Land, landlords and sustainable livelihoods: The impact of agrarian reform on a coconut hacienda in the Philippines

Vista, Brandon M.; Nel, Etienne; Binns, Tony

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.06.002

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“…These findings about the limited socio‐economic improvements after land redistribution in coconut farms in Davao Oriental correspond with a recently published study about the impacts of the CARP programme on the daily livelihoods of coconut farmers in Del Rosario, Bicol (Vista et al ., ). In this study it is stated that after land redistribution, income remains low, farmers are struggling with the fluctuations in the price of copra and as a consequence people's livelihoods remain trapped at a subsistence level.…”

Section: Vulnerability Debt Bondage and Dispossessionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Land reform, dispossession and new elites: A case study on coconut plantations in Davao Oriental, Philippines

Adam

2013

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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This article elaborates on how agrarian social structures and relations have changed after redistributive land reform under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) on coconut plantations in the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines. Three major arguments can be derived from this question. First, despite the objective of this land reform to transfer control over land and labour to poor agricultural workers, a majority of the coconut farmers are trapped in new forms of debt-bondage and, as a result, are forced to transfer the rights over their resources and/or land.Second, a regional business elite has managed to obtain control over these lands and resources through all sorts of informal arrangements. Lastly, medium-sized landed elites in coconut plantations have been disadvantaged because of CARP implementation since they became dispossessed from their sole form of economic power, land.

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Section: Vulnerability Debt Bondage and Dispossessionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Land reform, dispossession and new elites: A case study on coconut plantations in Davao Oriental, Philippines

Adam

2013

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“…The framework provides a new research perspective for relevant scholars. On this basis, scholars have discussed and analyzed the structure and spatial characteristics of rural households' livelihood capital as well as rural households' livelihood strategy selection [16,17], the impact of livelihood capital and livelihood risk on livelihood strategies [18,19], the influence of climate change, labor migration and returning farmland to forests on rural households' livelihood capital [20][21][22], and livelihood risk and sustainability [23][24][25] from different research scales. For example, Baffoe and Matsuda assessed rural livelihood assets from a gender perspective in Ghana [12].…”

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Sensitivity of Rural Households’ Livelihood Strategies to Livelihood Capital in Poor Mountainous Areas: An Empirical Analysis in the Upper Reaches of the Min River, China

Wang

et al. 2019

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Exploring the sensitivity of rural households’ livelihood strategies to livelihood capital is of great significance for improving rural households’ livelihood levels. This paper selects 23 livelihood capital measurement indicators and conducts an in-depth survey of rural households. In addition, the entropy method and a weighted comprehensive model are used to explore the basic characteristics of rural households’ livelihood capital in the upper reaches of the Min River, China, in 2017. Furthermore, econometric models are used to analyze the sensitivity of rural households’ livelihood strategies to livelihood capital. As indicated from the research, the livelihood capital levels of different types of rural households in the study area are not equivalent. The types of rural households with different livelihood strategies can be ordered in terms of quantity as follows: non-agricultural type > non-agricultural dominant type > agricultural dominant type > pure agricultural type. Livelihood strategies have different sensitivities to different livelihood capital measurement indicators. Among these indicators, cash income, the number of relatives and friends available for financial assistance, and the number of civil servants have positive effects on the livelihood strategy selection of non-agricultural dominant rural households and non-agricultural rural households. However, the average age of laborers, area of cultivated land and gardens, number of livestock and poultry, and present value of production tools have negative effects. These evaluation results can provide a scientific decision-making basis for the formulation of poverty alleviation policies by relevant government departments.

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“…Within some (arguably limited) parts of the concession areas, the project could thus have had a legitimate function to perform, partly as a response to contentious post‐land reform arrangements (Borras and Franco, ). As in Mindanao (Vista et al., ), while previously landless farmers in Palawan have secured their own private plots of land, the land reform process seems to have rarely improved livelihoods, due to lack of credit, technical support for agricultural technologies and market access.…”

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Can the Wrongs be Righted? Prospects for Remedy in the Philippine Oil Palm Agro‐industry

Larsen¹,

Dimaano²,

Pido³

2018

Development and Change

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State-based and corporate remedies are increasingly offered as solutions to intractable issues provoked by land-based investments, such as the oil palm agro-industry. This article critiques this shift towards procedural governance fixes, drawing on theories of the legitimizing function of corporate responsibility and mechanisms of elite capture in agrarian states. The authors contrast the ambition of remedy with local reality in one controversial oil palm project in Palawan Province, the Philippines, showing that it was operated by companies, banks, agencies and politicians who either lacked the capacity to rein in the project once it became evident that it was causing harm to farmers, or showed no interest in doing so. As one of the first detailed examinations of the growing oil palm sector in the Philippines, the study adds to understandings of the shifting nature of elite capture through transnational agro-industry. It also shows that the remedies discourse remains rooted in colonial doctrines and neoliberal constructs and thus tends to deflect attention away from more appropriate harm prevention strategies. The authors argue that functional remedies will only arise once states and companies confront competing land and resource claims and relinquish more control over new procedures to local and indigenous communities.Development and Change 50(5):

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Land, landlords and sustainable livelihoods: The impact of agrarian reform on a coconut hacienda in the Philippines

Cited by 25 publications

References 14 publications

Land reform, dispossession and new elites: A case study on coconut plantations in Davao Oriental, Philippines

Land reform, dispossession and new elites: A case study on coconut plantations in Davao Oriental, Philippines

Sensitivity of Rural Households’ Livelihood Strategies to Livelihood Capital in Poor Mountainous Areas: An Empirical Analysis in the Upper Reaches of the Min River, China

Can the Wrongs be Righted? Prospects for Remedy in the Philippine Oil Palm Agro‐industry

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