Publisher Summary This chapter inquires into the efficiency and equity consequences of
rental and sales markets for agricultural land in the developing world. Most of the work on …

This book represents a synthesis of research over almost two decades into contract choice
in agrarian economies. It begins by developing a basic one-period model embracing both …

A LANDOWNER may lease his land to another party, a tenant, or he may become an
employer by hiring workers to farm his land. In this way, a land tenancy contract and a labor …

Entre 1976 y 1980, nuestros esfuerzos se Concentraron en anallzar los procesos de
modernización-transformación de las haciendas. Ello dió lugar a la exposición de un orden …

This article addresses the changing nature of farm work in a peasant society in The Gambia,
West Africa. The practice of farm labour has been transformed in the most palpable way by …

This book argues that proposals for sweeping changes in African agricultural land tenure
are misconceived. Colonial administrators, African elites and foreign aid donors have …

Agro-export growth has been associated with land concentration and employment instability.
In the wake of “exclusionary” agro-export booms, land market reform has been proposed as …

This article examines conflicting representations of contract farming in Latin America.
Contract farming addresses many of the contradictions of wage labour in agriculture, but …

This literature review focuses on recent and contemporary tenancy structures in Asia, Africa,
and Latin America. Tenancy for purposes of this review is broadly defined to include different …

In the ideology of “dependency” and the “world system” the preservation of a comprador
bourgeoisie highly dependent on its control of the state apparatus perpetuates the condition …