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Agrarian Reform in Theory and Practice (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Benton, Jane

 
9781138610095: Agrarian Reform in Theory and Practice (Routledge Revivals)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138610097 ISBN 13: 9781138610095
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Published in 1999. Despite the attempts of a number of Latin American republics to redistribute land resources and carry out agrarian reform programmes, ’the land question’ remains a vital political issue throughout the region. This book focuses on Bolivia, where government proposals to replace a radical agrarian reform law of 1953 with a neo-liberal Ley INRA provoked heated public debate and violent campesino clashes with the police (witnessed by the author) in September/October 1996. The first five chapters are largely concerned with theoretical aspects and a review of Bolivia’s agrarian reform legislation: the remaining six chapters are devoted to an analysis, from the viewpoints of participant campesinos and the researcher, of agricultural change in Aymara communities beside Lake Titicaca, where the author has conducted research over nearly 30 years. Currently lakeside farming is under severe threat as a result of land degradation, limited cash resources, rural-urban migration, tourism and commuterisation.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138610097
ISBN 13 
9781138610095
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
228