Land Tenure Center Newsletter
Number 83, Spring 2002, p. 11
No. 48. Challenging Conventional Wisdom: Smallholder Perceptions and
Tenure Security in the Cotton Belt of Northern Mozambique
Paul J. Strasberg and Scott Kloeck-Jenson, April 2002, 62 pages,
paper copy $7.00
http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ltc//wp48.html
Challenges widely held beliefs about land tenure and access in the smallholder sector in Mozambique. Although the new land law may improve tenure security for smallholders who experience conflicts with largeholders, provisions to safeguard local community land-use rights will not be sufficient to eliminate and/or adjudicate land conflicts between smallholders. Land access was found to be closely linked to key welfare indicators such as income and calorie availability; a weak nonfarm economy heightens the importance of land for the welfare of rural families. These results are surprising and contradict views held by many in the policy community in Mozambique that land access is unconstrained for smallholders.
No. 49. Agrarian Reform in Uzbekistan and other Central Asian Countries
Peter C. Bloch, May 2002, 26 pages, paper copy $4.00
http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ltc//wp49.html
Discusses the similarities and differences among the five Central Asian countries that gained their independence at the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and which have followed different paths of transition to a market economy in the agricultural sector. The paper then explores the results of Uzbekistan’s choice to proceed “step by step,” as the government says, by examining the country’s characteristics of agrarian structure, agricultural production, and policy concerns. In contrast to the other countries, Uzbekistan has attempted to control its progress towards market-oriented agriculture very closely, with the result that the agrarian sector looks on the surface very similar today to what it looked like in 1991.
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