LAND TRANSFERS AND AGRARIAN CHANGES IN INDIVIDUAL FARMING

Land Allocation in Vietnam’s Agrarian Transition

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

Agrarian Change and Privatization of Ejido Land in Northern Mexico

This paper uses the findings of a 1999 case study of ejidos (collective landholdings) in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, a prominent agricultural region of northwest Mexico, to examine responses to a series of economic and legal reforms enacted as part of Mexico’s ‘Reform of the Countryside’, which began in the late 1980s. In particular, it analyses reactions to the 1992 amendment to Article 27 of Me...

Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa Land use and livelihoods

The politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change: editors' introduction.

This introduction frames key questions on biofuels, land and agrarian change within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. It identifies and explains big questions that provide the starting point for the contributions to this collection. We lay out some of the emerging themes which define the politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change revolving around global ...

Statistical methods for analysing the spatial dimension of changes in land use and farming systems

AIC Akaike information criterion AUC area under the curve COV coefficient of variation GIS geographic information systems GPS Global Positioning System HYV high-yielding variety LUCC land use and land cover change NDVI normalized difference vegetation index OLS ordinary least squares PCA principal component analysis ROC relative or receiver operating characteristic SC Schwartz criterion SSE err...