Problem of Access to Land for Bolivian Horticultural Producers in the Transitional Zone of Western Greater Buenos Aires

Abstract

Introduction The Buenos Aires metropolitan area (BAMA) is one of the largest urban areas in Latin America with a total population of 11.5 million inhabitants. The core district, the city of Buenos Aires, has around 3 million, while the suburbs contain some 8.6 million. To the west, the principal suburb is Moreno, with a population of 380,000 inhabitants. While it is generally considered that Moreno forms a part of the urban area, since it has a central commercial and residential area, it also has an extensive area on the urban perimeter with mixed rural and urban characteristics.1 Land use is very diverse includ ing: primary activities (horticulture, flower-growing, poultry-farming, bee-keeping and marginal ranching); small construction industries (brick-making); dispersed industrial establishments; dispersed residential spaces (country clubs, settlements and poor neigh borhoods), etc. Moreno is one of the 14 partidos which make up the so-called Buenos Aires Green Belt (18,000 hectares).