Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform

by Peter Rosset

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935028285
• ISBN13: 9780935028287
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Food First Books
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"