Grassroots based agrarian reform in Santa Cruz : A reason to hope for the end of land concentration?

Abstract

This thesis will bring together the current popularity of an grassroots based approach to agrarian land reform with the role the rural grassroots based movement Movimiento Sin Tierra – Santa Cruz could play in the redistributive reform presently unfolding in Bolivia’s department of Santa Cruz. The research question central to this thesis is the following: Is the grassroots based rural movement, Movimiento Sin Tierra- Santa Cruz capable, as suggested in current academic literature to change the inequitable agrarian land distribution situation in the department of Santa Cruz?