Redistributive Land Reform

In the face of environmental crises, wars and the rise of the far right, rethinking agrarian reform in the 21st century is an absolute necessity: this book does so brilliantly. * Morgan Ody, General Coordinator, La Via Campesina *
A timely intervention that places the historical question of land redistribution firmly back on the political agenda, with rural working people, indigenous peoples and peasants as central subjects of this transformation. An essential reading. * Lyn Ossome, Makerere University, USA *
This book clearly presents the need to tackle land concentration in order to close exclusion gaps, fight poverty and hunger and address climate change, soil degradation and biodiversity loss. * Martha Carvajalino, Former Minister of Agriculture and Conference President of ICARRD+20 in Cartagena, Colombia *
The revival of redistributive land reform in the twenty-first century is of critical importance, as this brilliant book convincingly demonstrates. * Jingzhong Ye, Professor at College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD), China Agricultural University, Beijing *
With land inequalities and food insecurity on the rise, this book is the most important collection of analyses of land reforms published in the last 20 years. * Francesco Pierri, Global Land Observatory, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome *
In this much needed book, leading intellectuals show the way forward to rethink land reform for a more just and democratic future. * Annie Shattuck, Indiana University, USA *
This magnificent collection by a team of world-class scholar-activists provides cutting edge international case studies and compelling arguments in favour of radical redistributive agrarian reform. * Marc Edelman, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York *

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.

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