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Land Reforms : An overview
This document discusses land reforms, including guidelines for sustainable land reforms. It defines land grabbing and the problems it causes for smallholders, the landless, and indigenous people. It also examines the need for land reform and provides two approaches to land rights. The document then gives guidelines for sustainable land reform and provides quick facts and insights into land reforms that have occurred in India and Latvia, noting problems in both countries. It concludes by prioritizing the poor and emphasizing participation, awareness, regulation, and legislation in land reform frameworks.
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Land Reforms : An overview
- 1. LAND REFORMS GROUP 2 AndréMüller Elsa Ouvrard Ieva Brice Ipsit Dash
- 2. CONTENT – Land Grabbing –What is Land Reform? – Why Land Reform is needed? – Guidelines Sustainable Land Reforms – Insight into Land Reforms in India and Latvia - Conclusion 2
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- 4. DEFINING LAND GRABBING Investmentin large-scale areas of arable land Food Security PROCESS MOTIVES THE HOW contentious WHO Domestic and transnational companies scale and frequency DRIVERS Population Life Styles Biofuel 4
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- 7. Livelihoods of Smallholders,the landless, Indegenous people Cheap promises Exclusion and Expropriation Vicious Cycle of Poverty Environmental Degradations Developing Countries PROBLEMS7
- 8. THE NEED FORLAND REFORMS 8
- 9. WHAT IS LANDREFORM? Two different approaches: - Property Rights Theory - Evolutionary Theory of Land Rights 9
- 10. GUIDELINES FOR ASUSTAINABLE LAND REFORM - Government to facilitate - Participatory and transparent design - Flexibility in implementation - Decentralised and locally managed reforms - Measures to improve access - Monitoring - Post-reform structures 10
- 11. QUICK FACTS India Latvia Areavs Population Index 0,00271 0,0311 GDP per capita ($) 3.851 18.140 Income Category ( World Bank Income Categories) Low Upper Middle Poverty Share Index Ranked 1; (41 % of world’s poverty) Ranked 78 Landuse – Agriculture (%) 51,63 28,64 11
- 12. LAND REFORM ININDIA Pre Independence-Land Reform Post Independence-Land Reform- Land for the tiller and Growth with Equity Voluntary Land Reform Movements 12
- 13. LAND REFORM ININDIA COMMENTS Abolition of Intermediaries and Land Ceiling Acts Land Grabbing instances common after Globalization and Industrialization. Problems of Landless labour situation Benami Transactions, Redistributed Land are mostly fallow and waste land. 13
- 14. LATVIAN LAND REFORMS PeasantReform (1861) Post WW1 Reform (1920) Post WW2 Reform (1945) Post Disintegration of USSR Reform (1991) 14
- 15. PROBLEMS PROBLEMS Problems with RestoringProperty Rights No Access to Own Property Fragmentation of the Land 15
- 16. CONCLUSION - Prioritizing thepoor - Participation - Awareness - Framework - Regulation and Legislation - India and Latvia 16
- 17. Thank you forlistening! 17
- 18. PICTURES Land Grabbing: http://dapa.ciat.cgiar.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/spooner_1504_main-420x01.jpg Land GrabbingSketch: http://elface.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/ellen-li-elface-land-grabs-in-africa.jpg http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/var/broker/storage/images/blogs/a-new-agriculture- Scale for-food-security/the-myths-of-global-land-grabbing-untangled/131607-2-eng-GB/The-myths-of-global-land- grabbing-untangled_full_view.jpg Hay http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YI7ppcKmicc/TB3PK-BBkfI/AAAAAAAAGRk/FSjIks5i1iA/s1600/6132.jpg Where http://trendreport.betterplace-lab.org/media/usr/000/003/067/Auswahl_002_1.png Farmers http://www.hakinetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Download1.jpg IFAD. http://www.ifad.org/english/land/women_land/ Front http://blog.worldagroforestry.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/african-agriculture1.jpg 18