This Regional Law establishes minimum and maximum land areas of plots of land that can be allotted to citizens in ownership out of stock of public or municipal land for farming, gardening, horticulture, stockbreeding and suburban housing construction, including allotment of the aforesaid plots of land free of charge in cases envisaged by Land Code. Maximum land area that can be allotted for farming shall not exceed 10 percent of total available agricultural land area within the boundaries of a municipal unit at the moment of allotment.

The scope of this Regional Law shall be to increase the role of private subsidiary smallholding of citizens in raising production of agricultural commodities and it establishes the forms of state support of subsidiary smallholding. Subsidiary smallholding shall be considered a form of non-enterpreneurial activity for production and processing of agricultural commodities that shall be exclusive property of citizens conducting subsidiary smallholding.

This Regional Law establishes legal, economic and social grounds for constituting and functioning of peasant farms, including family farms. Plots of agricultural land can be allotted (free of charge or for payment) or purchased in ownership by peasant farms and family farms.

This Regional Law establishes maximum land areas that can be allotted in ownership to citizens out of stock of public land for farming, gardening, horticulture, stockbreeding and suburban housing construction. Allocation of the aforesaid land parcels to citizens shall be performed by state executive body or local government. Maximum land areas shall be set forth as follows: (a) for farming – up to 150 ha of agricultural land; (b) for gardening and horticulture - up to 0,4 ha; (c) for stockbreeding – up to 10 ha; and (d) for suburban housing construction – up to 0,5 ha.

La présente loi a pour objectif, en conformité avec les principes de la politique agricole commune, de promouvoir une agriculture multifonctionnelle, durable et compétitive en liaison avec un développement intégré des zones rurales. Le texte comprend 4 titres répartis en 69 articles: Objectif et définitions (Ier); Encouragement à l’adaptation et au développement du secteur agricole (II).

This Regional Law classifies protected categories of citizens that shall have the right to allotment on condition of ownership of public and municipal land free of charge related to urban land for individual housing construction and agricultural land for subsistence farming.

This Law has been formulated in accordance with the Constitution for the purpose of stabilizing and perfecting the two-level operation system, which is based the responsibility system of contracting by households supplemented by unified management, entitling the peasants to a long-term and guaranteed right to the use of land, protecting the legal rights and interests of the parties of the contracting of rural land, so as to improve the development of agriculture and the rural economy and stabilize the rural areas.

This Regional Law shall be applicable to all gardening, horticultural and subsistence farming non-commercial organizations, non-governmental entities and cooperatives. It regulates the issues of state registration of the aforesaid entities and establishes legal status thereof. Citizens shall be granted the right to carry our gardening, horticulture and subsistence farming either as cooperatives and associations or individually. Farmers must develop their land plots for agricultural purposes within three years since the date of allotment and ensure purposeful use of land plots.

This Act creates the Fund for Lands and Agricultural Reform - 'Banco da Terra' aimed to give financial assistance in order to enforce rural programmes. It consists of 14 articles specifying the requirements to be satisfied in order to obtain these incentives for agricultural development. Beneficiaries of this financial assistance programme are: farmers non-owners (working under concession, leasing, etc. for more than 5 years in agro-zootechnics); owners of agricultural lands for family sustenance (according to article 4 of Law No. 4.504 of 30 November 1964).

La presente Ley tiene por objeto el fomento, desarrollo y protección integrales del sector agrario. Para la ejecución de la política agraria (cap. IV), mediante el artículo 23, se crea el Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Agrario (INDA), como entidad de derecho público, con ámbito nacional, personalidad jurídica y patrimonio propio, adscrito al Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería. El INDA substituye en sus funciones al Instituto Ecuatoriano de Reforma Agraria (IERAC).

The Law consists of 33 articles and is divided into four Chapters: General provisions (1); The Citizens' land (2); Lands belonging to the State, municipalities, cooperative farms and other legal persons (3); and Land property authorities (4).The Law regulates the ownership and use of agricultural lands. With the exception of game reserves and other nature protected areas with national and international significance, ownership is returned to owners whose land was taken under the April 1946 Law of landownership.

The purpose of this Law is the determination, delimitation, allocation of areas such as ranges, pastures, wintersheds (winter range lands) or highlands to juridical entities like villages or municipalities and making use of them in a manner abiding by the rules, increasing or sustaining productivity through maintenance and improvement, controlling that use continuously, protecting them and changing their purpose of use when necessary. The determination, delimitation and allocation of ranges, highlands and wintersheds are undertaken by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.