Lessons from the experience of land reform in Iran : impact of nationalisation of rangelands on nomadic pastoralism
In the aftermath of the Iranian Constitutional Revolutionn of 1906, several attempts tackled the land tenure system in our country. Yet the greatest impact on our agriculture and natural resources befell from the joint policies of Agrarian Reform and Nationalisation of Natural Resources as part of the 1963 White Revolutionn of the Shah. These reforms altered the structure of rural society and its livelihood system in a fundamental way, in particular as they severely weakened or even destroyed customary institutions of natural resource management and mutual aid associations, such as for rangeland and water use and agriculture. These reforms failed, however, to replace these with suitable alternatives and rather set up an expensive and inefficient government bureaucracy.
Event: A vision for the future : International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
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