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Land Reform and Resource Management within Agrarian Production Cooperatives in Honduras

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Agrarian production cooperatives (APCs) established during the Land Reform process in Honduras face serious problems with respect to income generation, labour mobilization and land use. Therefore, pressure to proceed with parcellation of these cooperative enterprises is imminent. Major arguments for parcellation refer to the incentives required to improve the efficiency of resource allocation and, to a lesser extent, for the creation of favourable prospects for sustainable land use.

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  1. Ruerd Ruben
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  1. Department of Development Economics, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jan P. de Groot

  2. Department of Development Economics, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands

    Ruerd Ruben

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Ruben, R., van den Berg, M. (1997). Land Reform and Resource Management within Agrarian Production Cooperatives in Honduras. In: de Groot, J.P., Ruben, R. (eds) Sustainable Agriculture in Central America. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378087_10

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