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Background and Links
8/9/2006
January 2006
Land Conflict Under the Berger Administration
Jennifer Mizgata, NISGUA
A History of
Land in
Backgrounder
Part I: The Agrarian Question in
Land Research Action Network
Backgrounder
Part II: The Agrarian Question in
Land Research Action Network
The Struggle
for Land in
ZNET:
Links
Formed in 1978, the Comite de Unidad Campesino (CUC) continues to be one of the leading Guatemalan civil society groups working for just land reform.
Scoping
Study on Land Policy Research in
After being
relegated to the margins of development debates for over a decade, land policy
has moved rapidly up the international agenda in recent years. In
Land Action Research Network's Guatemala Page
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