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    Contemporary discourses and contestations around pro-poor land policies and land governance
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    The concern for ‘pro-poor’ land policy has coincided with the mainstream promotion of efficient administration of land policies, leading to the concept of ‘land governance’. This paper aims at better understanding of contemporary policy discourses and political contestations around land and land...

    Australian Overseas Development Assistance and the Rural Poor
    Dianto Bachriadi

    Australian overseas development assistance is not simply driven by a desire to assist poorer countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The fundamental premise of Australian aid is, first and foremost, its own national interest.

    Germany's Official Development Assistance in Land Policy
    Roman Herre

    The German government's involvement in land policy is reflected through its support for technical land administration and management in more than 20 countries, while the engagement in redistributive land policies like land reform is almost non-existent.

    Land Reform Policies in Belgian Official Development Assistance
    Jonas Vanreusel

    For the most part of its history, the Belgian Official Development Assistance (ODA) focused on narrow agricultural productivity issues. With the slow but steady insertion of Belgian ODA into the
    international development community’s priorities, instruments and methods, Belgium started to...

    Land, Rural Social Movements and Democratisation in Indonesia
    TNI
     Dianto Bachriadi

    Although support from urban-based students and activists was important, the rural protest in Indonesia during President Suharto's regime was built on continued protest and organisation around land issues.

    CARPER: latest chapter in agri reform battle
    Walden Bello

    whether Philippines' Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law becomes truly a vehicle for advancing reform will depend on whether pro-reform forces can create, at the local level, the critical political mass involving farmers, progressive elements at the Department of Agrarian Reform, the Church, and...

    Pro-Poor Policy Reforms and Governance in State/Public Lands:
    Jennifer Franco

    This paper attempts to specify the key criteria of a ‘pro-poor land policy’ and ‘truly democratic land governance’ concerning state/public lands, using the lessons from activist databases, including that of the international human rights organization Foodfirst Information and Action Network (...

    Agrarian change and peasant studies: changes, continuities and challenges – an introduction
    Jun Borras

    The recent convergence of various crises – financial, food, energy and environmental – has put the nexus between 'rural development' and 'development in general' back onto the center stage of theoretical, policy and political agendas in the world today.

    Transnational agrarian movements: struggling for land and citizenship rights
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras
    TNI
    La Vía Campesina’s transnational campaign in protest against neoliberal land policies has helped to generate new meanings of global citizenship.

     

    From rural livelihoods to agricultural growth
    TNI
     Lies Craeynest

    This paper examines the policies and practices on land of the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom. After a market-led approach to land distribution in the 1980s, DFID made some changes towards a rights-based land policy, but this has since regressed.

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