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List of contents
1. Agrarian Reform in Latin America. 2. Agricultural Systems in Pre-Columbian Bolivia. 3. The Domination of the Hacienda. 4. Bolivia’s Agrarian Reform Law of 1953. 5. Ley INRA (1996). 6. The Lake Titicaca Region. 7. The State of Agriculture in Lakeside Communities on the Eve of Agrarian Reform. 8. The Impact of the 1953 Agarian Reform Legislation. 9. Campensino Opinions on Agrarian Reform. 10. Some Conclusions to be Drawn from the Case Study. 11. The Crisis in Campesino Farming in the Lake Titicaca Region at the End of the Twentieth Century.
Summary
Published in 1999. This book focuses on Bolivia, where government proposals to replace a radical agrarian reform law of 1953 with a neo-liberal Ley INRA provoked heated public debate and violent campesino clashes with the police (witnessed by the author) in September/October 1996.
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’...should be commended...’ British Bulletin of Publications ’At a number of points, the writer has assembled work which is not easily accessible elsewhere, and for this reason alone, the book should form part of any library on the region and the country of Bolivia...It is clearly written and intelligible and should form a standard source work for students of agrarian reform as well as for geographers in general.’ The Geographical Journal ’There will be few readers who will not have second thoughts concerning the land issues after having read this fine book...The book is full of intelligent observations and is very thought-provoking.’ Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture ’...Jane Benton’s forty-year analysis of the Bolivian Agrarian Reform brings a refreshing sense of present-day relevance to what might be considered the long term.’ Latin American Studies '...a useful, penetrating and updated perspective on Bolivia's pathbreaking agrarian reform, as it revisits its impact at various intervals over the last half century.' Mountain Research and Development
