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This document, a synthesis of the consultancy work carried out by UPRA in 2015 on rural urban conflicts and their incidence in the formulation of national policies for planning rural lands, seeks to identify some conflicts on the use of rural land in order to develop recommendations for its resolution, based on the diagnosis identified in the Mission of Cities of the National Planning Department (document CONPES 3819 of 2004) and the "Bases for a policy of land management for agricultural uses" (Gestua) formulated by UPRA (Massiris, 2015).
Infographic that contains general information on the UAF and its relationship with the size of properties, economic division, concentration of rural property, average municipal UAF (Law 505 of 1999), departments below or above the UAF and much more.
The objective of this newsletter is to give continuity to the analysis of land distribution, which began with the publication “Atlas of the distribution of rural property in Colombia” (IGAC, 2012). It continued with the publication of a book “Analysis of the distribution of rural property in Colombia: methodology and results 2014” (Cuéllar et al., 2018); and now incorporates themes that allow us to delve into aspects related to the main phenomena associated with distribution of rural land.
The objective of this newsletter is to give continuity to the analysis of land distribution, which began with the publication “Atlas of the distribution of rural property in Colombia” (IGAC, 2012). It continued with the publication of a book “Analysis of the distribution of rural property in Colombia: methodology and results 2014” (Cuéllar et al., 2018); and now incorporates themes that allow us to delve into aspects related to the main phenomena associated with distribution of rural land.
The objective of this newsletter is to give continuity to the analysis of land distribution, which began with the publication “Atlas of the distribution of rural property in Colombia” (IGAC, 2012). It continued with the publication of a book “Analysis of the distribution of rural property in Colombia: methodology and results 2014” (Cuéllar et al., 2018) and the bulletins "Analysis of the distribution of rural property in Colombia: Results 2015 and 2016", incorporating topics that allow deepening in aspects related to the distribution of rural land.
This document presents the methodology for calculating the family agricultural unit (UAF in Spanish), the result of a joint effort between the National Land Agency (ANT in Spanish), the Rural Land Planning, Land Adaptation and Agricultural Uses Unit (UPRA in Spanish) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR in Spanish). Its purpose is to estimate a basic unit of agricultural, livestock, aquaculture or forestry production, which allows a family to remunerate their work and have a capitalizable surplus in accordance with the provisions of the Colombian legal system.
