Land is Life: Land reform and sustainable agriculture

Author:   Nigel Dudley ,  John Madeley ,  Sue Stolton
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
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9781853391460


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   15 December 1992
Format:   Paperback
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Links the issues of sustainable agriculture and land reform. When farmers own their land they are likely to produce more food and to farm sustainably. Large increases in food output occur when farmers are given land under agrarian reform programmes.

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Author:   Nigel Dudley ,  John Madeley ,  Sue Stolton
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
Imprint:   Practical Action Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.70cm
Weight:   0.245kg
ISBN:  

9781853391460


ISBN 10:   1853391468
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   15 December 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

FOREWORD Nigel Dudley, John Madeley and Sue Stolton ix 1 Stabilization of Agricultural Resources 1 World hunger, land reform and organic agriculture Nigel Dudley 1 Concept, requirements and measures to ensure sustainable agricultural development Uwe Otzen 43 2 Latin America and the Caribbean 59 Brazil: Agrarian reform in Brazil Lino de David 59 Colombia: Save the rainforests - give them away Peter Bunyard 70 Dominican Republic: Slowly does it; learning and teaching about agriculture Mark Feedman 77 3 Africa 83 Overview Mohamed Suliman 83 Zimbabwe: Issues arising from the Land Resettlement Programme John Cusworth 89 Namibia: Land reform - who will be the beneficiaries? Martin Adams 102 4 Asia 107 India: Land rights in the villages of India VithalRajan 107 Philippines: Land reform and soil conservation RomyTiongco 117 Thailand: Land security and traditional agriculture Larry Lohmann 120 Indonesia: Problems of land-use policy Tadjudin Djuhendi 128 S Europe 133 Organic farming in Western Europe: which way forward? Lawrence Woodward 133 The Norwegian GATT campaign Helge Christie 137 Organic farming in Eastern Europe Nigel Dudley 139 APPENDIX 145 REFERENCES 152

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John Madeley is editor of International Agricultural Development. Sue Stolton works for the Equilibrium research organization.

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