Agreement between Govt of Colombia and FARC... Redistribute land (11.5M sq miles) to peasants

[Catherina]

4. Colombia will redistribute farmland of some 11,500 square miles – an area larger than Massachusetts

Colombia will redistribute farmland of some 11,500 square miles – an area larger than the state of Massachusetts – as part of an eventual peace deal with the country’s largest rebel group FARC, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday.

If and when an agreement is finalized, the land will be given to some 250,000 farmers who had lost their land at some point in Colombia’s almost-50-year armed conflict between rebels, paramilitaries and state, said the daily. The agriculture land reform of 3% of Colombia’s national territory is reportedly to be executed in a period of 10 years.

The Colombian government has already begun the redistribution of 7,700 square miles of farmland as part of the program to return land to displaced who had their land stolen by illegal armed groups, who then either kept the land or sold the land legally through corrupt government officials to ranchers and businesses.

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According to El Tiempo, the nearly complete deal goes further than the return of stolen land, and will include redistributing land legally owned by ranchers, but considered underused. The United Nations in 2011 recommended such land reform to decrease extreme poverty in rural Colombia

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http://colombiareports.com/colombia-peace-deal-to-include-redistribution-of-11-5-million-square-miles/