Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to government-initiated or government-backed redistribution of

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(see

land reform Land reform is a form of agrarian reform involving the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership. Land reform may consist of a government-initiated or government-backed property redistribution, generally of agricultural ...

) or, broadly, to an overall redirection of the

agrarian system An agrarian system is the dynamic set of economic and technological factors that affect agricultural practices. It is premised on the idea that different systems have developed depending on the natural and social conditions specific to a particula ...

of the country, which often includes land reform measures. Agrarian reform can include

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measures, training,

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s, etc. The

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evaluates agrarian reform using five dimensions: (1) stocks and market liberalization, (2) land reform (including the development of land markets), (3) agro-processing and input supply channels, (4) urban finance, (5) market institutions. The United Nations thesaurus sees agrarian reform as a component of agricultural economics and policy, with a specific impact on rural sociology, and broader than land reform, describing agrarian reform as:

Reforms covering all aspects of agrarian institutions, including land reform, production and supporting services structure, public administration in rural areas, rural social welfare and educational institutions, etc.

Cousins defines the difference between agrarian reform and land reform as follows:

Land reform… is concerned with rights in land, and their character, strength and distribution, while… grarian reformfocuses not only on these but also a broader set of issues: the class character of the relations of production and distribution in farming and related enterprises, and how these connect to the wider class structure. It is thus concerned economic and political power and the relations between them…Agrarian reform and the 'two economies': transforming South Africa's countryside
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Along similar lines, a 2003

report states,

…A key precondition for land reform to be feasible and effective in improving beneficiaries' livelihoods is that such programs fit into a broader policy aimed at reducing poverty and establishing a favourable environment for the development of productive
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agriculture by beneficiaries.

Examples of other issues include "

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security" for "farm workers, labour tenants, … farm dwellers… ndtenant peasants", which makes these workers and tenants better prospects for receiving private-sector loans; "infrastructure and support services";Cousins, ''op. cit.'', p.12 government support of "forms of rural enterprise" that are "complementary" to agriculture;Cousins, ''op. cit.'', p.14 and increased community participation of government decisions in rural areas.

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Global Food Security Threatened by Corporate Land Grabs in Poor Countries
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'' *Springer, S. 2012

"Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia."] Journal of Agrarian Change, vol, 13, no. 4, pp. 520–546, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0366.2012.00368.x {{DEFAULTSORT:Agrarian Reform Agrarian politics Land reform pt:Reforma agrária

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