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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE

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Total Pages: 392

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Publisher: IICA

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Total Pages: 342

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Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization
Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization

Author: A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-01-24

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1134121911

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Here internationally renowned scholars explore the structural causes of rural poverty, income inequality and the processes of social exclusion and political subordination across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Forsaken Harvest
Forsaken Harvest

Author: Luis G. Cueva

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-12-18

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 1477155783

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This historical monograph examines the decline of the hacienda estates within Jalisco, Mexico during the early decades of the 20th century. The book also explores the impact of the land reform program of President Lazaro Cardenas in transforming the agrarian economic structure of the region. This study contributes to an ongoing lively debate about the hacienda system and the meaning of the Cardenas reforms. This is an important work because it explores the evolution of a regional socio-economic system that promoted urban industrial growth at the expense of the rural poor. The model of regional development described is applicable to other areas of Mexico and underdeveloped Third World nations with extensive peasant populations. The research for this investigation has wider implications regarding issues of global hunger and malnutrition.

Politics of Agricultural Co-Operativism
Politics of Agricultural Co-Operativism

Author: Tanya Korovkin

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0774843020

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This book is a detailed analysis of the evolution of state-sponsored agricultural co-operativism in Peru, an Andean country with high levels of land concentration and widespread rural poverty. Most Peruvian agricultural co-operatives were organized during the military populist government of Velasco Alvarado which, after radical land reform, transformed expropriated estates into co-operatives. From the start, these projects became subject to multiple pressures that ranged from unfavourable government economic policies -- designed to promote import-substitution industrialization at the expense of the agricultural sector -- to the growth of the co-operative bureaucracy and the deterioration of labour discipline.