Experiences with land registration in Guatemala

Hemert, Jan van

Paper presented at the Symposium on Land Administration in Post Conflict Areas, held at Geneva, 29-30 April 2004 (LAPCA, Geneva).

In this presentation is described how the last half century the problems around land have regulated the development of Guatemala, from the revolution in the fifties in the last century, the armed conflict during more then thirty years and after the peace agreements of 1996 the attempts to stabilise the country. An important part of this process of stabilisation is to resolve the problems around land ownership. The presentation describes the problems concerning land ownership, the way the country has tried to solve them and finally the description of the actual situation with some suggestions for the future.

Event: Symposium on Land Administration in Post Conflict Areas

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