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San Francisco, CA : Institute for Food and Development Policy, c1982.
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Monograph on trends in land tenure and food production after the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua - examines government policies to overcome underdevelopment, agrarian reform, characteristics of state farms and the private sector (esp. Commercial farming), agricultural credit, wage policy compatible with productivity increase, the cooperative movement, food policy and price policy, etc., discusses obstacles (role of USA), and includes a chronology of political development events since 1821. Bibliography pp. 175 to 179, graphs and references.
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This revised edition of What Difference Could a Revolution Make describes the agricultural policy and the major role played by the private sector even while an agrarian reform programme benefitting poor peasants with land and credit goes on.