members and other stakeholders to influence global, regional, and national processes to enable secure and equitable access to land for poor women and men in the face of increasing commercial demand. Its global research contains a careful and focused analysis of the gendered impacts...
The recent attention given to the growing large-scale acquisition or leasing of public and private lands by commercial investors fails to pay attention to the extensive practice of and current trends in the leasing of industrial-scale forest concessions in forest lands claimed by the state. There are important lessons to be learned from assessment of these concessions, as well as important...
Dominant arguments about women’s land access stress the vulnerability of single women’s land rights in customary tenure areas. The vulnerability is based on long-held assumptions about customary tenure land governance, land use and gender relations. The paper seeks to contribute to the debate on customary tenure area land access, landlessness and understanding customary tenure evolution. Although...
