Land Reform

Land reform (also agrarian reform, though that can have a broader meaning) involves the changing of laws, regulations or customs regarding land ownership. Land reform may consist of a government-initiated or government-backed property redistribution, generally of agricultural land. Land reform can, therefore, refer to transfer of ownership from the more powerful to the less powerful, such as from a relatively small number of wealthy (or noble) owners with extensive land holdings (e.g., plantations, large ranches, or agribusiness plots) to individual ownership by those who work the land. Such transfers of ownership may be with or without compensation; compensation may vary …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English

Kisan Mazdoor Commission (KMC), an initiative by the Nation for Farmers, is a collaboration of activists and organisations focussing on current challenges faced by primary producers, artisans and rural workers …

Land reforms remain an unfinished agenda. Recognize land rights of Adivasis and carry out land reforms. c. Land reforms to ensure security of tenure for small and marginal dalit farmers. b.


LC: Library of Congress · 2023 English

"LL File No. 2023-022255." "June 2023." "Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, …

1, 28, 29 (Mar. 29, 1978), https://perma.cc/5LJL-9NP4; Chineze Sophia Ibekwe, An Outline of Property Law and Essential Land Reforms for Nigeria, 5(2) J.


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 27 May 2022 English

One of the last remaining artisans of bamboo cowbells in Shibaje village, in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, explains the intricate nature of the craft in this video

When Indira Gandhi enforced land reforms [in the 1970s], we got ownership of the land,” he says.


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2022 English

This report was published in April 2022 by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New Delhi. It presents the results of a study titled "Trends of Public …

for the whole economy”. The implementation of land reform was a crucial factor in determining the extent of land in the absence of implementation of land reform, were able to make major investments in cultivation external trade as an instrument. The need for land reform did not just take a backseat; the effort was was to reverse the implementation of land reform altogether. 5 The critique of the agricultural policy outcomes be examined more closely. Reversal of land reform laws New economic policies in Indian agriculture


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 10 September 2021 Hindi

This report was published in September 2021 by the National Statistical Office of the government of India’s Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. It contains the results of a survey …

under owner like possession. In the States where land reform legislations had provided for full proprietorship


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 April 2021 English

This report was published on April 19, 2021, by Common Cause, which works on governance reforms, and Lokniti, a research programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies …

were cited as major contribu- tors to the growth of extremism, along with other factors such as failure to bring about land reforms and economic backwardness of the state.


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2020 English

A Study of the Agricultural Markets of Bihar, Odisha and Punjab was published in December 2020 by the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Advanced Study for India (CASI). The …

Koraput, Odisha Introduction to the Project Chapter One Broadly stated, Indian farming policies initially focused on land reforms in the 1950s to reduce acute landlessness and land inequality, especially among marginalized social groups.


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2020 English

The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) is an ongoing project of the Government of India that aims to document and study how languages have changed in the country over the …

of Ashok and the Gupta kings. Several acts of land reform are attributed to him. The remains of a grand


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 30 November 2020 English

This report was published by Network of Rural & Agrarian Studies (a nationwide collective of scholars, researchers, farmers, students and activists) on November 30, 2020. It aims to provide a …

High inequality in land distribution stemming from colonial policies of land settlement and failed land reforms, have created


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 May 2020 English

The 2020 Global Nutrition Report discusses inequity in food and health systems, and its relationship to malnutrition. The report has been written and compiled by the Independent Expert Group of …

support for stable employment, agrarian and land reform.50 • Adopt government-wide approaches to policy


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