Guiding Principles:
Land Tenure in Development Cooperation

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Orientierungsrahmen:
Bodenrecht und Bodenordnung

 
Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Technische Zusammenarbeit
Abt. 45 / Div. 45

 

William C. Thiesenhusen (1996):
Trends in Land Tenure Issues in Latin America:

Table of Contents

Executive Summary
I. Introduction
I. A. Purpose
I. B. Rural poverty
I. C. Regional land tenure patterns
I. D. What environmental problems stem from structure of agriculture?
I. D. 1. Suboptimal allocation of productive agricultural resource
I. D. 2. Elite domination of land and nonland resources
I. D. 3. Insecurity of tenure
I. E. Lessons of agrarian reform in Latin America
II. Contemporary Mexico: Chiapas
III. Contemporary Bolivia
IV. Reform examples: Chile and Guatemala
IV. A. Chile
IV. B. Guatemala
IV. C. Policy conclusions
V. Reform examples: El Salvador and Nicaragua
V. A. El Salvador
V. B. Titling Efforts
V. C. Nicaragua
VI. Recent land tenure trends in Brazil
VI. A. Significance of agrarian structure
VI. B. Distribution of agricultural resources
VI. C. Land tenure problems at the frontier
VI. D. Characterizing production and productivity in Brazil’s agriculture
VI. E. Policy conclusions
VI. F. Recent land problems in Brazil
VII. Agrarian Reform themes of the 1960s through the 1980s: Grassroots demands, ideology, leadership, organization, NGOs, and communications
VII. A. What did reform accomplish and what policies are suggested?
VII. A. 1. Reductions of social polarity
VII. A. 2. Do investments increase?
VII. A. 3. More transparent production incentives
VII. A. 4 Poverty reduction
VII. A. 5. Reform and employment
VII. A. 6. Equity
VII. B. Contrasting views on reform
VII. C. Agrarian reform neutralized
VII. D. Donor interest in land reform in Latin America
VII. E. Is land reform still relevant?
VII. F. Policies
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