Access to Land, Rural Poverty and Public Action

There are many channels of access to land and each of these affects how land is used. This book analyzes each of these channels of access to land, and recommends ways of making them more effective for poverty reduction.

This book analyzes each of these channels of access to land, and recommends ways of making them more effective for poverty reduction.

1. Access to land and Land Policy Reforms
2. Impartible Inheritance Versus Equal Division: A Comparative Perspective Centered on Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa
3. Intrahousehold Access to Land and Source of Inefficiency: Theory and Concepts
4. Land Rights and Natural Resource Management in the Transition to Individual Ownership: case Studies from Ghana and Indonesia
5. The Puzzle of Counterproductive Property Rights Reform: A Conceptual Analysis
6. Case Study. Property Rights: Access to Land and Forest Resources in Uganda
7. Devolution of Control of Common-Pool Resources to Local Communities: Experiences in Forestry
8. Access to Land via Land Rental Markets
9. Case Study. Regulating the Sharecropping System: Operation Barga
10. Land market Liberalization and the Agrarian Question in Latin America
11. The Changing Role of the State in Latin American Land Reforms
12. Case Study. Grassroots-Initiated Land reform in Brazil: The Rural Landless Workers' Movement
13. Negotiated Land Reform as One Way of Land Access: Experiences from Colombia, Brazil, and South Africa
14. Transition form Collective Farms to Individual Tenures in Central and Eastern Europe
15. Case Study. The Dramatic Rise of Individual Farming in Albania: Causes and Effects
16. Case Study. Post-Communist Land Reform and Changes in Tenure in the Czech Republic
17. The Evolution of the World Ban's Land Policy