Tag: rural land

• Thursday, July 22nd 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  As in the Falklands, Colombian children in rural areas taught to identify mines and unexploded ordnance

  

  As happened during decades in the Falkland Islands, children in rural Colombia are being taught how to identify landmines and ordnance planted near their villages by the several guerrilla groups that ravaged the country during the half-century-long insurrection.

• Wednesday, July 24th 2013 - 20:52 UTC

  Foreigners own 6% of rural land in Argentina, equivalent to 15.8 million hectares

  

  A total of 5.93% of rural land in Argentina is foreign-owned President Cristina Fernández announced which amounts to 15.8 million hectares. During a speech at Government House, Justice Secretary Julián Alvarez presented a survey that is a prelude to the full implementation of the Law 26,737 on Rural Lands (Ley de Tierras Rurales) passed in 2011 to place a 15% limit on foreign ownership of rural land in Argentina.