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Based on a large survey to compare the
effectiveness of land markets and land reform in Colombia,
the authors find that rental and sales markets were more
effective in transferring land to poor but productive
producers than was administrative land reform. The fact that
land transactions were all of a short-term nature and that
little land was transferred from very large to small land
owners or the landless suggests that there may be scope for
policies both to improve the functioning of land markets and
to facilitate greater land access by the most disadvantaged.
Analysis of the factors associated with success in a sample
of land transfers from large to small producers helps to
identify key elements for policies in both respects.
