Land Tenure and Planned Social Change: A Case from Vicos, Peru

1959 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Holmberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Developmental Outcomes ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Status ◽  
Modernization Process

In 1952, Cornell University, in collaboration with the Instituto Indigenista Peruano, sublet, for a period of five years, an hacienda called Vicos, a Quechua-speaking community of about 2,000 inhabitants located in the highlands of northcentral Peru, for the purpose of conducting a research and development program on the modernization process. One of the principal developmental outcomes of this program to date has been a shift in the status of Vicos from a dependent hacienda community, controlled and administered largely from the outside, to an independent indigenous community, controlled and administered largely from within. Necessarily involved in this shift, of course, have been changes in many aspects of culture. But among the most striking of these have been fundamental alterations in the patterns of land tenure and work, some of the effects and implications of which I would like briefly to consider here.

The Research and Development Approach to the Study of Change

1958 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Holmberg
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
Development Approach

What I have to say on the question of values in actionstems largely from a rather deep and personal involvement with this question for the past five years. In 1952, quite by design, although unexpectedly and suddenly, I found myself in the delicate position of having assumed the role of patrón (in the name of Cornell University) of a Peruvian hacienda, called Vicos, for a period of five years, for the purpose of conducting a research and development program on the modernization process.

Status Report of the Turbofan Engine Development Program in Japan

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Matsuki ◽  
T. Torisaki ◽  
K. Miyazawa ◽  
M. Itoh
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Turbofan Engine ◽  
Turbofan Engines ◽  
The Status ◽  
Target Performance ◽  
Bypass Ratio ◽  
Engine Development

A National Research and Development Program of high bypass ratio turbofan engines has been in process in Japan since 1971. Target performance characteristics of the first-phase 5-ton thrust class engines have been attained, and development of the second-phase engines has been started in 1976. This paper reviews the status of the program, discusses some engineering progress attained, and presents an outline of the second-phase program and engines.

Value Addition Through Higher Education: With Special Reference To Skill Development In North East India

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 341-348
Author(s):  
Dr. Mini Jain ◽  
Dr. Mini Jain
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Value Addition ◽  
Quality Initiatives ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Skilled Manpower ◽  
The Status

In India, higher education is a need of hour. The excellence of Higher Edification decides the production of skilled manpower to the nation. Indian education system significantly teaching has not been tested too economical to form youths of our country employable in line with the requirement of job market. Despite the rise in range of establishments at primary, secondary and tertiary level our young educated folks don't seem to be capable of being used and recovering job opportunities. Reason being they need not non-heritable such skills essential for demand of the duty market. The present study is aimed at analyzing the status of higher education institutions in terms of Infrastructure, various courses of the institute, quality Initiatives and skill development program offered by the Institutes, in the North-East India region, so as to see whether the Higher Educational Institutes of this region are in the process of gradually developing the skills of the students in attaining excellence. The paper also laid emphasis on the measures adopted by these institutes for quality improvement, and to find out their role in combating the adversity acclaimed in the region, since this region’s development is impeded by certain inherent difficulties However, this paper focuses attention on high quality education with special emphasis on higher education for forward linkages through value addition.

Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi, Mahmood Hasan Khan and M. Ghaffu Otaudhry (edt.). LaJld Reforms in Pakistan, A Historical Perspective. Islamabad: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics 1987. viii+216 pp.Price: Rs 220 (USS 35) for hardcover; Rs 140.00 (USS 20) for soft-cover.

1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-218
Author(s):  
Luther Tweeten
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
State Ownership ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Rural Pakistan ◽  
The Status ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
Ownership Of Land ◽  
High Degree

The authors describe how Pakistan has grappled with land reform, surely one of the most intractable and divisive issues facing agriculture anywhere. The land-tenure system at independence in 1947 included a high degree of land ownership concentration, absentee landlordism, insecurity of tenant tenure, and excessive rent. Land reform since 1947 focused on imposition of ceilings on landholding, distribution of land to landless tenants and small owners, and readjustments of contracts to improve the position of the tenant. These reformist measures have removed some but by no means all of the undesirable characteristics of the system. The authors list as well as present a critique of the reports of five official committees and commissions on land reform. The reports highlight the conflicts and ideologies of the reformers. The predominant ideal of the land reformers is a system of peasant proprietorship although some reformers favoured other systems such as communal farming and state ownership of land, and still others favoured cash rents over share rents. More pragmatic reformers recognized that tenancy is likely to be with Pakistan for the foreseeable future and that the batai (sharecropping) arrangement is the most workable system. According to the editors, the batai system can work to the advantage of landlord and tenant if the ceilings on landholding can be sufficiently lowered (and enforced), the security of the tenant is ensured, and the tenant has recourse to the courts for adjudication of disputes with landlords. Many policy-makers in Pakistan have come to accept that position but intervention by the State to realize the ideal has been slow. The editors conclude that" ... the end result of these land reforms is that they have not succeeded in significantly changing the status quo in rural Pakistan" (p. 29).

Land tenure and rural social change: The italian case

Erdkunde ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Russel King ◽  
Laurence Took
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Italian Case
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