Readership: International development agencies Development practitioners Policy makers dealing with land issues Policy analysts and researchers Professors and students in the fields of Development Studies/Development Economics
Edited by Alain de Janvry, University of California at Berkeley, Gustavo Gordillo, FAO, Chile, Elisabeth Sadoulet, University of California at Berkeley, and Jean-Philippe Platteau, University of Namur, Belgium
"Thorough and closely argued essays ... one suspects that this work will form a key text in advancing the 'post-Washington consensus' in this area." - Development Policy Review
"Clearly and persuasively brings land issues back into the policy agenda ... rich in evidence and analysis ... refreshingly innovative in terms of methodology ... This book will be of relevance to readers interested in land issues in developing countries and, more broadly, to all those interested in poverty reduction, for which better access to land is an indispensable condition." - Raul Hopkins, International Fund for Agricultural Development
"For academics and policymakers interested in rural development, this book should be required reading ... Unlike most edited books this one hangs together exceptionally well; thanks in large part to the introductory chapter by the editors, which provides a road map and an analytical umbrella within which the chapters fit ... an extremely helpful resource for anyone serious about land relations and development." - Journal of Development Economics
1: Alain de Janvry, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Gustavo Gordillo, and Elisabeth Sadoulet: Access to land and Land Policy Reforms 2: Jean-Philippe Platteau and Jean-Marie Baland: Impartible Inheritance Versus Equal Division: A Comparative Perspective Centered on Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa 3: Marcel Fafchamps: Intrahousehold Access to Land and Source of Inefficiency: Theory and Concepts 4: Keijiro Otsuka and Agnes R. Quisumbing: Land Rights and Natural Resource Management in the Transition to Individual Ownership: case Studies from Ghana and Indonesia 5: Elinor Ostrom: The Puzzle of Counterproductive Property Rights Reform: A Conceptual Analysis 6: W. S. Gombya-Ssembajjwe, A. Y. Banana, and J. Bahati: Case Study. Property Rights: Access to Land and Forest Resources in Uganda 7: J. E. Michael Arnold: Devolution of Control of Common-Pool Resources to Local Communities: Experiences in Forestry 8: Elisabeth Sadoulet, Rinku Murgai, and Alain de Janvry: Access to Land via Land Rental Markets 9: Uday Shankar Saha and Mandira Saha: Case Study. Regulating the Sharecropping System: Operation Barga 10: Michael R. Carter and Ramón Salgado: Land market Liberalization and the Agrarian Question in Latin America 11: Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Wendy Wolford: The Changing Role of the State in Latin American Land Reforms 12: Wendy Wolford: Case Study. Grassroots-Initiated Land reform in Brazil: The Rural Landless Workers' Movement 13: Klaus Deininger: Negotiated Land Reform as One Way of Land Access: Experiences from Colombia, Brazil, and South Africa 14: Johan F. M. Swinnen: Transition form Collective Farms to Individual Tenures in Central and Eastern Europe 15: Azeta Cungu and Johan F. M. Swinnen: Case Study. The Dramatic Rise of Individual Farming in Albania: Causes and Effects 16: Tomás Doucha, Erik Mathijs, and Johan F. M. Swinnen: Case Study. Post-Communist Land Reform and Changes in Tenure in the Czech Republic 17: Klaus Deininger and Hans Binswanger: The Evolution of the World Ban's Land Policy
