Colombian government and FARC reach deal on agrarian reform

May 26, 2013
Colombian government and FARC reach deal on agrarian reform
posted by Adriaan Alsema

Negotiators of Colombia’s government and the country’s largest rebel group FARC on Sunday signed an agreement on agrarian reform, the first and allegedly the hardest of three issues that must be tackled before signing a deal to end almost 50 years of guerrilla violence.

In a joint press conference, the two negotiating teams said they had reached full agreement on the following points that had already been formulated in the initial agreement to begin formal pace talks:

•Access and use of land. Wastelands. Formalization of property. Agricultural border and protection of reserve zones
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•Programs of development with a territorial focus.

•Infrastructure and land improvement.

•Social development: health, education, housing, eradication of poverty.

•Stimulus to agricultural production and the economy of solidarity and cooperation. Technical assistance. Subsidies. Credit. Generation of income. Marketing. Labor formalization.

•Food security system.

According to a joint press release, the negotiators said the deal will lead to “radical transformations of Colombia’s rural and agrarian reality with equality and democracy.”

The deal includes a redistribution of land through a Lands for Peace Fund that is supposed to distribute land in such a way that it diminishes poverty and inequality on Colombia’s countryside.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombian-government-and-farc-reach-deal-on-agriarian-reform/