Author: Earl Jones
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Enrique Mayer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009-10-30
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 082239071X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process began in 1969, when the left-leaning military government implemented a drastic program of land expropriation. Seized lands were turned into worker-managed cooperatives. After those cooperatives began to falter and the country returned to civilian rule in the 1980s, members distributed the land among themselves. In 1995–96, as the agrarian reform process was winding down and neoliberal policies were undoing leftist reforms, the Peruvian anthropologist Enrique Mayer traveled throughout the country, interviewing people who had lived through the most tumultuous years of agrarian reform, recording their memories and their stories. While agrarian reform caused enormous upheaval, controversy, and disappointment, it did succeed in breaking up the unjust and oppressive hacienda system. Mayer contends that the demise of that system is as important as the liberation of slaves in the Americas. Mayer interviewed ex-landlords, land expropriators, politicians, government bureaucrats, intellectuals, peasant leaders, activists, ranchers, members of farming families, and others. Weaving their impassioned recollections with his own commentary, he offers a series of dramatic narratives, each one centered around a specific instance of land expropriation, collective enterprise, and disillusion. Although the reform began with high hopes, it was quickly complicated by difficulties including corruption, rural and urban unrest, fights over land, and delays in modernization. As he provides insight into how important historical events are remembered, Mayer re-evaluates Peru’s military government (1969–79), its audacious agrarian reform program, and what that reform meant to Peruvians from all walks of life.
Author: Alvin T. Claridades
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 763
ISBN-13: 9786210204056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John F. McCarthy
Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Published: 2016-05-18
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9814762083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Indonesia was founded on the ideal of the “Sovereignty of the People”, which suggests the pre-eminence of people’s rights to access, use and control land to support their livelihoods. Yet, many questions remain unresolved. How can the state ensure access to land for agriculture and housing while also supporting land acquisition for investment in industry and infrastructure? What is to be done about indigenous rights? Do registration and titling provide solutions? Is the land reform agenda — legislated but never implemented — still relevant? How should the land questions affecting Indonesia’s disappearing forests be resolved? The contributors to this volume assess progress on these issues through case studies from across the archipelago: from large-scale land acquisitions in Papua, to asset ownership in the villages of Sulawesi and Java, to tenure conflicts associated with the oil palm and mining booms in Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Sumatra. What are the prospects for the “people’s sovereignty” in regard to land?
Author: Trung Dang
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2018-04-17
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1760461962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book investigates why collectivised farming failed in south Vietnam after 1975. Despite the strong will of the new regime to implement collectivisation, the effort was uneven, misapplied and subverted. After only 10 years of trying, the regime annulled the policy. Focusing on two case studies—Quảng Nam province in the Central Coast region and An Giang province in the Mekong Delta—and based on extensive evidence, this study argues that the reasons for variations in implementation and the failure and reversal of the policy were twofold: regional differences and local politics.
Author: James Rowles
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Study of the background to the adoption of the 1961 agrarian reform legislation in Costa Rica - considers the struggle of political leadership for democratic social reform; analyses early attempts which failed in 1955; comments on the 1958 draft Law of Lands and Land Settlement, the 1959 Law of Economic Encouragement, and the 1961 Law of Lands and Land Settlement; reports extensively on parliamentary debates and final obstacles. References.