Under President Gustavo Petro, Colombia has made unprecedented progress in agrarian reform, distributing 570,000 hectares of land to peasants. The government has also reclaimed illegally occupied land ...

Land reform dates back to Roman times and the agrarian laws passed by the Senate around 133 BC, which indirectly led to the undoing of the Roman Republic and presaged the emergence of feudalism. In ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva takes a sip of coffee during a year-end press conference at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (Credit: Eraldo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Land tenure is the relationship, defined in law and customs, that people as individuals or groups have with land. It involves a ...

Thousands of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Eastern Visayas have received Certificates of Condonation with Release ...

The elusive land reforms in the country hang in the balance following piecemeal budgetary allocations to the National Land Commission, writes HAROLD AYODO It is an open secret that land has been an ...

JERUSALEM — Over the past month, Israel’s Security Cabinet has approved sweeping changes that will affect the purchase and use of land in the West Bank. Palestinians — including the approximately 1% ...

Mongabay has begun 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 ...

To Guatemala’s backlands, torn by bitter years of a Communist-written land reform that set peasant against landholder, last week came a quietly revolutionary reform of the reform. Going well beyond ...

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 ...

All of this suggests that “radical economic transformation” as applied to land reform means not mass redistribution, but ...