 Land Reform under the Alliance for ProgressErnest Feder American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1965, vol. 47, issue 3, 652-668 Abstract: The Alliance for Progress has made land reform the cornerstone of agricultural development in Latin America. A careful evaluation of its achievements and mechanics shows that after three years of operation, an insignificant number of farmers have been beneficiaries of such "reforms." At the same time, the Latin nations' task of assisting farm people without, or without sufficient, land grows at an alarming rate. The best visible result of the Alliance seems to be the enactment of a large number of land reform laws, which have become effective instruments not for carrying out large scale reforms but for stalling them. The high principles of this great development program to do away peacefully with social, economic, and political injustices in agriculture are in conflict with the political realities of the American continent. Only perseverance and ingenuity can make the Alliance a successful test case in the age-old problem of wresting wealth and power peacefully from the few "have's" in favor of the many "have not's," in the interest of the common welfare. Date: 1965 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:47:y:1965:i:3:p:652-668. Access Statistics for this article American Journal of Agricultural Economics is currently edited by Madhu Khanna, Brian E. Roe, James Vercammen and JunJie Wu More articles in American Journal of Agricultural Economics from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Contact information at EDIRC. |
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