Agrarian Reform Policy in the Dominican Republic: Local Organization and Beneficiary Investment StrategiesThis book documents the importance of local organization as a key factor influencing agrarian reform policy outputs. Through analysis of data gathered through three in-depth ommunity level studies of Dominican agrarian reform settlements, this book reveals the link between organization, investment decisions, agricultural productivity and economic development. Contents: include: Land Reform, Agrarian Reform, and the Role of Beneficiary Organization; Land Reform Policy and the Political Economy of the Dominican Republic; Beneficiary Organization and ProductivityóThe Experience in Three Dominican Asentamientos; The Asentamiento Sergio Abigail Cabrera; The Asentamiento Rio Limpio; The Asentamiento Puesto Grande; Conclusion: Organization, Production and Agrarian Reform Policy; and The Escape Strategy: Implications for Government Policy. |
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activities agency Agrarian Institute agrarian reform beneficiaries agrarian reform policy agrarian reform settlements Article asentados asentamiento assigned association average BAGRICOLA beneficiary organization beneficiary production capital Carlos Guillen cattle Central Chapter colectivo collective action collective farm colony Committee cooperative Costa Rica costs Dajabon Dominican Agrarian Dominican Republic economic effect escape strategy Esman established export factors farm farmers group cohesion harvest Hispaniola IAD administrator IAD's income increase infrastructure inputs investment irrigation labor land distribution land quality land reform latifundios Latin America leadership loan officials organizational base parcelas parceleros Participation participatory experiences Peasant percent planting political problems propensity to organize Puesto Puesto Grande reform sector reforma agraria Republica Dominicana rice Rio Limpio Rural Development SAC members Santiago Santo Domingo Seligson sharecroppers social soil structure success sugar tareas Teresa Gutierrez Trujillo University Press variables yautia