Redistributive land reform involves transferring property rights over land from large landowners to small farmers and landless workers in order to adjust social and economic relationships. It most commonly takes land from state or individual estates and gives it to those with no land. There are three approaches: state-led reform imposed from above, market-based reform driven by market forces, and negotiated reform involving stakeholders. Successful reforms that distributed high quality land broadly triggered economic development by growing domestic markets and including more people, while "fake" reforms providing only poor land failed to change power structures. Land reform can reduce poverty, boost productivity, fuel economic growth, and improve environmental stewardship when implemented authentically.

1. UNIT 3
REDISTRIBUTIVE LAND
REFORM

2.  1. What are the objective of land
reform? (3 pts)
 2. A form of land reform that involves
the restoration of land rights to
previous owners is called_______.
(2pts)
 3. list and Explain the three
approaches of land reform?(6pts)

3. Brainstorming Question:
What is land redistribution?

4. Basic Concepts of Redistribution
Definition:
 It is a public policy that transfers property
rights from large private landholdings to
small farmers and landless farm workers.
 It is aimed precisely at adjusting pre-
existing social and production relationships
by transferring the effective control over
land-based wealth and power from the
landed to the landless and near-landless
classes
 It takes land from the State or from
individual owners of large estates and
giving it to people who have no land.

5.  The universally accepted definition,
implicitly and explicitly, dissolves non-
private lands (ie, ‘public’, ‘state’ or
‘communal’ lands).
 Most commonly redistributive land
reform is undertaken on land which are :
◦ officially classified as ‘public/state’ properties,
◦ those area open for resettlement areas,
◦ lands that are generally not cultivated and
inhabited, and
◦ Those which are without pre-existing private
control.
◦ This type of land reform is most commonly
practiced on public land.

6. Cont…….
 In the conventional land reform
literature,
‘public’ lands are defined as
unproductive and uninhabited lands
without existing land-based production
and distribution relationships.

7. Options for RLR
There are three options
1. State led or imposed RLR
2. Market Based RLR
3. Negotiated or Actor oriented RLR

8. Two Contrasting RLR
types………
 The redistribution of land can fulfill a number of
functions in more sustainable development.
 A number of redistributive land reforms were
carried out in the world after WWII. History shows
two contrasting land reforms were carried out:
1. Radical ( 'genuine land reform)‘ : like for
example, When quality land was really distributed
to the poor, Example in Japan, South Korean,
Taiwan, Cuba and China are all good examples.
2. ‘Non-egalitarian' reforms (‘window dressing' or
even 'fake' reforms)his is a reforms that gave
only poor quality land to beneficiaries or failed to
alter the rural power structures that work against
the poor.

9. Functions of RLR
 The more successful reforms triggered relatively
broad-based economic development.
 By including the poor in economic development,
they built domestic markets to support national
economic activity
 The important roles redistributive land reform can
play in the move toward more sustainable
development are the following:
a) Redistributive Land Reform and Poverty
b) Redistributive Land Reform and Productivity
c) Redistributive Land Reform and Economic
Development
d) Redistributive Land Reform and The
Environment

10. Reading Assignment/ Peer Group
Discussion issues
1. What is redistributive land reform? Explain. Why it
is largely undertaken on Public land?
2. Explain the difference between state-led
redistributive land reform and market based
redistributive land reform.
3. Explain the difference between genuine and fake
redistributive land reforms.
4. Explain how redistributive land reforms serve as a
tool to achieve poverty reduction. How it helps to
enhance productivity and economic development?
5. Explain the link between redistributive land reform
and environmental stewardship.

11. Cont…………
Thank you