The Political Economy of the Agrarian Reform Process in
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The Political Economy of the Agrarian Reform Process in Mexico:
Between Political Control and Efficiency Gains
982 Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Latin American Area, Seminar 2
Wednesday, 2:25 – 4:55, 113 Taylor Hall, 3 credits instructor consent not required
Crosslisted in Agricultural and Applied Economics, Anthropology, Community and Environmental Sociology, Geography,
History, LACIS, Political Science, Spanish and Portuguese, and Sociology
Prof. Gustavo Gordillo
Tinker Visiting Professor
Dr. Gordillo is Professor of Rural Development at Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in México City and an internationally-known scholar of agrarian policy and rural development. He served as director of the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization Office of Rural Development and Agrarian
Reform in Rome and regional representative of FAO for Latin
America and the Caribbean in Santiago.
Following the 1910 Revolution until 1991, Mexico embarked on one of the largest land reforms in history, yet land redistribution has failed to bring prosperity. Incomplete ownership and transfer rights of the ejido system have been blamed.
This seminar will reexamine the Mexican ejido system in the context of the
1991 reform that substantially modified rural property rights in Mexico. It will trace the economic, political, legal and institutional implications of such reforms and will contrast the Mexican case with other reforms.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Community and
Environmental Sociology and the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program.
