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Bericht über den Einsatz polnischer Ökologen bei Maßnahmen zur Landerschließung in den venezolanischen Llanos während der 70er Jahre, insbesondere im Bundesstaat Apure

Aufgaben der Ernährungswirtschaft bis 1980. Konsequenzen: Landerschließung, Produktivitätssteigerung durch Mechanisierung und Düngemittel, Substitution des Getreidefehlbestandes durch Weizenimporte. Argumente für eine neue Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik. (DÜI)

Staatliche Planungs- und Realisationsdefizite bei dem Versuch, durch Urbarmachung in Wüstengebieten den demographischen Druck in den ländlichen Gebieten Oberägyptens abzuschwächen. Zahlenmaterial zu Plan und Realität des Entwicklungsprogrammes. (DÜI-Cmü)

O cerrado mineiro passou nas duas ultimas decadas por um processo de ocupacao nos moldes da modernizacao capitalista da agricultura que teve como um de seus pressupostos a visao da regiao como uma area deserta. Seus poucos habitantes nao teriam o necessario "espirito aventureiro", para lancar-se na conquista da regiao. O artigo procura contrapor-se a essa visao por meio de uma analise da novela "Campo Geral", de Joao Guimaraes Rosa. (Novos Estudos)

The author reports what happened to several hundred Honduran pioneers who left their homes on the drought-stricken South coast for a fresh start in the fertile North

The expansion of the agricultural frontier into tropical forests in Latin America is frequently seen as a monolithic process which is similarly occurring across countries in the region, particularly within the Amazon Basin. Differences in frontier dynamics have not been extensively explored. A better understanding of the processes and patterns which continue to shape the development and use of Latin America's tropical forests, however, requires a better understanding of the different as well as similar forces affecting them. This paper responds to this need by considering the different patterns of agricultural expansion which have characterised tropical forest regions within one country, Ecuador. (Ibero Am/DÜI)

Se presenta un estudio dedicado a la vertiente occidental de la Cordillera de los Andes, en la provincia del Cotopaxi, acerca de la produccion de mora, con una caracterizacion social definida de pequenos colonizadores procedentes de las zonas altas de la provincia en busca de mejores posibilidades de vida, que han descendido paulatinamente hacia el subtropico, siguiendo los caminos del aguardiente y la panela. Este proceso ha sido alimentado por la coincidencia de diversos factores: colonizacion impulsada por el estado, presion demografica, apertura y mejoramiento de vias de comunicacion. La particularidad de la zona es que mediante colonizacion se entregan lotes de 10 a 20 has. (Ecuad Debate/DÜI)

This paper analyzes the 'Minor Property Housing' (XCQF) phenomenon. XCQF is an illegal residential building, constructed on rural collective land in suburban areas by a joint land development of township and village governments, land developers, and peasants for selling and renting to non-local urbanites. We argue that XCQF became a fait accompli not to be demolished nor legalized by higher authorities because the interests of lower-level governments and those non-elites converge. As a result, they jointly defy the central government and higher-level governments' land policies. It brings a rare opportunity for grassroots officials, entrepreneurs, and ordinary citizens to find a manner of co-existence, shaping this positive-sum coalition game unlike the near zero-sum game of other exploitative land developments. The XCQF phenomenon suggests that other patterns of coalition building, beyond what is in the current literature of 'rightful resistance', exist. (J Contemp China/GIGA)