This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory
approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Latin America. Beginning with a …

E AGRARIAN sEcoR of contemporary Latin America is undergoing a process of conflict and
radical change; the traditional system of large estates or haciendas is now disappearing in …

The report consists of a set of interrelated essays that start with an empirical diagnosis of the
dimensions of poverty and brief discussions of the economic and political framework within …

Land reforms are laws that are intended, and likely, to cut poverty by raising the poor's share
of land rights. That raises questions about property rights as old as moral philosophy, and …

The conventional view of “traditional” or informal systems of African land rights is that they
impede agricultural development, and that land titling or registration is needed to encourage …

This economic history examines the political, institutional and economic forces that shaped
Latin America's complex and often paradoxical development process over the 20th century …

Redistributive land reforms have begun to attract the attention of scholars and policy makers
once again. In this paper, we review old arguments and bring them up‐to‐date in the light of …

The division of the world into rich and poor nations, and the division within poor nations
between a minority of rich people and a majority of poor people living at a minimum …

Praise for the first edition:'Accomplishes its task to provide readers with a broad multi-
disciplinary view on globalization's many impacts on Latin America... the organization of the …

First published in 1984, Michael Redclift's book makes the global environmental crisis a
central concern of political economy and its structural causes a central concern of …