Several members of AGTER participated in the Conference on Land Refoms and Management of Natural Resources in Africa and Latin America, which was organised in Lleida (Spain) in November 2010. Pierre Merlet presented the paper that can be downloaded below, underlining the interest of legal pluralism approach to have a new look at the Sandinista Agrarian Reform. Abstract Before the 1980’s state-led agrarian reform in Nicaragua, the country was characterized by a very unequal distribution of (...)

The main documents drafted during the World Forum on Agrarian Reform (WFAR) Pascual Carrion, which was held in Valencia (Spain) from December 4-8, 2004, are presented herein. Please consult the WFAR’s official site for more information about this event. Documentary videos filmed during the Forum and interviews with some of the participants from around the world are available on their site. The Acts of the Forum The Acts of the Forum were drafted and published in Spanish by CERAI, the (...)

Twenty-seven years after the last conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (1979) and the writing of the Peasants’ Charter, the FAO, in partnership with the Brazilian government, organized in 2006 a new world conference on this theme. In order to prepare the discussion, the FAO asked some experts on land issues and rural development to write the issue documents of the conference. Two members of AGTER, Michel MERLET and Vicent GARCES, and a partner, Samuel THIRION, have been (...)