Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action

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

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.

Thorough and closely argued essays ... one suspects that this work will form a key text in advancing the 'post-Washington consensus' in this area. Development Policy Review Clearly and persuasively brings land issues back into the policy agenda ... rich in evidence and analysis ... refreshingly innovative in terms of methodology ... This book will be of relevance to readers interested in land issues in developing countries and, more broadly, to all those interested in poverty reduction, for which better access to land is an indispensable condition. Raul Hopkins, International Fund for Agricultural Development For academics and policymakers interested in rural development, this book should be required reading ... Unlike most edited books this one hangs together exceptionally well; thanks in large part to the introductory chapter by the editors, which provides a road map and an analytical umbrella within which the chapters fit ... an extremely helpful resource for anyone serious about land relations and development. Journal of Development Economics