1/4 Despite the renewed consensus reached at ICARRD+20 this past February, where 28
States signed a roadmap for redistribution and the protection of family farming, the
reality on the ground reveals a deep political contradiction. Link: https://vertov14.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agrarian-counter-reforms.pdf
2/4 While international forums reaffirm the urgency of democratizing access to land, at the domestic level, across almost every region in the global analysis, an architecture of retrogression, of agrarian counterreform, is taking hold.
3/4 Under a range of ideological banners, some governments open legal channels to deepen concentration, while others dismantle, through administrative discretion, the safeguards that protect peasant, customary, and community tenure.
4/4 The paradox shows that today’s global consensus coexists with a national legal practice that moves, deliberately, in the opposite direction. Link: https://vertov14.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/agrarian-counter-reforms.pdf