Agrarian reform
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Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to government-
initiated or government-backed redistribution of agricultural
land (see land reform) or, broadly, to an overall redirection of
the agrarian system of the country, which often includes land
reform measures. Agrarian reform can include credit measures,
training, extension, land consolidations, etc. The World Bank
evaluates agrarian reform using five dimensions: (1) price and
market liberalization, (2) land reform (including the
development of land markets), (3) agro-processing and input
supply channels, (4) rural finance, (5) market institutions.[1]
Ben Cousins defines the difference between agrarian reform and
land reform as follows:
Land reform… is concerned with rights in land, and their
character, strength and distribution, while… [agrarian reform]
focuses not only on these but also a broader set of issues: the
class character of the relations of production and distribution in
farming and related enterprises, and how these connect to the
wider class structure. It is thus concerned economic and political
power and the relations between them…[2]
Along similar lines, a 2003 World Bank report states,
…A key precondition for land reform to be feasible and
effective in improving beneficiaries' livelihoods is that such
programs fit into a broader policy aimed at reducing poverty and
establishing a favourable environment for the development of
productive smallholder agriculture by beneficiaries.[3]
Examples of other issues include "tenure security" for "farm
workers, labour tenants, … farm dwellers… [and] tenant
peasants", which makes these workers and tenants better
prospects for receiving private-sector loans;[4] "infrastructure
and support services";[5] government support of "forms of rural
enterprise" that are "complementary" to agriculture;[6] and
increased community participation in government decisions in
rural areas.[6]
Notes
1. ^ Csaba Csaki and John Nash, The Agrarian Economies of
Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of
Independent States, World Bank Discussion Paper 387,
Washington, DC, 1998.
2. ^ Ben Cousins, Agrarian reform and the 'two economies':
transforming South Africa's countryside, draft of Chapter 9
in Ruth Hall and Lungisile Ntsebeza, eds., The Land
Question in South Africa: The Challenge of Transformation
and Redistribution, HSRC Press, Cape Town, South Africa
(2007).
3. ^ World Bank, Land Policies for Growth and Poverty
Reduction, World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2003.
Quoted in Cousins, op. cit., p. 11.
4. ^ Cousins, op. cit., p.4–5, 7, 10–11
5. ^ Cousins, op. cit., p.12
6. ^ a b Cousins, op. cit., p.14
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See also
Agrarian law
Agribusiness
Land reform
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
External links
Global Food Security Threatened by Corporate Land Grabs
in Poor Countries - video report by Democracy Now!
Springer, S. 2012. "Illegal evictions? Overwriting
possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia."
Journal of Agrarian Change.
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