UCA Tierra y Agua comes originally from 10 production cooperatives made up by small land owners in the region and by other landless workers. The later ones came to the region to work in the latifunds. The Agricultural Land Reform conceded pieces of land to these people for their exploitation under a cooperative regime.
In 1991 some families arrived to the region coming from the north of the country and running away from the violence that devastated their homelands. These families were welcome and received by the UCA. They constituted new cooperatives or integrated themselves as associates in any of the existing cooperatives.
Along the 90s, the cooperatives integrated in the UCA, as many other in the country, suffered various economical and organizational crises, what leaded them to re-structure the association in 1998, and rename it as UCA “Tierra y Agua”.
Nowadays the UCA gathers 9 cooperatives and 1 women’s association with almost 150 associated partners and around 650 people.
