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

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 …

This book is about agricultural policies in developing countries. It concerns the methods
used by governments to change the ecomonic and social framework within which …

Abstract The World Bank has provided an important leadership role in setting the agenda for
housing and land market analyses, and for identifying policy approaches. Although the Bank …

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 …

Several approaches to the study of poverty are discussed, to learn from their strengths as
well as their weaknesses. For this purpose the concepts of marginality, social exclusion, new …

This essay introduces a collection of papers that examine the effects of contemporary land
reforms in practice. This essay focuses on the roles of state and community in land reform. It …

Surveying three decades of land reform efforts in Latin America, Peter Dorner draws upon
his broad experience as both a policy maker and a researcher specializing in land tenure …

This book focuses its attention on the theme of agrarian reform in the context of the struggle
against poverty. The study centres around the following issues: the nature of agrarian …

It is argued that with the spread of neoliberal policies throughout Latin America in recent
years, the era of major agrarian reforms that started with the Mexican revolution at the …