-
THE FIRST AGRARIAN REFORM
Law 200 of 1936 is known as the first serious attempt to carry out an agrarian reform and was the result of an agreement with the peasant movement that was on the rise. Important elements of the law were the creation of special judges to settle land conflicts, the introduction of the concept of the social function of land and the figure of extinction of domain. -
LAW 200 OF 1944
Law 200 created the conceptual bases of agrarian reform. Law 100 of 1944 sought to annul the possible effects of Law 200, declaring sharecropping contracts of public convenience and, with it, subjecting the peasant to the landowner. -
LAW 135 OF 1961
Law 135 of 1961 was the product of internal social pressures that had to be averted after the Violence, as well as international pressures. With it, the Colombian Institute of Agrarian Reform (Incora) was created, which sought to force landowners to modernize their farms and allow more appropriate use of the land under penalty of extinction of ownership. -
ANUC AND THE LAW 1 OF 1968
In 1967, the organization of all the users of the agrarian reform began, thus constituting the National Association of Peasant Users (ANUC), used by President Lleras Restrepo as a pressure factor to carry out his agrarian reform, which took shape with Law 1 of 1968, which facilitated the procedures, emphasized unusually exploited properties and the delivery of land to the sharecroppers who worked it. -
AGRARIAN COUNTER-REFORM
In 1972, under the government of Misael Pastrana, an agrarian counter-reform began with the Chicoral agreement, and since then large-scale property has been supported above all as the foundation for development, directing credit towards agricultural entrepreneurs. The agrarian reform was declared finished, and instead of credit, there were only technical assistance programs that were addressed to smallholders.