Most land reforms have involved transferring rights of ownership from wealthy landlords to poor, small-scale farmers working the land under various kinds of tenancy arrangements. These are often ...

When the Peoples’ Power movement brought down Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, land reform was one of its most important demands. But even after Corazon Aquino had been elected President ...

Ben Cousins receives funding from the National Research Foundation. What can South Africa learn about land reforms from wider global and historical experiences in the 20th century? Most land reforms ...

Freeing the tiller from the soil that he toils. This has been one of the fundamental goals of most democratic nations. In our part of the world, agrarian emancipation still continues to be an ongoing ...

Land conflicts in Indonesia have nearly doubled under President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo as his administration pursues an investor-first economic agenda that has sidelined local communities and the ...

This story originally appeared in De Olho nos Ruralistas on Oct. 30, 2021, and is shared with permission via the Progressive International’s Wire. Focusing their aims on a single issue of land reform, ...

Grassroots organizations are settling new areas in the Brazilian Amazon amid disappointment that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been slow to jump-start the stalled land reform agenda.