Agrarian Reform under Allende: Peasant Revolt in the South

Whither agrarian reform in South Africa?

Agrarian reform and the ‘two economies’: transforming South Africa’s countryside

This chapter focuses on the rural dimensions of the ‘two economies’ debate, and in particular on the question of what contribution land and agrarian reform can make to reducing inequality and addressing the structural nature of rural poverty in post-apartheid South Africa. It suggests that the problem needs to be conceptualised in terms of an ‘agrarian question of the dispossessed’, that can on...

Sharad Capital as Toil: Peasant-Workers and the Agrarian Past in a South Indian Industrial Town

Tiruppur town, in Tamilnadu state, was propelled to the center of India’s cotton knitted garment exports through in the last two decades of the 20 century. What is key about industry in Tiruppur is that work has been organized through networks of small firms integrated through intricate subcontracting arrangements controlled by local capital of the Gounder caste, from modest agrarian and workin...

Albania's radical agrarian reform.

The agrarian reform in Albania included free distribution of land to rural households and the complete break up of the former collective and state farms. These key features of the Albanian reform are in sharp contrast with other Central and Eastern European countries. Our paper explains the choice of the Albanian agricultural privatization and land reform process and the radical decollectivizat...

Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa Land use and livelihoods