Redistributive Land Reform

Ian Scoones is a professor at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective to land, agriculture and livelihoods, he has worked on issues of environmental and agrarian change in Zimbabwe since 1985. He was the co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre focusing on the politics of sustainability and was principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant funded PASTRES project, which explored pastoralism and uncertainty across three continents.Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), the Netherlands. He is a member of the distinguished Erasmus Professor Program at EUR, Distinguished Professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing, and an associate of the Transnational Institute. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peasant Studies for fifteen years, until 2023.Ruth Hall is a full professor and is the acting director at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Ruth is editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies. She has co-founded several regional and global research networks: the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI), the BRICS Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies (BICAS), the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), and the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA).Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the Department of Global Development and Vice Provost for International Affairs at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. Her research includes work on international development, land use and distribution, social mobilization, agrarian societies and critical ethnography, including in Brazil.

• 1. Redistributive Land Reform: Challenges for the Twenty-first Century (Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, and Wendy Wolford) 2. The Bolivian Case: Limits and Possibilities of State-Led Agrarian Reform in Times of Liberalization (Gonzalo Colque)3. Land Struggles and Agrarian Reform in Brazil: Disputes over the Meanings of Land Redistribution (Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros and Ricardo Braga Brito)4. The Politics of Land Policies in Colombia (Lorenza Arango, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Darío Fajardo, and Itayosara Rojas Herrera) 5. Possibilities and Limits of Land Redistribution Programmes in the Philippines (Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Danilo T. Carranza and Jennifer C. Franco)6. Land Reforms in West Bengal, India: Agrarian Change, Inequality, and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights over Fifty Years (Rajanya Bose)7. The Conditions of Possibility – or Impossibility – of Radical Land Redistribution in South Africa (Ben Cousins and Ruth Hall)8. Redistributing Land in Zimbabwe: People, Places, and Politics over Forty-five Years (Tapiwa Chatikobo, Godfrey Mahofa, Felix Murimbarimba, and Ian Scoones)9. Beyond Redistribution: Towards Inclusive, Radical Land Relations for Transforming Food Systems in Scotland (Elise Wach, Tara Wight, and Roz Corbett)Conclusions