Agrarian reform is usually part of a process of extensive political and economic reforms. Recently various types of agrarian reforms shaped the process of land redistribution in numerous countries:

1. Land redistribution in favor of smallholders and the landless on the basis of expropriated large landholdings (usually with compensation), state property and/or land market interventions. Recent examples are South Africa, Brazil, Colombia and the Philippines;

2. Privatization of ownership or use rights in the transforming countries (examples: Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Laos, Vietnam, Angola and Mozambique);

3. Legal and institutional reforms (examples: Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Bolivia);

4. Land reforms in favor of pastoralists and traditional local groups (examples: Mongolia, Mali, Niger and Maghreb).