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The quest to bring land under social and political control: land reform struggles of the past and present in Ecuador
Land reform was one of the most important policies introduced in Latin America in the twentieth century and remains high on the political agenda due to sustained pressure from rural social movements. Improving our understanding of the issue therefore remains a pressing concern. This paper responds to this need by proposing a new theoretical framework to explore land reform and providing a fresh analysis of historical and contemporary land struggles in Ecuador. Drawing on the pioneering work of Karl Polanyi, the paper characterizes these struggles as the attempt to increase the social and political control of land in the face of mounting commodification. The movement started in the 1960s and remains evident in Ecuador today. Exploring land reform in Ecuador from this theoretical perspective provides new insight into land struggles in the country and contributes to debates over land reforms of the past and present elsewhere in the Global South
The latifundista: The impact of his income and expenditure patterns on investment and consumption
Tenencia de la tierra y desarrollo rural en Centroamérica
408 páginas.El presente trabajo es el resultado de un estudio sobre tenencia de tierra y desarrollo rural en Centroamérica. Este estudio forma parte de un programa de investigaciones similares llevado a cabo en varios paÃses. Tiene como objetivo identificar los principales problemas relacionados con la tenencia y la estructura agraria de los paÃses centroamericanos, para facilitar una mayor comprensión de las autoridades nacionales