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Economy & Business - January 2021
PERU: Agrarian law stirs controversy
The repeal on 4 December 2020 of a 20-year-old law regulating Peru’s agricultural sector, prompted by protests held by farm workers across the country, launched a protracted national debate over what form the new agrarian law should take. Congress finally reached a consensus on 29 December, only for demonstrations to resume the next day in rejection of this new proposal, sending things back to square one.
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