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Colombia plans to buy land from wealthy owners to give to the poor


Rob Waugh for Metro.co.uk


Tuesday 4 Aug 2015 1:39 pm


 


Colombia wants to buy land back from wealthy private owners and redistribute it among the poor, as the country comes out of five decades of conflict.


Agriculture Minister Aurelio Iragorri told the El Tiempo newspaper that the idea was to create a ‘land bank’ for the needy.


The proposal aims to acquire farmland which isn’t being used – estimated to total 2.5 million acres in the country – and offer it to poor families.


Read more here on Metro.co.uk.


See the original interview in Spanish on the website of El Tiempo newspaper.


Photo by Luis Alejandro Bernal Romero. Land prepared for planting in Turmeque, Boyaca, Colombia. Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 2.0

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