Special Report - Social unrest in Latin America III - Land (ISSN 17414474)

A return to high concentration of land ownership in few hands is one of the factors stoking social unrest in the region: it is, in effect, a reversal of land reforms introduced years ago across Latin America — before most of them had met their objectives. Added to the unfulfilled demand for access to land is a newer one, for restrictions on the purchase of land by foreigners, which has become associated with the notion of ‘landgrabbing’, initially perceived in other regions as the result of higher global prices for foodstuffs in 2007-08 and as a threat to the vendor country’s food security.

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