Understanding the Pressures for Land Reform
Author : Raymond J. Penn
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Land reform
ISBN :
Author : Raymond J. Penn
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Land reform
ISBN :
Author : Raymond J. Penn
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
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Author : Bertram Hughes Farmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 1984-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521249423
This book is a critical examination of the truth behind the stereotype that there is a Green Revolution in agricultural technology. Twenty-one specialists in the field of development studies look at the reality of agrarian change, either through historical analysis, or through in-depth village field-work, or from their experience as development planners.
Author : United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Agriculture and Fisheries
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Land reform
ISBN :
Author : United States. Agency for International Development
Publisher :
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Land reform
ISBN :
Author : Lyle P. Schertz
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Farms
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Land reform
ISBN :
Author : United States. Agency for International Development
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Land reform
ISBN :
Author : Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
ISBN : 9789250054483
Author : Gabriel Ondetti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271047844
Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil&’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz In&ácio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson&’s classic economic theory of collective action. Ondetti seeks to explain the major moments of change in the landless movement's growth trajectory: its initial emergence in the late 1970s and early 80s, its rapid takeoff in the mid-1990s, its acute but ultimately temporary crisis in the early 2000s, and its resurgence during Lula's first term in office. He finds strong support for the influential, but much-criticized political opportunity perspective. At the same time, however, he underscores some of the problems with how political opportunity has been conceptualized in the past. The book also seeks to shed light on the anomalous fact that the landless movement continued to expand in the decade following the restoration of Brazilian democracy in 1985 despite the general trend toward social-movement decline. His argument, which highlights the unusual structure of incentives involved in the struggle for land in Brazil, casts doubt on a key assumption underlying Olson's theory.