(Dis)Accords: The Politics of Market-Assisted Land Reforms in Chiapas, Mexico

Bobrow-Strain, Aaron

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.01.007

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“…Around the mid-1990s, however, a confl uence of events occurred to bring land reform back onto the policy agendas. Various sporadic but dramatic land-based political confl icts, such as that in Brazil (Petras, 1997(Petras, , 1998Petras and Veltmeyer, 2001;Veltmeyer, 2005aVeltmeyer, , 2005bDeere, 2003;Wright and Wolford, 2003;Robles 2001;Branford and Rocha, 2002;Meszaros, 2000aMeszaros, , 2000b, Zimbabwe (Worby, 2001;Moyo, 2000;Palmer, 2000b;Waeterloos and Rutherford 2004), and Chiapas in Mexico (Harvey, 1998;Bobrow-Strain, 2004) contributed to this policy revival (see also Pons-Vignon and Lecomte, 2004). Also responsible was the realization by promarket scholars that neoliberal policy reforms had diffi culty taking off in most developing countries, which are saddled with the problem of highly skewed land ownership in which most of the rural poor cannot actively participate in the market, or when land markets were distorted by state regulation.…”

Section: State-led Land Reforms: Imperatives and Initiativesmentioning

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Pro-Poor Land Reform : A Critique

Borras¹

2007

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Section: State-led Land Reforms: Imperatives and Initiativesmentioning

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Pro-Poor Land Reform : A Critique

Borras¹

2007

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“…Concebida e impulsionada pelo Banco Mundial (BM) como parte de uma agenda neoliberal mais ampla de reestruturação dos Estados e das economias nacionais, a RAAM começou a ser implantada na África do Sul e na Colômbia em 1994 e, em menos de uma década, já operava em formatos distintos em países como Brasil, Guatemala, Filipinas, Honduras, México, El Salvador e Maláui (MOLINA, 2001;EL-GHONEMY, 2001;EVERINGHAM, 2002;BORRAS, 2003e 2005, BOBROW-STRAIN, 2004GAUSTER, 2006;PEREIRA, 2010).…”

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A reforma agrária assistida pelo mercado do Banco Mundial na África do Sul e no Brasil (1994-2002)

Pereira

2017

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Resumo: O artigo analisa a "reforma agrária assistida pelo mercado" (RAAM) do Banco Mundial, abordando a sua racionalidade, a agenda política da qual fez parte e os resultados da sua implantação na África do Sul e no Brasil. Após identificá-la ao processo mais amplo de atualização da agenda neoliberal articulado em meados dos anos 1990, o artigo discute o programa agrário do Banco e detalha os seus componentes, entre os quais a RAAM. Em seguida, resume tanto a crítica do Banco às reformas agrárias redistributivas do passado, baseadas na desapropriação de terras pelo Estado, como as supostas vantagens da RAAM. Também discute a intencionalidade política que orientou a sua implementação e analisa os resultados socioeconômicos e políticos da RAAM nos dois países.Palavras-chave: Banco Mundial; reforma agrária; mercado de terras; neoliberalismo; pobreza rural. Abstract:The paper analyzes the World Bank's "market-assisted land reform" (MALR), addressing its rationality, the political agenda to which it belonged and the results of its implementation in South Africa and Brazil. After identifying it as part of the broader process of updating the neoliberal agenda articulated in the mid-1990s, the article discusses the World Bank's agrarian program and details its components, including the MALR. It then summarizes both the criticism of the Bank to redistributive agrarian reforms of the past, based on land expropriation by the state, as well as the supposed advantages of MALR. It also discusses the political intentions that guided its implementation and analyzes the socio-economic and political results of MALR in both countries.Keywords: World Bank; agrarian reform; land market; neoliberalism; rural poverty.Resumen: El artículo analiza la "reforma agraria asistida por el mercado" (RAAM) del Banco Mundial, dirigiéndose a su racionalidad, la agenda política a que pertenencia y los resultados de su aplicación en Sudáfrica y Brasil. Después de identificar al proceso más amplio de la actualización de la agenda neoliberal articulado a mediados de la década de 1990, el artículo discute el programa agrario del Banco y detalla sus componentes, incluyendo la RAAM. A continuación se resumen tanto las críticas del Banco a las reformas de redistribución de tierras del pasado, basadas en la expropiación de tierras por el Estado, como las supuestas ventajas de la RAAM. También se analiza la intencionalidad política que guio a su aplicación y los resultados socioeconómicos y políticos de la RAAM en los dos países.

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“…The ejido has 1750 ha of a variety of ecosystems-mixed pineoak, cloud, and subperennial rainforest-due to an altitudinal variation that goes from 750 to 1400 meters above sea level. In 1970 a group of landless farmers took the land from a big landowner who was illegally holding it, a very common story in the area because Chiapas did not benefit from land reform right after the revolution (Bobrow-Strain 2004). The first ejidatarios had to defend the land from the illegal landowner's attacks until the ejido was formally established in 1978.…”

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Building ties: social capital network analysis of a forest community in a biosphere reserve in Chiapas, Mexico

García-Amado¹,

Pérez²,

Iniesta-Arandia³

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ABSTRACT. Governance of the commons depends on the capacity to generate collective action. Networks and rules that foster that collective action have been defined as social capital. However, their causal link is still not fully understood. We use social network analysis to assess social capital, decision-making, and collective action in a forest-based common pool resource management in La Sepultura Biosphere Reserve (Chiapas, Mexico). Our research analyzes the productive networks and the evolution of coffee groups in one community. The network shows some centrality, with richer landholders tending to occupy core positions and poorer landless peasants occupying peripheral ones. This has fostered the community's environmentally oriented development but has also caused internal conflicts. Market requirements have shaped different but complementary productive networks, where organic coffee commercialization is the main source of bridging ties, which has resulted in more connectivity and resilience. Conservation attitudes, along with the institutional setting of the community, have promoted collective action. The unresolved conflicts, however, still leave some concerns about governance in the future.

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(Dis)Accords: The Politics of Market-Assisted Land Reforms in Chiapas, Mexico

Cited by 51 publications

References 6 publications

Pro-Poor Land Reform : A Critique

Pro-Poor Land Reform : A Critique

A reforma agrária assistida pelo mercado do Banco Mundial na África do Sul e no Brasil (1994-2002)

Building ties: social capital network analysis of a forest community in a biosphere reserve in Chiapas, Mexico

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