The CIAT Land Notebooks No. 1: Defining an Agrarian and Land Policy for Haiti

Land tenure sits underneath almost every Haitian planning problem: who owns a plot decides whether a neighborhood can be regularized, whether a farmer will invest, and whether the state can site infrastructure. This is the first issue of the CIAT's dedicated land journal, carrying its own legal deposit and ISSN, and it sets out orientation elements for a national agrarian and land policy rather than reporting a single project. The structural diagnosis it works from is stark and recurs across the CIAT corpus: the predominance of small private property and minifundium, a state domain that is undefined and poorly located, and particular forms of undivided co-ownership that make a single parcel the shared and unrecorded claim of many heirs. Published November 2014 alongside the first Cahiers d'urbanisme, the two journals are deliberate twins: one on the city, one on the land under it.