Latin American Land Reforms in Theory and Practice

Latin American Land Reforms in Theory and Practice
Author: Peter Dorner
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780299131647

Summarizes and synthesizes the land reform programs in Latin America over the past 30 years. Considers the political, social, economic, and institutional aspects, and the outcomes, in light of current and future land reform. Paper edition (unseen), $9.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Land & Development in Latin America

Land & Development in Latin America
Author: Stephen Baranyi
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2004
Genre: Land reform
ISBN: 1896770673

Co-published by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Fields of Revolution

Fields of Revolution
Author: Carmen Soliz
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822988100

Fields of Revolution examines the second largest case of peasant land redistribution in Latin America and agrarian reform—arguably the most important policy to arise out of Bolivia’s 1952 revolution. Competing understandings of agrarian reform shaped ideas of property, productivity, welfare, and justice. Peasants embraced the nationalist slogan of “land for those who work it” and rehabilitated national union structures. Indigenous communities proclaimed instead “land to its original owners” and sought to link the ruling party discourse on nationalism with their own long-standing demands for restitution. Landowners, for their part, embraced the principle of “land for those who improve it” to protect at least portions of their former properties from expropriation. Carmen Soliz combines analysis of governmental policies and national discourse with everyday local actors’ struggles and interactions with the state to draw out the deep connections between land and people as a material reality and as the object of political contention in the period surrounding the revolution.

Agrarian Reform in Latin America

Agrarian Reform in Latin America
Author: Robert Jackson Alexander
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1974
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Monograph on agrarian reform issues in Latin America - examines changing patterns of land ownership, the paralysing effects of the traditional land tenure system, the plantation system, institutional frameworks, the organization of rural worker trade unions, etc. Illustrations and references.

Land Reform in Latin America

Land Reform in Latin America
Author: Latin American Regional Meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Technical Committee on Land Reform
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1970
Genre: Land reform
ISBN:

Landing Votes

Landing Votes
Author: Nancy D. Lapp
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004-05-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781403965042

Lapp points out a surprising "coincidence": nearly every grant of suffrage to the rural poor in Latin America took place at the same time as land reforms. She argues that politicians seeking to secure political power both extended suffrage and attempted land reform to gain the support of the previously disenfranchised rural poor. In addition, the book finds that the subsequent success of these reforms depended on the institutionalization of political parties: more extensive reforms occurred where parties were more institutionalized.

Landing Votes

Landing Votes
Author: N. Lapp
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2004-05-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1403976813

Landing Votes explores the conditions under which democratic Latin American governments address persistent political and economic inequities. The book points out a surprising 'coincidence': nearly every extension of suffrage to the rural poor occurred at the same time as land reform. Politicians did not merely react to peasants' demands; rather, they sought political power by extending the right to vote while redistributing land. The book concludes that party institutionalization enhanced the prospects for reforms by holding politicians accountable. More significant reforms occurred which benefited more of the rural poor where institutionalized parties competed for their votes.