"This book is largely an outcome of the papers persented at the National workshop on `Land Markets and Rural Poverty' organized by the Center for Rural Studies, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. The book also incorporated a few research papers on similar and related issues by eminent administrators and technocrats. Examining the potential of the `Land' question in alleviating rural poverty, the contributors addressed the strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation and the issues of volatility in land markets and agrarian reforms." 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [from Blurb]

Contents

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. Land Reforms : The Next Phase / V. S. Vyas

2. The Land Question and Globalization : Some Reflections on the Relevance of Redistributive Land Reforms / V. B. Athreya

3. The Problem of Tenancy Reforms and Land Reforms in Relation to Productivity and Rural Poverty / Utsa Patnaik

4. Some Aspects of Tenancy Debate : Implications for Policy Reforms / Pushpendra and B. K. Sinha

5. Volatility in Land Markets and Rural Poverty / C. S. Murty

6. Changing Tenancy Relations in Rural India / H. R. Sharma

7. Tenancy and Rural Poor : Some Important Issues / R. P. Singh

8. Operation Barga and Rural Poverty : West Bengal Experience / Sankar Kumar Bhaumik

9. Emerging Land Lease Market in Haryana / P. C. Bansil

10. Changes in Land Holding Structure, Farm Size, Productivity and Tenancy in Punjab / Ramesh Chand

11. Sharecropping Tenancy and Terms of Access to Land to the Poor : A Comparative Study / A. P. Singh

12. Poverty Alleviation : Relative Roles of Land Lease and Sales Markets in a Prosperous Part of UP / Gyanendra Mani and V. K. Pandey

13. Access to Land, Land Markets and Poverty: The Orissa Experience / Basanta K. Sahu

14. Land Markets, Agrarian Structure and Poverty in Andhra Pradesh / R. Vijay

15. Changing Land-Caste-Class Relations and Rural Poverty in Bihar / Anup K. Karan

16. Land Reforms and Land Policy Issues in the Context of Karnataka / R. S. Deshpande

17. Conceptualizing Land and Rural Poverty Linkages with Some Reflections on Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh / Praveen Jha

18. Land Distribution and Tenancy in Orissa / R. K. Panda and S. Tripathy

19. Land Relations and Conflicts in North Eastern India : A Look at Modernisation, Immigration and Livelihood Loss / Walter Fernandes

20. Land Holdings and Tenancy in North-Eastern States / S. Tripathy

21. State and NGO Interventions in the Distribution of Land to the Poor : A Study of Tamil Nadu / M. Thangaraj

22. Globalization and Contract Farming : The Experience of Some States / K. Gopal Iyer

Index