Land is Life

doi:10.3362/9781780445274

Land is Life

Land reform and sustainable agriculture

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.

Published: 1992
Pages: 176

eBook: 9781780445274

Paperback: 9781853391460


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