Current land policy in Latin America
Subtitle: regulating land tenure under neo-liberalism
By: Annelies Zoomers and Gemma v.d. Haar (eds.)
Contributors: Zoomers, E. B.; Haar, Gemma van der, 1968-
Publisher: KIT Publishers; Iberoamericana/Vervuert Verlag
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Frankfurt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Land reform -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.; Land tenure -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : regulating land tenure under neo-liberalism / Annelies Zoomers and Gemma van der Haar; value: Old questions and new realities : land in post-liberal economies / Michael Carter; value: Back to the basics : designing tenure institutions for ecologically sustainable resource management / Nancy R. Forster; value: Land in Latin America : new context, new claims, new concepts / Annelies Zoomers; value: Neo-liberal agrarian legislation, gender equality and indigenous rights : the impact of new social movements / Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León; value: Land, territories and indigenous peoples' rights / Willem Assies; value: Torn between three lovers : competition for land between industrial forestry, agriculture and nature conservation in southern Costa Rica / Helena van den Hombergh; value: Social fencing : forest dwellers and control of natural resources in the northern Bolivian Amazon / Ariënne B. Henkemans; value: The "indianization" of land reform : the Tojolabal Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico / Gemma van der Haar; value: Gender roles, inheritance patterns and female access to land in an ejidal community in Veracruz, México / Rosío Córdova Plaza; value: Muerte a los jueces vendidos : land conflicts and the paradox of class justice in rural Honduras / Esther Roquas; value: Between a rock and a hard place : institutional reform and the performance of land privatization in peri-urban Mexico / Gareth A. Jones; value: "Modernizing" agriculture : neo-liberal land tenure reform in Honduras / Andy Thorpe; value: Institutional change and responses at the grassroots level : examples from Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador / Eduardo Baumeister; value: Land market in a new context : the INRA law in Bolivia / Miguel Urioste and Diego Pacheco; value: The contested nature of land tenure regulation / Gemma van der Haar; value: Searching for a new land policy : options and dilemmas / Annelies Zoomers.