Land redistribution does not make a revolution. A critical view on the Costa Rican peasant settlements in the Arenal-Tempisque Irrigation District, 1981-2016

Costa Rica is not an exceptional case to the rest of Central America in terms of its agrarian history and redistributive reforms. The creation of ITCO in 1960 and its project of land colonization with peasant settlements—the least threatening of all styles of agrarian reform—fails as an agrarian re...

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Main Author: Silvia Cristina Vasquez Olguin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudios de Historia Agraria de América Latina 2022-07-01
Series:Historia Agraria de América Latina
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Online Access:https://haal.cl/index.php/haal/article/view/59