date:Sep 29, 2013
and-reform effort.
Individuals and companies are only able to buy much smaller areas of land between 36 and 1,725 hectares (89 and 4,262 acres) in the region, Oxfam said.
Access to land was one of the issues that spawned a bloody and on-going five-decade conflict in which rebels, the FARC and smaller guerrilla group, the ELN, have been trying to topple the government.
Agrarian reform is a hot political issue and was the first issue to be tackled at peace talks taking place in Cuba between the