InSight Crime: The arrest of a Bolivian minister for alleged bribery related to land trafficking highlights how this practice has fueled corruption in the country time and time again. Last week, Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo announced that his cabinet colleague and the Minister for Rural Development and Land, Edwin Ronald Characayo Villega, had been arrested along…
Tag: land ownership
Less land for the indigenous – Menos tierra para los indígenas
Luis Antezana, El Diario: Indigenous people own less land now than before The amount of land that peasants and indigenous people have is now less than what they owned before the application of the new agrarian legislation INRA, dictated by the government of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and prolonged in its validity by the Agrarian…
The World’s Biggest Legal Coca Industry Might Get Shut Down
Deborah Bonello reports for Vice: A right-wing power grab in Bolivia could spell the end of a system that has likely kept the drug war in check. The landlocked Andean nation of Bolivia is one of three countries in the world that produce the bulk of the world’s coca, the green leafy plant that is…
Illegal raids in Santa Cruz overwhelm agribusiness … and ruling government’s negative “role”
El Diario reports: Recurrence invasion to productive lands Illegal raids in Santa Cruz overwhelm agribusiness • There would be more than 136 productive properties affected by the actions of the so-called “land grabbers”, whose actions, in many cases vandalism, expose legal security and affect production, as well as future investments • A television program denounced…
No fair solution to the assaults on land tenure in Santa Cruz
En Editorial from El Diario: No fair solution to the assaults on land tenure in Santa Cruz In over thirty cattle farms in Santa Cruz, they are vainly expecting the authorities to compel on the assailants, to return those properties that vandalism grabbed, without respecting other people’s property or the rights of others; people who,…
Great international news for our natural resources and sustainable development!
Countries adopt global guidelines on tenure of land, forests, fisheries Historic international agreement on how tenure and access rights to natural resources key to food production should be handled A female farmer in Uganda. Women face particular hurdles in securing land rights. 11 May 2012, Rome – In a landmark decision the Committee on World Food…
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