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Agrarian Reform in El Salvador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

David Browning
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The subject of agrarian reform in El Salvador has an importance which extends beyond considerations of that country's immediate crisis. The agrarian problems in many parts of Latin America originate from similar sets of conditions, but nowhere have these conditions reached a more critical point than in El Salvador. Consequently the experience of agrarian reform there is likely to anticipate those problems of agrarian change which eventually will have to be faced by most Latin American countries.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , November 1983 , pp. 399 - 426
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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18 Figures quoted in this section on the implementation of reform were supplied to the author during visits to El Salvador in 1982 by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Institute of Agrarian Transformation (ISTA), and the National Financial Institute for Agricultural Lands (FINATA). Principal published studies on the reform programme since 1981 include the following: Simon, L. R and Stephens, J. C, El Salvador Land Reform 1980–81: Impact Audit (Oxfam–America, 02 1981);Google ScholarMinisterio de Agricultura y Ganadería, Evaluación del Proceso de Reforma Agraria (San Salvador, 09 1981);Google ScholarChecchi and Company, Agrarian Reform in El Salvador: Process and Progress (Clemson University, South Carolina, 01 1982);Google ScholarCentro Universitario de Documentación y Información, Fichas para Analisis No. 9 (San Salvador, 05 1982);Google ScholarUSAID – El Salvador, Agrarian Reform in El Salvador (San Salvador, 08 1982);Google ScholarStrasma, J., Gore, P. et al. Agrarian Reform in El Salvador (Washington D.C., 01 1983).Google Scholar

17 Fig. 2 is a simplified representation of the Mapa de Haciendas Interveridas en la Primera Etapa del Proceso de Reforma Agraria y Antiguas del ISTA, prepared by ISTA in August 1980 at a scale of 1: 200,000.

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