Abstract

Chile’s new Rural Development Policy (PNDR, by its Spanish acronym) is the instrument that seeks to coordinate and guide public action for the sector, promoting a paradigm based on competitiveness. This article investigates the role played by the neoliberal property regime in this type of instrument. For this purpose, on the one hand, I present evidence regarding the sustained increase in rural land concentration in the most important forestry and agricultural regions of the country, while on the other hand, I show how the PNDR systematically fails to observe this type of phenomena directly linked to rurality. Using the lens of critical legal geography, I argue that this is an inherent contradiction, since the individual, absolute and exclusive condition of rural property prevents its strategic linkage with global and spatial phenomena.

Keywords

Climate Change Land Concentration Land Tenure System Land Use Legal Geography Private Property