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Agrarian Political Economy
assisted
Capitalist Social Property Relations
CASP
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comparative agrarian reform case studies
El Salvador
enclosures
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gendered land access
Indigenous People's Community
Indigenous People’s Community
land
Land Reform
Land Reform Beneficiaries
Land Reform Programme
land tenure security
Land Transfer
Land Transfer Programme
Market Assisted Land Reform
Market Led Agrarian Reform
movements
Movimento Dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem
neoliberal
Neoliberal Enclosure
neoliberal rural policy
peasant social movements
Philippine Land Reform
political
Post-settlement Support
Post-transfer Support
Productive Sub-sector
Productive Subsectors
property rights formalisation
purchase
rural
Rural Poor
rural poverty alleviation
Rural Social Movements
social
South African Land Policy
South African Land Reform
South African Land Reform Programme
State Led Land Reform
transfers

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415590884
  • Weight: 670g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 06 May 2011
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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 reforms. This neoliberal policy is based on the inversion of what its proponents see as the features of earlier approaches, and calls for redistribution via privatized, decentralized transactions between ‘willing sellers’ and ‘willing buyers’. Its proponents, especially those associated with the World Bank, have claimed success where the policy has been implemented, but such claims have been contested by independent scholars as well as by peasant movements who are struggling to gain access to land.

This book presents three thematic papers and six country studies. The thematic papers address issues of formalisation of property rights, gendered land rights, and neoliberal enclosure. These studies demonstrate the pervasive influence of neoliberal ideas on property rights and rural development debates, well beyond the ‘core’ question of land redistribution. The country cases bring together experiences from Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Philippines, South Africa and Egypt. Common findings include the success of landowners in minimising the impact of reform, and a lack of post-transfer support, translating into marginal impact on poverty.

The limitations of the market-led approach, and the implications of the studies presented here for the future of agrarian reform, are considered in the editors’ introduction.

This book was a special issue of The Third World Quarterly.
About
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.