This paper evaluates the importance of tobacco cultivation in Latin America. To this end the main variables of the sector will be analyzed, such as the quantity and value of production, the number of cultivated hectares and crop yields. The value of the sector as export strength is also studied....

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo estudia el inicio y la reciente expansión de los cultivos de uso ilícito en los territorios colectivos de las comunidades afrocolombianas en la región del Pacífico colombiano.Analizamos si la organización comunitaria y el liderazgo pueden explicar las...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo estudia el cultivo del tabaco en América Latina, primer eslabón de la cadena de producción. Explorando diferentes variables hasta 2014 donde la información lo permita, se estudia la cantidad y el valor de la producción, el número de hectáreas cultivadas, el...

I estimate the effect of collective property rights on development in rural Colombia in the context of a case study. In the 1990s, the Colombian government started one of the most ambitious land re-orderings in Latin America, which titled collective property rights to Afro-Colombian communities...

Designing victims' reparation policies and solving agrarian disputes are fundamental aspects to build peace after a civil conflict. In 2014, a ceasefire with the oldest Latin-American guerrilla took place in Colombia and a peace agreement was signed in 2016. The Land Restitution Policy (LRP)...

Spanish Abstract: Preservar los Bosques Andinos de Robles es de gran importancia dado su valor intrínseco y los servicios ecosistémicos ofrecidos que favorecen el bienestar humano. No obstante, las prácticas de ganadería extensiva en el territorio nacional generan presión sobre su...

During the mid-1990s, one of the most ambitious land reforms in recent decades took place in Colombia. The reform recognized collective land rights of 5 million hectares by Afro-Colombian groups, with the dual goals of improving livelihoods and preserving valuable ecosystems. We estimate the...

This paper considers the identification and estimation of a spatial hedonic price model including the variable distance between the local properties and the nearest station of the massive transportation system Transmilenio (TM) in Bogotá, Colombia. We estimate a model to explain variations in...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo estima la efectividad de las inversiones permanentes en predios sobre la formalización de tierras de hogares rurales, en el contexto de la ley de reforma agraria colombiana. Utilizando un modelo de probabilidad lineal con efectos fijos de hogar, se encuentra que...

The paper analyzes the effects of land reform on social development - poverty and land distribution - at the local level. Land reform in Colombia, understood as the allocation of public land to peasant, has granted 23 million hectares which comprises around 20% of Colombian territory and about...