Suchergebnisse

Workshop, December 3-4, 1997, Y. C. James Yen Center, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Silang, Cavite, Philippines

AbstractLatin American military dictatorships of the twentieth century were often right-wing, elitist and violent. A marked exception was the left-wing Peruvian military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado. More exceptional still was the government's use of visual media. Between 1968 and 1970 it produced approximately 20 posters, printed in editions of 50,000 to 200,000, to promote the radical Agrarian Reform Law. These posters provide vibrant representations of the agrarian reform's ideological aspects, which have been under-studied. A detailed exploration of visual communication shows that the government deployed aesthetically sophisticated propaganda and symbols to encourage social participation in the reform.

ENRIQUE MAYER: Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform. Durham,NC: Duke University Press, 2009.

Patrón and peón: labor and authority on the great estates -- Binding ties: campesino sexuality and family negotiations -- Making men: labor mobilization and agrarian reform -- Promoting gender mutualism: rural education, mothers centers, and family planning -- Struggling for land: worker bosses and campesina militants -- Revolutionizing women: popular unity and female mobilization -- Coming apart: struggle, sex, and social crisis.

The article deals with the issues of legal regulation of the agrarian policy of the Soviet state in the early 1950s. The author highlights the main administrative and legal methods of implementing the agrarian reforms.

This case study of the Gciriku district of Okavango illustrates the general problems confronting rural households in northern Namibia. The findings suggest that an immediate precondition for improved yields in the Gciriku district is not access to more land per se, but rather access to improved inputs to existing land cultivation. Better credit, marketing and extension services and significant improvements to farming methods and agricultural productivity must be achieved. (DÜI-Hff)