There is a project in Peru on urban
land reform--IDB is doing the rural
land reform counterpart.
Scheidel surveyed the history of
land reform in several countries.
The danger of doing nothing about
land reform is that the restlessness and agitation among the landless rural population and the homeless urbanites could lead, as they did in Zimbabwe, to social upheavals and spontaneous land occupations, with land seizures and land grabs leading to anarchy.
But of the 4,500 white-owned farms that were in the country when the
land reforms began, fewer than 300 remain today.
Luo Guibo's plan for mobilizing the masses and implementing the experimental stage of
land reform for 1953 exemplified Chinese influence on the DRV at this time.
Following new South African government pledges to speed up
Land Reform, Africas biggest food expo promises expert analysis at a major conference in Johannesburg next month.
We write letters, speak to MSPs, take part in
land reform forums - it's peaceful.
This is not the first book on Zimbabwe's
land reform, nor the last.
With a union representative on the
Land Reform Advisory Committee the NAU noted shortcomings in the Amendment Act of 2014 and hoped that this would be addressed in the Land Bill, which still has to be tabled.
But the verdict sealed the fate of
land reforms, as majority of lawmakers have vested interest.
The first order after CARP's expiration is to enact a new and genuine
land reform program," he said.
General Ayub's
land reform was not exactly aimed at equity and welfare promoting, but was aimed at boosting agricultural output.
