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The new Land Law does not define “excess land”
Posted On 08 Jan 2016
The Plenary of the Assembly approved Thursday the Law on Rural Lands and Ancestral Territories, while maintaining the concept that a latifundium is a rural property of a large extension “inefficiently exploited.” Several changes were also made in sections regarding affectation, declaration of public utility and expropriation of land.
Assemblywoman Lourdes Tibán said that the law does not define the limit to understand what is the excess of land and therefore, abstained from voting in the Commission on Food Sovereignty and the plenary.
“They say that latifundium is when the land is excessively vast, while unproductive, but while productive it is not a latifundium. This is also related to the redistribution of land,” she explained.
