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Market-Led Agrarian Reform book cover

1st Edition

Market-Led Agrarian Reform

Edited By Saturnino Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay, Edward Lahiff Copyright 2008
223 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

223 Pages
by Routledge
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Three-fourths of the world’s poor are rural poor. Most of the rural poor remain dependent on land-based livelihoods for their incomes and reproduction despite significant livelihood diversification in recent years. Land issue remains critical to any development discourse today. Market-led agrarian reform (MLAR) has gained prominence since the early 1990s as an alternative to state-led land... Read more

1. Market-Led Agrarian Reform: policies, performance and prospects: Edward Lahiff (UWC); Saturnino M. Borras Jr. (SMU); Cristobal Kay (ISS)

2. Land, Markets and Neoliberal Enclosure: an agrarian political economy perspective: Haroon Akram Lodhi (Trent University, Canada)

3. De Soto and Land Relations in Rural Africa: breathing life into dead theories about property rights: Celestine Nyamu-Musembi (IDS, Sussex)

4. Liberalization and the Debates on Women’s Access to Land: Shahra Razavi (UNRISD)

5. Social Movements and the Experience of Market-Led Agrarian Reform in Brazil: Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro)

6. The Politics of Peace and Resettlement through El Salvador’s Land Transfer Programme: caught between the state and the market: Ariane de Bremond (H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, USA)

7. Eliminating Market Distortions, Perpetuating Rural Inequality: an evaluation of market-assisted land reform in Guatemala: Susana Gauster (CONGCOOP, Guatemala); Ryan Isakson (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada)

8. Anti-Poverty or Anti-Poor?: the World Bank’s market-led agrarian reform experiment

in the Philippines: S. Borras Jr (SMU); Jennifer Franco (Transnational Institute, Amsterdam); D. Carranza (PEACE, Philippines)

9. ‘Willing Buyer, Willing Seller’: South Africa’s failed experiment in market-led agrarian reform: Edward Lahiff (UWC)

10. Politics, Power and Poverty: twenty years of agricultural reform and market liberalisation in Egypt: Ray Bush (University of Leeds)

Biography

Saturnino M.. Borras Jnr. is Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Cristobal Kay is Emeritus Professor of Rural Development and Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague and Professorial Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Edward Lahiff is Doctoral Officer with the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

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