Fifty Years of State Land Distribution in the Syrian Jazira: Agrarian Reform, Agrarian Counter-reform, and the Arab Belt Policy (1958-2008)

Fifty Years of State Land Distribution in the Syrian Jazira: Agrarian Reform, Agrarian Counter-reform, and the Arab Belt Policy (1958-2008)

Myriam Ababsa

Department

Cairo Papers in Social Science

Abstract

This collection of essays revisits agrarian transformation in Arab countries in the light of new realities and emerging challenges. Apart from the urgency of the deepening food crisis, such realities include environmental challenges, changes in consumption and life-style choices, and a new set of rules governing the conditions of access to resources. The issue investigates the commonality and diversity in the current processes of agrarian transformation, based on empirical case studies from different Arab countries.

Publication Date

2009

Document Type

Book Chapter

Book Title

Agrarian Transformation in the Arab World: Persistent and Emerging Challenges

Editors

Habib Ayeb, Reem Saad

ISBN

9789774165306

Publisher

American University in Cairo Press

City

Cairo

First Page

33

Last Page

63

Series

Cairo Papers in Social Science 32(2)

Keywords

agrarian transformation, Arab, food crisis, environmental challenges, consumption, life-style choices

Fifty Years of State Land Distribution in the Syrian Jazira: Agrarian Reform, Agrarian Counter-reform, and the Arab Belt Policy (1958-2008)

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