Latin America and Caribbean

Available Publications

Editor's note:
LTC can no longer provide paper copies of any of these titles
so please disregard the "Out of Print" notations and prices.

We are making many of our older publications available online.
Check the online publications page to see what older publications become available.
Also, the papers listed below have a link to the electronic version if they are now online.

LTC publications often can be borrowed through interlibrary loan.
The University of Wisconsin library will have titles of publications
that we no longer have in stock. Information on interlibrary loan found at:
http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ltc/libsub.html#interlibrary.

Latin America Regional

• Reprint 149
  "Tenure in the Context of Sustainable Use in Latin America," by Alberto M. Vargas. August 1999. Reprinted from: Tenure and Sustainable Land Use, edited by J.A.E. Oglethorpe. Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, UK: IUCN, 1999, p. 49-56.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• WP 27
  "Land Tenancy in Asia, Africa and Latin America: A Look to the Past and a View to the Future," by Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel and Jolyne Melmed-Sanjak. April 1999. 76 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  Also available on-line
  
  
• RP 125
  "Agro-Exports and the Rural Resource Poor in Latin America: Policy options for Achieving Broadly Based Growth," by Michael R. Carter, Bradford B. Barham, Dina Mesbah, and Denise Stanley. December 1995. 77 p. (abstract)
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• Other LTC Publication
  Empresas forestales comunitarias en las Américas: estudios de caso: presentados en el Simposio "Aprovechamientos Forestales en las Américas, Manejo Comunitaria y Sostenibilidad," Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison, 3-4 febrero 1995. Published jointly by Land Tenure Center and Institute for Environmental Studies, 1995. 192 p.
  $12.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• LTC 149
  "Property Law Innovation in Latin America with Recommendations," by Steven E. Hendrix. May 1993. 65 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• LTC 147
  "Tenure Regimes and Forest Management: Case Studies in Latin America," by Nancy Forster and David Stanfield. March 1993. 39 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• LTC 141
  "The Reform of Rural Land Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean: Research, Theory, and Policy Implications," by Eric B. Shearer, Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel, and Dina Mesbah. Includes "Economic Theory of Land Markets and Its Implications for the Land Access of the Rural Poor," by Michael R. Carter and Dina Mesbah (June 1990). April 1991. 104 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  Also available on-line
  
  
• LTC 132
  "Land Tenure Issues in Agricultural Development Projects in Latin America," by Thomas E. Schweigert. April 1989. 67 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• LTC 131
  "Farmland Transfers and the Role of Land Banks in Latin America," by Randy Stringer. April 1989. 29 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  

Bolivia

• WP 34
  "A Comparative Study of Land Tenure, Property Boundaries, and Dispute Resolution: Examples from Bolivia and Norway," by Mark R.G. Goodale and Per Kåre Sky. March 2000 33 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  Also available on-line
  
  
• Other LTC Publication
  Empresas forestales comunitarias en las Américas: estudios de caso: presentados en el Simposio "Aprovechamientos Forestales en las Américas, Manejo Comunitaria y Sostenibilidad," Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison, 3-4 febrero 1995. Published jointly by Land Tenure Center and Institute for Environmental Studies, 1995. 192 p.
  $12.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  

Caribbean Region

• LTC 141
  "The Reform of Rural Land Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean: Research, Theory, and Policy Implications," by Eric B. Shearer, Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel, and Dina Mesbah. Includes "Economic Theory of Land Markets and Its Implications for the Land Access of the Rural Poor," by Michael R. Carter and Dina Mesbah (June 1990). April 1991. 104 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  Also available on-line
  
  

Guyana

• WP 43
  "Patterns of Tenure Insecurity in Guyana," by Harold Lemel. April 2001. 43 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  Also available on-line
  
  

Ecuador

• RP 99
  "Hacienda Dissolution, Peasant Struggle, and Land Market in Ecuador's Central Highlands (Cantón Colta, Chimborazo Province)," by Mark Thurner. November 1989. 44 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• LTC 133
  "When the State Sidesteps Land Reform: Alternative Peasant Strategies in Tungurahua, Ecuador," by Nancy R. Forster. April 1989. 28 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  

Guatemala

• LTC 148
  "Gender, Cash Cropping, and Land Purchase Programs in Guatemala," by Carol V. Irvin. March 1993. 23 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• RP 107
  "The FUNDACEN Experience: Factors for Success and Failure in a Guatemalan Land Purchase Sale Program," by Elizabeth G. Dunn. May 1992. 133 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  

