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The Last Attempt at Land Reform in Spain: Application and Scope of the Andalusian Agrarian Reform, 1984–2011

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  • José Díaz-Diego

    (Department of Social Anthropology, Basic Psychology and Public Health, University Pablo de Olavide, Ctra. de Utrera, Km 1, 41013 Seville, Spain)

  • José Manuel Jurado-Almonte

    (Department of History, Geography and Anthropology, University of Huelva, Av. 3 de Marzo, 21007 Huelva, Spain)

  • Juan Antonio Márquez-Domínguez

    (Department of History, Geography and Anthropology, University of Huelva, Av. 3 de Marzo, 21007 Huelva, Spain)

Abstract

In this article, we contextualise, describe and analyse the last attempt at land reform in Spain—the one passed by the Autonomous Parliament of Andalusia in 1984. The Andalusians had passed their Statute of Autonomy by referendum in 1981, incorporating the mandate to carry out an agrarian reform that would boost the rural economy, generate employment and balance the agricultural structure of this region in Southern Spain, peripheral to both national and European centres of power. The Andalusian socialist government complied with this mandate, pushing the agrarian reform law through and applying a package of reform measures, which met with resistance from landowners and conservative political forces from the outset. Political, economic, legal and administrative obstacles swiftly discouraged the Andalusian socialists from persevering in the endeavour, and at the beginning of the nineties, its dismantling began. Finally, in 2011 the end of the agrarian reform was declared, and with it, the waiver of the right to consider alternative models to the liberal management of the agricultural sector. Archives and newspaper libraries, as well as administrative and legal sources, have been consulted, and the information has been examined using content analysis and cross-checked and triangulated with the specialised literature. This article hails a breakthrough in the understanding of the socio-territorial scopes of an agrarian reform little studied to date.

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  • José Díaz-Diego & José Manuel Jurado-Almonte & Juan Antonio Márquez-Domínguez, 2023. "The Last Attempt at Land Reform in Spain: Application and Scope of the Andalusian Agrarian Reform, 1984–2011," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-20, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:12:y:2023:i:3:p:683-:d:1097256
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