Hi Bart,
Sunday, April 09, 2000, 5:26:23 PM, you wrote:
BH> simply plopping a peasant down on a small parcel and telling him
BH> it is now his ... has a pretty sorry track record.
A recipe for ingrown poverty.
BH> One of the few examples of real success I've seen was in
BH> Lambayeque, Peru, where after the agrarian "reforms" of 1968 had
BH> split up the most successful haciendas, the peasants on two of
BH> them banded together and hired the former owners back as manager
BH> and overseer. After some years the peasants had come to understand
BH> how to maintain productivity on the piece and continued under a
BH> centralised (but cooperative) management structure.
Organization, economies of scale, a working plan based on experience
and a detailed knowledge of the possibilities are what's needed from
what I sit.
But I wouldn't want to dampen Lion's enthusiasm or pretend I know
enough regarding distant contexts to hazard an opinion relative to
what can or can't be done.
Bart is probably right, but could Lion have something else going? Time
will tell.
DH
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