Agrarian reform and structural change in Latin America

The Chilean case

Bibliographic Data

ID20303348
AuthorsSolon L Barraclough (Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, corresponding author), Solon Barraclough
Year1972
Volume8
Issue2
Pages163-181
Publication date1972-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220387208421395
OpenAlexW2095673179
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

Agrarian reform has been a central political issue in Chile during the last decade although less than 30 per cent of the country's population is agricultural. The Christian Democratic government elected in 1964 in tiated a land reform over rightist opposition with the pirmary objective of eliminating the traditional latifundia and granting land to some 100,000 peasant families. Only one‐fourth of this goal had been met in 1970 when a coalition of socialists, communists and other leftist parties elected socialist Salvador Allende president. The new government's programme promises a ‘transition to socialism’ including a far more profound and sweeping agrarian reform than the one begun by the previous administration. Realization of such an agrarian reform poses difficult political, social and economic problems. In this article we attempt to define the major issues and to analyse policy alternatives facing the new government

Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agrarian system · Agriculture · Communism · Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Land reform · Latin Americans · Left-wing politics · Opposition (politics) · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Socialism · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Regional Development and Innovation

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