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100 _aHanstad, Tim
245 _aLarger homestead plots as land reform?: international experience and analysis from Karnataka
260 _c2002
300 _ap.3053-062.
362 _a20 Jul
520 _aLand reform legislation in India, designed to redress issues of poverty and landlessness, has in most cases, suffered from design flaws and a failure of implementation. Land reform efforts are also stymied due to a lack of political will, scarcity of land and resources. Research summarised in this article seeks to offer an innovative and alternative solution, one that involves the provision of amply-sized homestead plots. As experiments in other countries, replicated in certain districts of Karnataka have borne out, such homestead and garden plots hold out the prospect of substantial benefits to poor, rural households, offering them much more than a place to build a house. - Reproduced.
650 _aLand reform - India - Karnataka
650 _aLand reform
700 _aProsterman, Roy
700 _aBrown, Jennifer
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
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