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Promised Land Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform

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ISBN-10: 0935028285

ISBN-13: 9780935028287

Edition: 2006

Authors: Peter Rosset, Michael Courville, Raj Patel, Carmen Diana Deere

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Political Science / Third World Development
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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Institute for Food & Development Policy/Food First Books
Publication date: 11/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Raj R. Patel, M.D. is a resident physician interested in how nutrition can help prevent chronic disease. He scoured the scientific literature on diet and learned what the benefits of the Mediterranean Diet and other traditional cuisines are to human health. His research eventually led him to write "The Healthy Indian Diet." He will be leaving Houston for the San Francisco Bay Area.Hetal Jannu and Anuja Balasubramanian, co-founders of ShowMeTheCurry.com, use their step-by-step cooking videos to guide viewers to create delicious and healthy Indian cuisine at home. They provide a modern and practical approach to traditional Indian cooking, much of which appears in "The Healthy Indian Diet."…    

Preface : a history and overview of the land research action network
Land and agrarian reform : historical perspectives
Introduction and overview : the resurgence of agrarian reform in the twenty-first century
The agrarian question in Guatemala
An introduction to land and agrarian reform in Zimbabwe
Land and agrarian reform in South Africa
Land reform in India : issues and challenges
Land reform : critical debates and perspectives
Introduction : critical themes in agrarian reform
The underlying assumptions, theory, and practice of neoliberal land policies
Thailand's land titling program : securing land for the poor?
Land concentration in Mexico after PROCEDE
Colombia : agrarian reform - fake and genuine
The World Bank's market-based land reform in Brazil
Gender and land
Indigenous peoples : land, territory, autonomy, and self-determination
Agrarian reform : alternatives and resistance
Introduction : alternatives : between the state above and the movement below
Surviving crisis in Cuba : the second Agrarian reform and sustainable agriculture
Land for people not for profit in Venezuela
Learning to participate : the MST experience in Brazil
Regional impacts of land reform in Brazil
Conclusion : moving forward : agrarian reform as part of food sovereignty