This urgent alert is based on the forceful evictions of Maasai pastoralists from their homes and grazing lands in Loliondo Division, Ngorongoro District in Northern Tanzania and the gross human rights violations that are being committed. 

The eviction operation started on the 4th July 2009 and was conducted by the notorious riot police, the Field Force Unit, with assistance of private guards from the Otterlo Business Cooperation (OBC). They entered the villages by shooting in the air and using teargas before pouring petrol on the Maasai homes and setting them on fire.

Contains mix-and-match ministries, separating Land Reform from Agriculture, dualism and the ‘missing middle’, rethinking rural development, what are the policy alternatives?

An Act strengthening the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), extending the acquisition and distribution of all agricultural lands, instituting necessary reforms, amending for the purpose certain provisions of Republic Act No. 6657, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988, as amended, and appropriating funds therefore.

Debate y acciones sobre desarrollo rural en Ecuador
Stalin Herrera *

Instituciones

Temas

- Centros vinculados con las universidades: FLACSO, UASB, SIPAE, ESPOL.
- Otras instituciones: SNV, AVSF, RURALTER, Red Cántaro, CAAP, IEE, RIMISP, CAMAREN, CESA, IEDECA.
- Estudios de Heifer y el FEPP.

Includes modernisation and agricultural development in Southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia) past and present; framing viability: frameworks for assessing land and agrarian reform; viability in redistributive land reform in Southern Africa; rethinking viability in Southern African land reform.

This book is a compilation of 11 papers that explore the limits of the current approach to land redistribution in South Africa and propose policy alternatives. Centres on 3 themes: how land is to be acquired (which land, and for whom), under what tenure arrangements it is to be held, and how production is to be supported. Focus moves beyond debating alternatives to the ‘willing-buyer, willing-seller’ paradigm to the kind of agrarian change that land reform should pursue. Central to all is reconfiguring the roles of state and market.

En el documento se pretende hacer una contextualización de lo que ha sido el desarrollo rural en Colombia, tomando como referencia las estrategias que desde el contexto internacional se han diseñado para menguar la problemática social del medio rural, algunos enfoques nacionales que se ha implementado en este mismo sentido y algunas interpretaciones de las institutciones que trabajan en este ámbito, de manera que permita concluir de forma clara que tan rural es el desarrollo, y si las intervenciones en el ámbito agrario nacional son o no coherentes con las necesidades puntuales de la poblac

Land use conflicts are common phenomena in Tanzania and the world at large. One major reason before going to specific cases hinges on the fact that land does not expand while people and other living organizations that depend on it keeps on increasing on the early surface. This un matching ratio between land as basic resources for livelihoods and its users constantly results into land use conflicts.

This article examines the evolution of policy recommendations concerning rural land issues since the formulation of the World Bank’s “Land Reform Policy Paper” in 1975. That paper set out three guiding principles: the desirability of owner-operated family farms; the need for markets to permit land to be transferred to more productive users; and the importance of an egalitarian asset distribution.

En el documento se pretende hacer una contextualización de lo que ha sido el desarrollo rural en Colombia, tomando como referencia las estrategias que desde el contexto internacional se han diseñado para menguar la problemática social del medio rural, algunos enfoques nacionales que se ha implementado en este mismo sentido y algunas interpretaciones de las institutciones que trabajan en este ámbito, de manera que permita concluir de forma clara que tan rural es el desarrollo, y si las intervenciones en el ámbito agrario nacional son o no coherentes con las necesidades puntuales de la poblac

Desarrollo rural y descentralización: Relación Virtuosa
Carmen Beatriz Ruiz*

The study sought to determine the state of farms that belonged to the then National Agricultural Corporation (NAFCO), ranches that belong to the National Ranching Company (NAFCO) and land belonging to absentee landlords. Since any state is dynamic, this research report, then, is a socio-historical account of what has been happening within/out more than 543,604 hectares of ranch/farmland in the wake of the fall of nationalization and rise of privatization.