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Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action
Edited by Alain de Janvry, Gustavo Gordillo, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Jean-Philippe Platteau
666 pages
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numerous tables and figures
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230x156mm
978-0-19-924217-7
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Hardback
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29 March 2001
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- Offers a set of guidelines for policy makers and international development agencies regarding how to reform land policies
Land is a fundamental productive asset in agrarian economies. The rules that codify access to land and the way jurisdiction over land is distributed among members of a community have a powerful influence over how efficiently land is used, the incidence of poverty, and the level of inequality in the community. Yet we observe that much of the land in less developed countries is underutilized and/or misused from a sustainability standpoint, that lack of access to land or unfavorable terms of access remain a fundamental cause of
poverty, and that unmet demands for land can be a source of political destabilization. At the same time, there presently exist unusual opportunities to reopen the issue of access to land. They include an increasing concern with the efficiency costs of inequality in land distribution, devolution of common property resource management to users, large scale redefinitions of property rights in the context of transition economies in Eastern and central Europe and the end of white rule in South Africa, liberalization of land markets, mounting pressure to deal with environmental issues, the proliferation of civil society organizations voicing the demands of the rural poor, and more democratic and decentralized forms of governance.
There are many channels of access to
land and each of these affects how land is used. While much attention has traditionally been given to state-led redistributive land reforms, this is only one among a variety of options, and currently not the easiest to manage politically. Other channels include inheritance and inter-vivos transfers, intra-household and intra-community land allocations, community titling of open access resources, the distribution of common property resources and the individualization of rights, decollectivization, land markets and land market-assisted land reforms, and land rental contracts. This book analyzes each of these channels of access to land, and recommends ways of making them more effective for poverty reduction.
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
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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 Contributors:
Alain de Janvry, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Gustavo Gordillo, and Elisabeth Sadoulet
Jean-Philippe Platteau and Jean-Marie Baland
Marcel Fafchamps
Keijiro Otsuka and Agnes R. Quisumbing
Elinor Ostrom
W. S. Gombya-Ssembajjwe, A. Y. Banana, and J. Bahati
J. E. Michael Arnold
Elisabeth Sadoulet,
Rinku Murgai, and Alain de Janvry
Uday Shankar Saha and Mandira Saha
Michael R. Carter and Ramón Salgado
Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Wendy Wolford
Wendy Wolford
Klaus Deininger
Johan F. M. Swinnen
Azeta Cungu and Johan F. M. Swinnen
Tomás Doucha, Erik Mathijs, and Johan F. M. Swinnen
Klaus Deininger and Hans Binswanger
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"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
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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
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