State-Led Land Reform and Local Institutional Change: Land Titles, Land Markets and Tenure Security in Mexican Communities

Bouquet, Emmanuelle

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.08.015

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“…From that moment onwards, Morelos was officially an ejido-a community-based organization in which members, or ejidatarios, held permanent usufruct rights to one or several plots. Under this system, any form of land transaction was outlawed since the Mexican government owned the ejidos (Bouquet 2009). The newly obtained status of ejido changed the local governance structure by inducing new governance institutions that replaced the agrarian committee: an executive body, an oversight council, and a general assembly.…”

Section: Formation Of the Ejido: Increased Social Stratificationmentioning

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Trust and livelihood adaptation: evidence from rural Mexico

Groenewald

Bulte

2012

Agric Hum Values

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This paper explores the relationship between trust and household adaptation strategies for a sample of respondents in a Mexican agrarian community. In particular, we analyze how levels of personalized, generalized, and institutionalized trust shape the adaptation strategies of smallholders, and find that households characterized by low levels of generalized and institutionalized trust are less likely to be involved in a diversified livelihood strategy. Instead, they tend to continue with the traditional activity of maize production. In contrast, high levels of personalized trust are associated with a livelihood strategy that focuses on cattle breeding and pasture growing. We argue that trust explains why some people more readily 'catch up' with opportunities created by an expanding market, while others lag behind in poverty. This paper thus seeks to contribute to the debate on the role of trust in economic actions and decision-making processes of smallholders.

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Section: Formation Of the Ejido: Increased Social Stratificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trust and livelihood adaptation: evidence from rural Mexico

Groenewald

Bulte

2012

Agric Hum Values

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“…The main purpose of the reform was to enhance security in land tenure and land transfers by creating a system for formal transfers and registration. Greater security was expected to foster agricultural growth through higher incentives and opportunities for investment (Bouquet 2009(Bouquet : 1390.…”

Section: La Antigua Ejidatarios Land Strategies After the Article 27 mentioning

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Social capital formation in mexican <em>ejidos</em>. Land decisions after the article 27 constitutional reform

Garita¹,

Delgado-Serrano²

2014

Rev. int. sociol.

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The Mexican ejidos are complex land-based structures developed by the post-revolutionary state formation . The success of some ejidos was based on trust ties. With the economic liberalization of the country and the changes to the national legal system in the early 1990s (specifically Article 27 reform in 1992), the state structures that ran the ejidos were reorganized, and individual land tenure strategies reappeared. In La Antigua (Veracruz), a majority of the ejidatarios (71%) reacted to this situation by adopting the dominio pleno (full domain) land tenure regime. In analyzing these features and their connections with diachronic social capital, this paper discusses the role of the national structures and institutions across generations and the destruction of trust in the ejidos. Specific ejido histories help to compare pre-ejido land strategies with the post-Article 27 reform strategies in effect today. It will be concluded that inefficient coordination of the micro, meso and macro levels of the state creates distrust and encourages individual action. KeywordsLa Antigua; Coleman; land; State; trust; Veracruz; Woolcock. resuMenLos ejidos mexicanos son complejas estructuras de propiedad colectiva de la tierra, desarrolladas por el Estado post-revolucionario . El éxito de algunos de estos ejidos ha estado basado en los lazos de confianza entre los campesinos. A principios de los noventa, la liberalización económica y la reforma del Artículo 27 Constitucional en 1992, favorecieron una reorganización de las estructuras del Estado que dirigían el ejido y la reaparición de estrategias individuales de tenencia de la tierra. El ejido de La Antigua (Veracruz) presenta la particularidad de que un 71% de los ejidatarios reaccionaron antes este escenario adoptando el régimen de dominio pleno de tenencia de la tierra. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la conexión entre esta situación y i) el capital social diacrónico existente en este ejido y ii) el papel de las estructuras e instituciones nacionales en la generación o destrucción de la confianza en los ejidos. El análisis de historias particulares de este ejido ayuda a comparar las estrategias anteriores a la formación ejidal con las devenidas tras la reforma del Artículo 27. Se llega a la conclusión de que la ineficiente coordinación de los niveles micro, meso y macro del Estado, ha generado desconfianza y hecho que los ejidatarios actúen de manera individualista. Palabras ClaveLa Antigua; Coleman; Confianza; Estado; Tierra; Veracruz; Woolcock. revista internaCional de soCioloGía (ris)

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“…In such situations, the local administration had decided to stop distribution of khas land among landless in 2001.They also decided that they would not distribute land until the final list of eligible landless people was prepared. In the next several years, several government officials had changed through government mandates but they could not finalize the lists for lack of human and financial resources 5 .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The most important impediments are lack of information about khas land for improper and insufficient recording of rights and maps, lack of awareness among landless people about their rights to khas land, illegal occupation of khas land, absence of transparent processes to identify khas land as well as landless families, a low level of technical support and capacity, and failure to control corruption at the local level [3], [4]. [5]. One fascinating dimension is that although all upazilas 1 (sub-districts) of Bangladesh are working under the same laws, rules and regulations, the distribution rate of government agriculture land among landless and near landless people is not identical in all upazilas.…”

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Collaboration between Government and Civil Society: Evidence from the Implementation of Land Reform Program in Bangladesh

Islam¹

2013

IOSR-JHSS

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Land reform is a pivotal mechanism in order to improve the livelihood of underprivileged people of developing countries in the world. But the implementation of land reform programs is always a complicated issue for these countries. The reason is, in most of the cases, the governments of the third world countries more or less lack the capacity to manage the resistance created by various social groups against land reform. Moreover, the prospective recipients of land reform are not generally aware about their rights to land as land related laws and regulations in developing countries are complicated and most of the potential beneficiaries are illiterate. This study shows that in Bangladesh, public agencies can remove the above mentioned barriers and execute land reform program effectively when they work closely with civil society organizations or vice versa. The main lesson of this study is that in the developing countries, the state-society driven approach can initiate and implement distributive reform programs effectively. Furthermore, this approach promotes participatory development as well as good governance in the developing countries of the world.

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State-Led Land Reform and Local Institutional Change: Land Titles, Land Markets and Tenure Security in Mexican Communities

Cited by 50 publications

References 31 publications

Trust and livelihood adaptation: evidence from rural Mexico

Trust and livelihood adaptation: evidence from rural Mexico

Social capital formation in mexican <em>ejidos</em>. Land decisions after the article 27 constitutional reform

Collaboration between Government and Civil Society: Evidence from the Implementation of Land Reform Program in Bangladesh

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