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A land occupation in the Polochic Valley. Occupying groups usually plant corn to stake out the area of their claim and to produce food on the contested land.
73-year-old Bonifacio Valle Soto dries coffee on the Salvador Xolhuitz plantation he and 88 other families bought in 2004. Bonifacio and hal of the families had lived most of their lives on the same plantation a indentured labourers before becoming the new owners.
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Simon Granovsky-Larsen
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uatemala is an agricultural it is one of the few countries in most Guatemalans, and especia generations, and attempts to co Over the last 15 years, however essay highlights a number of co
Since the late 1990s, hundreds legal title to large pieces of lan purchased their land through a debt and often stuck with remote action to support historical land struggling to obtain land are su strategizing, lobbying, and prot
Dried coffee being processed in Salvador Xolhuitz, Retahuleu. The group has tried to sell their coffee to a fair trade co-operative but have been held back by an internal community conflict, a common difficulty after moving to new land.
The struggle for land in Guatem Indigenous groups fought land agricultural expansion. An attem coup, and was followed by four earth campaigns. Today, econom bio-fuel production, are behind The period since the end of the
Some groups move to new land with no infrastructure. Here, the new community of Cablajú Tziquín from Finca La Moca in Alta Verapaz starts to put together a communal assembly hall.
A boy holds young chickens in the community of San José La Pasión, Alta Verapaz. Before moving to their new land, the community fought two land occupations over eight years, even after the assassination of one community leader and the jailing of another.
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