"On the basis of a body of empirical research, the authors explore the relationship between agrarian structure and population [in Latin America]. After an introduction in which they present their theoretical and methodological orientation, they describe the current changing trends in agrarian structure, among which are the 'intensification' of the process of the penetration of capitalistic for...

The development of the financial system is shown, both historically and in contemporary data, to be adversely affected by inequality in the distribution of land. To accommodate these empirical findings, a theory is developed that highlights the incentives of landowners to oppose competition in the financial sector. The theory provides an explanation for the co-incident development of the financ...

By the end of the 19 and during the early 20 centuries, the majority of the Swedish population lived off the land. In 1870, 72 percent of the population were engaged in agriculture, and 82 percent of the population lived in the countryside. Of the farmers, the majority were smallholders, as 64 percent of all Swedish farms had between 2 and 20 hectares arable land. This structure did not change ...

The purpose of this piece is to explore how we might go about understanding the political conditions for poverty alleviation via agrarian reform. It argues that the traditional conceptualization of agrarian reform and its politics -which presents a near impossibility in typical political configurations -is too limiting. The traditional economic focus on intersection of landed rights, agricultur...

Note: Oxfam GB is grateful to the publisher, Blackwell, to the authors and the journal editors for permission to post on its land rights website this important article which (slightly revised) was published in the Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 3, nos.1 and 2, January and April, 2003, pp. 67-112, in a special issue on Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights. See the Journal of Agrarian Change...

The aim of the research is to analyse the landscape structure changes from the end of the Soviet times in 1974– 1986 until 2005 when market economy existed in Lithuania. The changes of landscape structure were observed in 100 sample areas (squares) each of them having 2.5 km area and distributed in different landscape types. The changes in sample areas (squares) with determination of land cover...

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 ...