Though the state might be the ultimate authority in deciding the fate of the land and its resources, it is nevertheless bound by obligations enshrined in the Constitution and laws of the land to ...

Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. Predictions indicate that an ...

Small family farmers waiting for years to obtain documents validating their land claims often need to pay a small bribe to speed up bureaucracy. More flagrant abuses of the land tenure system are ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land distribution in Latin America is the most unequal in the world where only one percent of the farms and estates control more than half of the region's ...

MANILA, Philippines – Agrarian reform advocates and human rights groups are among those who signed an online petition calling on the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to conduct genuine land ...