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Latin America
The Land Matrix Regional Focal Point (RFP) Latin America, hosted by the Foundation for Development in Justice and Peace (FUNDAPAZ), is responsible for regional-level data collection, research, policy, advocacy, networking, and communication. FUNDAPAZ works in collaboration with the Research Institute on Renewable Energy (INENCO).
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Deal narratives
Deal Narrative 3: Securing land rights and access to commons - new hope for the Argentine Chaco’s pastoralists?
2024-09-11Read more >>The Chaco region, which spans Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay, is the second largest forest in South America after the Amazon rainforest. It is also one of the fastest growing agricultural frontiers in South America and a global deforestation hotspot. Since the 1990s, the Argentine Chaco has experienced a massive expansion …
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Complex relationships between large-scale land acquisitions, deforestation, and land zoning policies in agricultural frontiers
2025-07-09Read more >>This article, authored by members of the Land Matrix's Latin America Regional Focal Point, analyses the links between large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs), deforestation, and zoning policies in the Chaco region of Salta, Argentina, from 1998 to 2021. Using the Land Matrix database, geographic information systems tools, and time-lagged cross-correlation …
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The new dynamics of land grabbing in Argentina: Characterization, alternatives, and challenges
2025-05-28Read more >>This collective work, which includes two chapters authored by members of the Land Matrix Regional Focal Point in Latin America, delves into the territorial transformations linked to the phenomenon of land grabbing in Argentina. See the following chapters for our contributions:
- Chapter 1, Section 1: Competencies and Potential Land-Use Conflicts …
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The greenest country in the world? The case of the Saamaka and their fight against deforestation
2024-07-01Read more >>New evidence from geospatial maps reveals the shocking extent of forest damage to Saamaka territory in Suriname’s Amazon due to illegal logging and mining concessions granted by the government. Saamaka territory is also a critical carbon sink. More than 14 years after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights mandated the …