After completion of their land reform program, countries such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan implemented land consolidation to effect economies of scale specifically in the adoption of modern technologies. Land consolidation plans included the physical reallocation of parcels, joint farming...

This note summarizes the key findings of the attached consultant report. India is still primarily a rural, agrarian economy in which land use and land rights are an emotional issue. Prior to 1990 the presumption was that only residual land (non agricultural) would be made available for...

The Government of India brought two new laws and amended an earlier one, all the three dealing with Agriculture in India, in 2020. The two new laws seek to promote barrier-free inter-state and intra-state trade in agricultural produce and allow farmers to engage with processors, aggregators,...

The paper starts with a basic undetermined model that specifies four principle actors: landlords, peasants, the non-agricultural sector, and the government. Peasants and landlords are assumed to behave differently according to their own separate institutional attitudes, production function,...

Kurmana Simha Chalam, b. 1948, educationist and political economist from Andhra Pradesh, India; papers presented at the National Seminar on "Human Development and Social Exclusion", held at Vishakhapatnam during 6-7 October 2008