Land Reform in El Salvador and the Chapultepec Peace Accord

Bibliographic Data

ID2158156
AuthorsSamuel A Mcreynold, Samuel A McReynolds (University of New England, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume30
Issue1
Pages135-169
Publication date2002-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066150412331333262
OpenAlexW2000028321
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited14

The focus of this article is on the land transfer programme (PTT) carried out in El Salvador over the past decade as a result of the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accord. Building on the agrarian reforms of the 1980s, the PTT beneficiaries were smallholders created by the state and drawn from ex-combatants on both sides (the FMLN, the military) in the war. Among the issues considered are the forms of tenure that resulted, and the agrarian debt incurred. Also examined is the socio-economic profile of the PTT beneficiaries, together with their assessment of the positive/negative impact on their lives of the reform programme. Finally, the achievements and failures of the PTT are evaluated in terms of the wider national/international context, and the resulting contradiction between the objectives of the agrarian reform and the determinants of global markets

Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Context (archaeology · Contradiction · Debt · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Land reform · Political science · State (computer science · Land Rights and Reforms · Finance

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