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President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist leader, promised his government would acquire 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land for victims of the country's six-decade conflict, to ...

Colombia Orders Return of Stolen Farmland. U.S. Pact Is Motivation For Move, Critics Say. March 22, 2009. By Juan Forero. CARMEN DEL DARIEN, Colombia -- As with so many crimes of war, ...

In Colombia, land occupations raise tensions and spook investors. By Nelson Bocanegra. September 30, 2022 8:14 AM UTC Updated September 30, 2022 Item 1 of 5 Workers of a sugar mill ...

The result, nearly 30% of all farm land in Colombia was owned by the top 0.2%, according to conflict investigators, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Landless peasants were locked into ...

In Colombia, Indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendant groups have escalated land occupations in recent months, seeking to ensure the government carries out long-standing land redistribution promises.

Social justice charity Oxfam is accusing agribusiness giant Cargill of using “36 shell companies” to acquire nearly 130,000 acres of farmland in Colombia, evading that nation’s limits on ...

Less than 1% of Colombian farmland is insured, less than any other Latin American country, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, El Espectador reported Friday. While so many ...

With an estimated 360,000 displaced by decades of war, a remarkable land-restitution program is wading through thousands of largely-undocumented claims: ‘It’s not easy, but it’s just’ ...

Colombia wants to buy land from private owners and redistribute it among the poor after the country’s 50-year-old is over, the government announced.

MONTERIA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist leader, promised his government would acquire 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land for victims of the ...