Haiti

• RP 95
  "Land Tenure and Land Use in Southern Haiti: Case Studies of the Les Anglais and Grande Ravine du Sud Watersheds," by Rebecca J. McLain and Douglas Stienbarger. April 1988. 252 p.
  $12.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• RP 94
  "Land Tenure Issues in Rural Haiti: Review of the Evidence," by Peter C. Bloch, Ginny Lambert, and Norman Singer, with contributions by Glenn R. Smucker. April 1988. 94 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  

Honduras

• LTC 149
  "Property Law Innovation in Latin America with Recommendations," by Steven E. Hendrix. May 1993. 65 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  

Mexico

• WP 23. North America series
  "Who Owns the Water? A Case Study of El Paso del Norte," by C. Richard Bath and Angela Petit. November 1998. 31 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  Also available on-line
  
  
• WP 21. North America series
  "Peasant Logic, Agrarian Policy, Land Mobility, and Land Markets in Mexico," by Roberto Diego Quintana, Luciano Concheiro Bórquez, and Ricardo Pérez Aviles. October 1998. 18 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  Also available on-line
  
  
• Other LTC Publication
  Empresas forestales comunitarias en las Américas: estudios de caso: presentados en el Simposio "Aprovechamientos Forestales en las Américas, Manejo Comunitaria y Sostenibilidad," Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison, 3-4 febrero 1995. Published jointly by Land Tenure Center and Institute for Environmental Studies, 1995. 192 p.
  $12.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• Other LTC Publication
  "Tenencia de la tierra y recursos hidráulicos en la región fronteriza México-Estados Unidos: El Valle de Mexicali," by Francisco A. Bernal R. June 1995. 33 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• LTC 149
  "Property Law Innovation in Latin America with Recommendations," by Steven E. Hendrix. May 1993. 65 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  

Nicaragua

• RP 120
  "Insecurity of Land Tenure in Nicaragua," by J. David Stanfield. January 1995. 50 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• RP 120-S
  "Inseguridad jurídica de los poseedores de tierra en Nicaragua," por J. David Stanfield. January 1996. 54 p. (abstract)
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• LTC 149
  "Property Law Innovation in Latin America with Recommendations," by Steven E. Hendrix. May 1993. 65 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  

Paraguay

• Campesinos, tierra y mercado, por Michael R. Carter y Luis Galeano; con Karen Anne Luz y Eduardo Zegarra. Asunción, Paraguay: Centro Paraguayo de Estudios Sociológicos, 1995. 201 p. (Publisher contact information: Centro Paraguayo de Estudios Sociológicos, Eligio Ayala 973, Asunción, Paraguay)
  Not available from LTC (Order from publisher)
  
  

Peru

• RP 131
  "Formalizing Informality: The Praedial Registration System in Peru," by Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel and Grenville Barnes. April 1999. 53 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  Also available on-line
  
  
• Other LTC Publication
  Empresas forestales comunitarias en las Américas: estudios de caso: presentados en el Simposio "Aprovechamientos Forestales en las Américas, Manejo Comunitaria y Sostenibilidad," Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison, 3-4 febrero 1995. Published jointly by Land Tenure Center and Institute for Environmental Studies, 1995. 192 p.
  $12.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• LTC 150
  "Interplay among Land Law and Policy, the Environment, the War on Drugs, Narcoterrorism, and Democratization: Perspectives on Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley," by Steven E. Hendrix. June 1993. 41 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• LTC 149
  "Property Law Innovation in Latin America with Recommendations," by Steven E. Hendrix. May 1993. 65 p.
  $7.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• RP 96
  "Interpreting the Parcellation of Peruvian Agricultural Producer Cooperatives," by Jolyne S. Melmed. August 1988. 39 p.
  $4.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  

Trinidad and Tobago

• RP 115
  "Land Tenure and the Management of Land Resources in Trinidad and Tobago, Part 1, Land Tenure," edited by David Stanfield and Norman Singer. July 1993. p. 1-272
  $12.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  
• RP 116
  "Land Tenure and the Management of Land Resources in Trinidad and Tobago, Part 2, Institutional Roots of Tenure Insecurity," edited by David Stanfield and Norman Singer. July 1993. p. 273-568.
  $12.00 (United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan; free elsewhere)
  
  

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