The Colombian rural population represents about 32 percent of the total population, more than fourteen million inhabitants (Machado, 2011:6). Sixtyfour out of every 100 rural inhabitants are poor and twenty-nine are indigent (DNP, 2010:174). Although the percentage of poor people living in rural areas has dropped in the last decade, the reduction has not been significant and socioeconomic inequality is far reaching (Brizzi et al. 2003; DNP 2010). Two structural factors hold back peasants’ development: first, very high landownership concentration (Kalmanovitz and López 2006; FAO and CAF 2007; Perry 2010; Machado 2011) and second, the heterogeneity of productivity within agricultural activities and between the agricultural sector and other economic sectors (Guterman 2008; ECLAC 2010). These problems are reinforced by a prolonged armed conflict that causes huge economic, social and environmental costs in rural areas (Garfield and Arboleda 2002).