This note reviews the role legal aid can play as a catalyst to empower and strengthen the livelihoods of the poor in a World Bank-funded project in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP), the AP Rural Poverty Reduction Project. This note shows how land-related legal aid activities can be...

Over the past few decades, while land reform has made little headway in most of India, West Bengal has achieved notable land reform progress. This progress has occurred in three areas: the redistribution of agricultural land, the regulation of sharecropping relationships, and the distribution of...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Poverty, law and land tenure reform -- 2. Tenancy reform -- 3. Redistributing land to agricultural laborers -- 4. Micro-plots for the rural poor -- 5. Gender and land tenure reform -- 6. Land tenure reform in India -- 7. From collective to...

Having outlined international experience and research on large-scale farming issues that may be relevant for China, the authors discuss their field research observations on large scale farming experiments in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang provinces. They offer recommendations concerning...