The challenge of agrarian reform lies not only in the expropriation of farms or the recovery of public lands, but also in the capacity to generate new forms of organization and socio-economic linkages for the peasant. A review of the examples of agrarian reform in some Latin American countries...

After analysing briefly the situation which followed the crisis of the 1980s in Brazil, contrasting it with recent modifications in the patterns of industrialization on the world level, the author examines new economic trends and their consequences for the developing countries, with special...