| Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform Contributor(s): Rosset, Peter (Editor), Patel, Rajeev Charles (Editor), Courville, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0935028285 ISBN-13: 9780935028287 Publisher: Food First Books OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Ngos (non-governmental Organizations) - Political Science | Political Process - Political Advocacy |
| Dewey: 333.31 |
| LCCN: 2005033784 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.1" W x 8.92" (1.39 lbs) 380 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Developing World |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Agrarian reform is back at the center of the national and rural development debate, a debate of vital importance to the future of the Global South and genuine economic democracy. The World Bank as well as a number of national governments and local land owning elites have weighed in with a series of controversial policy changes. In response, peasants landless, and indigenous peoples' organizations around the world have intensified their struggle to redistribute land from the underutilized holdings of a wealthy few to the productive hands of the many. The essays in this volume, edited by scholars from the Land Research Action Network (LRAN), critically analyze a wide range of competing visions of land reform. Promised Land is an essential resource for academics, students, policy makers, activists, and peasant organizations. |