Land Reform and Peasant Livelihoods
Subtitle: The Social Dynamics of Rural Poverty and Agrarian Reforms in Developing Countries
Publisher: Practical Action
Published: August 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781853395277
Subjects: Management of land & natural resources; Poverty; Property & real estate; Work & labour; Nature; Land Utilization; Business / Economics / Finance; Nature/Ecology; Developing countries; Development - Economic Development; Business & Economics / Economic Development; Natural Resources
Description: This book advocates land reform as a valid policy option for rural development and poverty eradication. It argues that land reform should be strongly supported by donor agencies, governments and civil society groups. The authors scrutinize the inadequacy of the market-oriented approach, which is linked to the structural adjustment policies of the international financial institutions, and provide convincing arguments for a flexible approach to re-distributive reforms as the appropriate strategy toward alleviating rural poverty., 2001.