Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action

by Janvry, Alain de; Gordillo, Gustavo; Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Sadoulet, Elisabeth

• ISBN13: 9780199242177
• ISBN10: 0199242178
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Redesigning access to land to increase efficiency and reduce poverty is back on the policy agenda. This book broadens the analysis of alternative options beyond state-led redistributions to consider channels of access such as inheritance and inter-vivos transfers, intra-household and intra-community land allocations, community titling of open access resources, the break up of common property resources and the individualization of rights, decollectivization, land markets, and land rental contracts. Each of these channels of access to land is analyzed, and recommendations made to enhance their effectiveness for poverty reduction.

Author Biography

Alain de Janvry is Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Elisabeth Sadoulet is Professor of Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Jean-Philippe Platteau is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Namur. Gustavo Gordillo is Director of the FAO office in Santiago, Chile.

Table of Contents

Access to land and Land Policy Reforms

Impartible Inheritance Versus Equal Division: A Comparative Perspective Centered on Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa

Intrahousehold Access to Land and Source of Inefficiency: Theory and Concepts

Land Rights and Natural Resource Management in the Transition to Individual Ownership: case Studies from Ghana and Indonesia

The Puzzle of Counterproductive Property Rights Reform: A Conceptual Analysis

Case Study. Property Rights: Access to Land and Forest Resources in Uganda

Devolution of Control of Common-Pool Resources to Local Communities: Experiences in

Access to Land via Land Rental Markets

Case Study. Regulating the Sharecropping System: Operation Barga

Land market Liberalization and the Agrarian Question in Latin America

The Changing Role of the State in Latin American Land Reforms

Case Study. Grassroots-Initiated Land reform in Brazil: The Rural Landless Workers' Movement

Negotiated Land Reform as One Way of Land Access: Experiences from Colombia, Brazil, and South Africa

Transition form Collective Farms to Individual Tenures in Central and Eastern Europe

Case Study. The Dramatic Rise of Individual Farming in Albania: Causes and Effects

Case Study. Post-Communist Land Reform and Changes in Tenure in the Czech Republic

The Evolution of the World Ban's Land Policy

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