The article explores the introduction, evolution and the elaborate protection of private landed property in Kenya as part of the larger process of colonization and the introduction and maintenance of capitalism as the dominant mode of production. Part of this process was the dissolution, or at...

The Taiwanese development experience from the late 1890s to 1960 is examined. It is argued that Taiwan does not represent a model of development that can be easily reproduced in many of today's less-developed nations. Socio-economic development of this territory during the Japanese colonial...

Based primarily on field data collected by the author from the tubewell-irrigated villages of Ludhiana and Amritsar districts of Punjab, the paper discusses the utilization of tubewells by different socio-economic categories of users in this state. The various 'modes of tubewell irrigation'...

This article first presents a brief background to El Salvador's agricultural sector and the 1980 agrarian reform programmes. Following that, it examines the differences between female-headed and male-headed households with regard to agricultural production, income and family labour. The...