The Farm: The Misused Income Expansion Base of Emerging Nations

Contribution of land tenure structures to agricultural development in Sudan through incentives, knowledge and capital

“…I'Jhatever the source, the remedial hypothesis stated in Chapter Two (III) would serve as a guide for evaluating the success of alternative land tenure structures in terms of goal achievement. Recent discussions in the economics literature have been concerned with the objectives of agrarian reforms in less advanced countries in general(102,103). Some have suggested that very little increase in agri cultural output can be expected in these areas unless major revisions in the ownership and tenancy pattern are first carried out(102).…”

“…Recent discussions in the economics literature have been concerned with the objectives of agrarian reforms in less advanced countries in general(102,103). Some have suggested that very little increase in agri cultural output can be expected in these areas unless major revisions in the ownership and tenancy pattern are first carried out(102). Included are usually such measures as forced acquisition of land by the government and re-allocation of this land in size units which can be cultivated efficiently using modern agricultural implements(102).Others have maintained that reforms policies aiming at larger units of cultivation and the establishment of large cooperative farms using heavy equipment are undesirable on the basis that increases in output per acre are a much more important criterion in these countries than increases in the output per man hour(103).…”

“…Some have suggested that very little increase in agri cultural output can be expected in these areas unless major revisions in the ownership and tenancy pattern are first carried out(102). Included are usually such measures as forced acquisition of land by the government and re-allocation of this land in size units which can be cultivated efficiently using modern agricultural implements(102).Others have maintained that reforms policies aiming at larger units of cultivation and the establishment of large cooperative farms using heavy equipment are undesirable on the basis that increases in output per acre are a much more important criterion in these countries than increases in the output per man hour(103). All of these studies have used some world reform experiences to support their conflicting claims.Inasmuch as there are differences in natural production conditions among the less developed countries, and in view of the different con straints conditioning a particular economic environment it is almost impossible to devise a generally applicable agrarian reform model to be pursued by any one particular less developed economy.…”