Ecuador: Formal distribution of land to land possessing families

An effective allocation of the lands utilized in financial speculation during the bank crisis to peasant families by means of the Lands Plan has not been possible due to the private nature of these lands. Despite the importance of the Lands Plan, it has generated expectations and competition for the wealth and therefore threatened the tenure security of the land possessing associations and peasant families that have been demanding the regularization of their land tenure for years.

This situation clearly puts these families´ right to adequate food at risk. For this reason, urgent pressure must be placed on the Ecuadorian State demanding that it solves these conflicts and formally transfers the land immediately to peasants with little or no land that are peacefully occupying the said lands. Please send a letter to the President of the Republic asking him to issue an Executive Decree regarding this matter.