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INTER-COUNTRY EVALUATION OF SMALL FARMER ORGANIZATIONS: HONDURAS
v - 'What Happens in an Agrarian Reform
Judith TendJ.er
October 1.976
For Office of Development Programs of the Latin America Bureau of A. r.D.
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1'ab1e of Contents
Po1artzation in the Public Sector. • • 3
Shaking Up the Balance of Power. • • . . . . 5
Government Pro~ection Against Its Agencies • . . 8, · . . AID,'s Sector Loan: Ma.1:ly' Agencies and Diverse Beneficiaries. II
The spreading of risk • • • • • • • • • 12 • • • . • • • 15Sector lending and f'1ll1ng gaps • . • • •
AID I S past relations. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 17
Inter-agency COol"d.1natio:ll in Rural Development Projects. • • 22
The machine analogy • • • • • • • 23 . The single agency • . • • • . • • • • • 25 .Organiza.tional overlapping. • • • 26 Coordination av-ersion • •• . . 30
Agrarian Reform: Wot Giving Everybody' a Chance • 34
AID didacticism • • • •• • • • · 39. . Agrarian reform e.s precondition . • . • . • 41
Diffusing Power: The Case of the Cooperative Department. • • 43
Limiting Risks: The Chosen Forty Asen~amientos • · . . 50
Shoving Support for a Reform • • • • . • • 56
Agrarian Reform as a Development Project • 58 Legislation as precondition or goal? 60 Conclusion. • • • • • • • • • • • • . 64
Table 1 - Honduras: Comparison of BUdgets for National Agrarian Institute (INA) and Ministry of Natural Resources (MEN), 1966-1974•••••••••.•.• 67
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v - What in an Agrarian Reform
The above discussion of the Na.tional Development Ba.J1k
(BNF) focused on what happens to asme.ll farmer program in a large . .
borrower banlt. In this section, the discussion moves to the
interactions betWeen public sector institutions in agriculture; "..: C'
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like the BNF-and the inwlvement of these agencies in both the ,.. ~
AID sector loan and the e.grarian reform.
AgI-a.1-ian reform looks like a decision, an act, an event
that is defined-in t1JD.e by the mom~nt the reform decree is issued.
But it 1.s really 'a process that goes on for severaJ. years, and not "{ ,
a. discrete happening. The issueJlce of the reform decree is only a..
m:Uestofle. Aft·er~his, t~~·7~eform. can be sloved don, heightened,
stopped a.J.togetbl!r, or reverS~d.· This Vill depend on the changing .:/
relative power of pro- and anti-reform forces within the gover~nt, '. . "
as well as without.
The population of the gover:cmentagencies of a country f" 1", 'I ... ,
is a microcosm of the population at large; it contains the same c·- r _,
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opposing Sides on various political issues. It is only natural
that some of the government institutions dea.J.ing with agriculture, ":" ,"to',.", ::.'. '-~- P':',? ,!"",~".~ ... , . ,t, ,", .,: }' "
or some individuals within them, will not particularly like an
agrarian reform. These individuals or institutions will not f,,';
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