Abstract

URIBE KAFFURE, Sonia. Transformations of Tenancy and Land use in Rural Areas of Colombia Affected by the Armed Conflict. The Tibú's case, North of Santander (2000-2010). Estud. Socio-Juríd [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.1, pp.245-287. ISSN 0124-0579.  https://doi.org/dx.doi.org/10.12804/esj16.1.2014.06.

This article describes the changes in land tenure and land use in Tibú (Norte de Santander) between 2000 and 2010. It shows that those changes were highly concentrating, massive, and successively developed in two ways: a coercive one, operated by paramilitaries, and another one, operated by entrepreneurs and other land commissioners through an abnormal and unregulated market. I argue that both ways are explicatives of land grab, conduce to accumulation forms via dispossession, and that neither can be understood without accounting for a set of public policies and institutional designs promoted by the state.

Keywords : armed conflict; land grab; constraint; unregulated market.

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