Povertology and agrarian reform
Urioste, Miguel
The failure of several third world Agrarian Reforms and the reactions that this has sparked provides us with an opportunity to add to the debate with a few points of reflection. Within the framework of the International Land Coalition (ILC), a global network of civil society and intergovernmental organizations, a number of nationally-based institutions are discussing the issue of rural poverty from another standpoint, one that is quite old and nearly forgotten: poverty reduction strategies cannot be considered as such if they do not change the realities that produce rural poverty. The current situation is even more serious and contradictory given the fact that never before in history has the world produced such colossal wealth in the northern countries; this globalisation of wealth in the first world is also only possible thanks to an equally colossal generation of poor populations and generalised rural poverty. The globalisation of poverty and inequities in the southern countries has become the main constraint to rural development.
Event: Land Policies Legal Empowerment of the Poor
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