Carter, Miguel, dir. 2015. Challenging Social Inequality. The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil

[Health of families from the Landless Workers' Movement and temporary rural workers, Brazil, 2005].

OBJECTIVE To assess the health conditions of families from the Landless Rural Workers' Movement and temporary rural workers. METHODS The research involved a comparative study of three populations: a settlement and a camp linked to the Rural Workers' Movement, and the families of temporary rural workers in a city of Southeast Brazil, in 2005. Information relating to sociodemographic characteri...

Epidemiological aspects of schistosomiasis in workers of the movement of landless rural workers.

INTRODUCTION Schistosomiasis is endemic in 74 countries and is considered a serious public health problem in some locations. METHODS A transverse study was performed of 13 landless settlements in southern Sergipe from February to December 2009. The study included 822 settlers, of whom 601 underwent stool testing. RESULTS The prevalence of schistosomiasis in landless workers was 4.3%. The po...

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...

Broadening and Reinforcing the Benefits of Land Reform in the Philippines

After 20 years of implementing the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program or CARP in 1987, evidence to suggest that it has contributed to solving the poverty problem in the Philippine rural sector remains deficient. After spending a total of P137 billion1 on land distribution and support services to the program beneficiaries, the outcome is deemed lacking in terms of achieving social justice for...

Whither agrarian reform in South Africa?