Agricultural Land Redistribution :
Toward Greater Consensus

The main focus of this book is land
redistribution. To forge greater consensus among
practitioners of land reform, and to enable them to make
better choices among the many options, the book describes
and analyzes alternative broad paths of implementation,
using examples and the detailed implementation mechanisms
that were used in those examples. The objectives of this
book are to review and analyze: a) the growing consensus on
the importance of land redistribution; b) the historical
origins of land concentration and past attempts to
redistribute land; c) ongoing land reform programs, their
mechanisms, achievements, and limitations; d) the wide array
of objectives, mechanisms, and tools for land redistribution
that remain the focus of heated debate; and e) how to
develop, implement, and monitor an effective national
program of land redistribution.