Author: Alan Charnley BullPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A Comparative Study of Land Reform in Brazil
Author: Alan Charnley BullLand, Protest, and Politics
Author: Gabriel OndettiPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271047844
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil&’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz In&ácio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson&’s classic economic theory of collective action. Ondetti seeks to explain the major moments of change in the landless movement's growth trajectory: its initial emergence in the late 1970s and early 80s, its rapid takeoff in the mid-1990s, its acute but ultimately temporary crisis in the early 2000s, and its resurgence during Lula's first term in office. He finds strong support for the influential, but much-criticized political opportunity perspective. At the same time, however, he underscores some of the problems with how political opportunity has been conceptualized in the past. The book also seeks to shed light on the anomalous fact that the landless movement continued to expand in the decade following the restoration of Brazilian democracy in 1985 despite the general trend toward social-movement decline. His argument, which highlights the unusual structure of incentives involved in the struggle for land in Brazil, casts doubt on a key assumption underlying Olson's theory.
Land Reform in Brazil, Northeast
Author: United States. AID Mission to BrazilPublisher:
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Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Land Reform In Brazil/h
Author: Marta CehelskyPublisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Monograph on political system relationships to land reform agricultural policy in Brazil - analyses rural area social structure, peasant movements, the agricultural sector and role of landowner elites in the political development policy of the presidency, political behaviour of interest groups and efficacy of Brazilian democracy. Bibliography pp. 239 to 251.
International Comparative Study of Strategies for Settlement Support Provision to Land Reform Beneficiaries
Author: Susan TilleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781868086719
Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
A Comparative Analysis of Land Use and Farm Performance in Northeast Brazil
Author: Gary P. KutcherPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Legislatures and Land Reform
Author: James J. HeapheyPublisher:
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Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Land Reform in NE Brazil
Author: Marcelo Marques MagalhãesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The aim of this paper is to address the sources of technical and allocative inefficiency from a cross section sample of 308 beneficiaries of a market assisted land reform program, called “Cédula da Terra” from five states in Northeastern region of Brazil. In spite of some differences on governance of the “Cédula da Terra” in comparison with traditional expropriation land reform program, studies carried by Buainain et al. (2002) have shown small differences between then, regarding their social and economic characteristics. We believe that our results could be useful to identify the main problems of Brazilian land reform settlements. We estimated a potential production frontier following the methodology of Battese and Coelli (1995), Coelli et al. (1998) and applied econometric techniques to explain inefficiency. The results indicate the existence of technical and allocative inefficiency, which is identified mostly in situations where the presence of production for consumption is high. This is a result that shows how immature the agriculture activity is in most of Cédula da Terra Program settlements and the difficulty to overcome the limitations imposed by the initial condition of formation of agrarian reform, primarily in Northeastern region of Brazil.
Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization
Author: A. Haroon Akram-LodhiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134121903
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
A host of internationally eminent scholars are brought together here to explore the structural causes of rural poverty and income inequality, as well as the processes of social exclusion and political subordination encountered by the peasantry and rural workers across a wide range of countries. This volume examines the intersection of politics and economics and provides a critical analysis and framework for the study of neo-liberal land policies in the current phase of globalization. Utilizing new empirical evidence from ten countries, it provides an in-depth analysis of key country studies, a comparative analysis of agrarian reforms and their impact on rural poverty in Africa, Asia, Latin America and transition countries. Presenting an agrarian reform policy embedded in an appropriate development strategy, which is able to significantly reduce and hopefully eliminate rural poverty, this work is a key resource for postgraduate students studying in the areas of development economics, development studies and international political economy.
Market-Led Agrarian Reform
Author: Saturnino Borras Jr.Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131799096X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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.