Land and Labor Relations in Guatemala’s 1952 Agrarian Reform: Rethinking Rural Identities

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

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...

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...

Rethinking land reform: comparative lessons from China and India

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Workshop on Community Perspectives on Land and Agrarian Reform (CPLAR) in South Africa

ing issues from the overall programme and perspective, there appear to be significant moments of c~!_l.se~l!_S between_ the ANC and_ Wo.rld_Bank particularly with regard to the scale, scope and general direction of the land reform process in South Africa. There are, however, three main disagreements between the ANC and the World Bank. The first centres on th~motivation for land reform. Whilst t...