In this article, we contextualise, describe and analyse the last attempt at land reform in Spain—the one passed by Autonomous Parliament of Andalusia 1984. The Andalusians had their Statute Autonomy referendum 1981, incorporating mandate to carry out an agrarian that would boost rural economy, generate employment balance agricultural structure region Southern Spain, peripheral both national Eur...

Abstract What motivated right-wing and conservative parties to endorse a policy of land expropriation redistribution in Brazil? I argue that urban-dominated endorsed agrarian reform order to: (i) reduce crime wealthier metropolises by reversing rural–urban migration; (ii) gain competitive advantage against left-wing challengers. To test this argument conduct process tracing, analysing over 500 ...

This article examines the nature of labour exchange between A1 farmers with people in communal areas origin based on kinship and friendship relations. While agrarian Zimbabwe has attracted considerable interest land reform debates, limited attention been paid to livelihoods belonging under Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP). Using a qualitative case study from Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, ...

Note: Oxfam GB is grateful to the publisher, Blackwell, to the authors and the journal editors for permission to post on its land rights website this important article which (slightly revised) was published in the Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 3, nos.1 and 2, January and April, 2003, pp. 67-112, in a special issue on Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights. See the Journal of Agrarian Change...

Most commentary on Zimbabwe‟s land reform insists that agricultural production has almost totally collapsed, that food insecurity is rife, that rural economies are in precipitous decline, that political „cronies‟ have taken over the land and that farm labour has all been displaced. This paper however argues that the story is not simply one of collapse and catastrophe; it is much more nuanced an...