Chairs:

• Margarita Varón margaritavaron@colombiarural.com.co
• Rocío Peña rocio.pena@urosario.edu.co
• Tatiana Alfonso tatianaalfonso@gmail.com
• Héctor Santaella Quintero hector.santaella@uexternado.edu.co
• José Dantés Díaz Amberis josedantes@hotmail.com
• Orlando Vignolo Cueva Orlando.vignolo@udep.edu.pe

SPEAKERS

Laura Sofía

Ramirez Rivero

The unequal distribution of rural land and the high levels of informality in land tenure are structural problems in Latin American countries. In recent years, the demands of various social movements, the growing global demand for commodities, and the expansion of the idea of the social rule of law in the region’s constitutions have led States—after years of numerous failed agrarian reform attempts—to implement new approaches to the agrarian question.

In this context, in Peru, the emphasis on property formalization and agribusiness is evident; in the Dominican Republic, the focus has been placed on formalizing peasant property and on the debate about how to integrate this population into the productive process of the economic system; in Colombia, meanwhile, multiple legal regimes coexist that seek to fulfill the goals of the Final Agreement signed with the FARC-EP in 2016, and discussions are underway on how to reconcile the need to promote sustained, sustainable, and inclusive rural development within diverse territorial realities.

This multiplicity and diversity of perspectives on rural land formalization opens up a debate on the various conceptions of constitutional property that underlie each of these legal systems, the ways in which they are implemented through the formalization policies adopted by each State, and the impact these have on rural communities.