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Articles, Editorials and Journal Contributions

Secure Land Rights as a Foundation for Broad-Based Rural Development in China
Roy Prosterman, Keliang Zhu, Jianping Ye, Jeffrey Riedinger, Ping Li and Vandana Yadav
National Bureau of Asian Research, November 2009

Women and Vulnerable Groups in Land Dispute Management
Rural Development Institute (RDI)
United States Agency for International Development, June 2008

Land Dispute Management in Rwanda
ARD, Inc., with assistance from the Rwandan Initiative for Sustainable Development and the Rural Development Institute United States Agency for International Development, June 2008

Field Training Report: Training Local Institutions in Kabushinge and Nyamguali Cells on Land Dispute management and Land Related Laws
Rwandan Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD), in cooperation with the Rural Development Institute and ARD, Inc. United States Agency for International Development, June 2008

Land Rights Formalization in Rural and Peri-Urban Settings: Draft Operations Manual Todd Flower, Robin Nielsen, Beat Weber
United States Agency for International Development, May 2008

Strengthening Land Tenure and Property Rights
Todd Flower, Robin Nielsen, Beat Weber
United States Agency for International Development, May 2008

The Impact of Regulatory Takings by Chinese State on Rural Land Tenure and Property Rights
Li Ping, Rural Development Institute
Rights + Resources, October 2007

The Dispute Resolution Process in Relation to Logging Permits in China
Li Ping, Rural Development Institute
Rights + Resources, October 2007

A Legal Review and Analysis of China's Forest Tenure System with an Emphasis on Collective Forestland
Li Ping and Keliang Zhu, Rural Development Institute
Rights + Resources, August 2007

"Rural China’s Nascent Land Market"
Zhu Keliang & Jeffrey M. Riedinger
Chinese Business Review, September-October 2009

"Securing Our Future"
Foreign Policy Magazine, October 2009

“Rural Land Rights under the PRC Property Law”
Zhu Keliang & Li Ping
China Law & Practice, November 2007

“The Rural Land Question in China: Analysis and Recommendations based on a Seventeen-province Survey”
Zhu Keliang, Roy Prosterman, et al
New York University Journal of International Law & Politics, 2006, Vol. 38

Seattle groups work to secure land, shelter rights
Seattle-based groups — Rural Development Institute, Agros International and Habitat for Humanity — work to help secure land rights and shelter for people in the Northwest and around the world.
By Tim Hanstad, Greg Rake and Marty Kooistra, Special to The Times
Seattle Times, October 8, 2008

"Improving Land Access for India's Rural Poor"
Tim Hanstad, T Haque, & Robin Nielsen.
Economic & Political Weekly, March 8, 2008

"Compensation and Valuation in Resettlement: Cambodia, People's Republic of China, and India"
Asian Development Bank publication, November 2007

"Saving Asia from the Ground Up"
Andy Zieminski
Washington Times, August 6, 2007

"From Land Reform to Economic Boom"
Roy Prosterman
China Business Review, July-August 2006

"The U.N.'s Empty Plan for Poverty"
Roy Prosterman
Far Eastern Economic Review, April 2005

"Getting down to basics in a fight for children's lives"
Roy Prosterman & Tim Hanstad
Special to The Seattle Times, December 22, 2004

"Fight for democracy continues in Ukraine"
Leonard Rolfes Jr.
Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 7, 2004

"Rural Land Tenure Reforms in China: Issues, Regulations, and Prospects for Additional Reforms"
Ping, Li
Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 2003/3 Special Edition

"Subsidies Won't Help China's Rural Communities"
Prosterman, Schwarzwalder
The Asian Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2004

"West Bengal's Bargadars and Land Ownership"
Hanstad and Nielsen
Economic and Political Weekly, February 21, 2004

"Small Is Not Necessarily Bad"
Hanstad, Majumder
The Telegraph, March 18, 2003

"Landed With An Unfair Deal"
Brown
The Telegraph, March 12, 2003

"China's New Market in Land"
Prosterman
The Asian Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2003

"A quiet revolution begins: Reinventing China's farms"
Schwarzwalder
South China Morning Post, February 12, 2003

Hanstad, Brown, and Prosterman. “Larger Homestead Plots as Land Reform? International Experience and Analysis from Karnataka”
Economic and Political Weekly, July 20, 2002

Prosterman and Hanstad. “Plotting Land Reforms”
India Telegraph, May 20, 2002

Rolfes. “Land Code: Next Steps”
Moscow Times, October 29, 2001

Prosterman, Schwarzwalder, and Jianping. "Implementation of 30-Year Land Use Rights for Farmers Under China’s 1998 Land Management Law:
An Analysis and Recommendations Based on a 17-Province Survey"
Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, University of Washington, Vol. 9, No. 3, Sept 2000

Schwarzwalder. “China’s Farmers Need Long-Term Land Tenure Security, Not Land Readjustment”
Transition Newsletter (World Bank & William Davidson Institute), Vol. 11, No. 5, 2000

Prosterman. “Trillion Dollars for Your Agricultural Lands”
Izvestia, January 20, 2000

Prosterman, Hanstad and Li. "Land Reform in China: The Two-Field System
Experiment in Pingdu"
Social Sciences China Journal, Spring 1999

Prosterman, Hanstad and Li. “Large-Scale Farming in China: An Appropriate Policy?”
Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1998

Prosterman. “Looming Land Code”
Moscow Times, August 12, 1998

Prosterman and Hanstad. “Allow the Land for Indonesians to Feed Themselves”
International Herald Tribune, July 29, 1998

Hanstad. "Designing Land Registration Systems for Developing Countries"
American University International Law Review, Vol. 13, No. 3

Prosterman. “Five Trillion Dollars are Buried in Land”
Izvestia, November 6, 1997

Prosterman and Plotkin. “Marshall Plan’s Effect: The World Transformed”
Seattle Times, June 5, 1997

Hanstad and Li. “Land Reform in the People’s Republic of China:
Auctioning Rights to Wasteland”
Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3 April 1997

Prosterman and Hanstad. “U.S. Courts Disaster with Russian Aid Cuts”
Seattle Times, March 12, 1997

Prosterman, Mitchell and Rorem. “Prospects for Family Farming in Russia”
Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 49, No. 8, 1997

Prosterman, Hanstad, and Li. “Can China Feed Itself?”
Scientific American, November 1996

Hanstad and Mitchell. “The Rural Development Institute”
Washington State Bar News, Vol. 50, No. 2, February 1996

Rolfes. “The Struggle for Private Land Rights in Russia”
Economic Reform Today, No. 1, 1996

Prosterman and Rolfes. “Down with State Farms”
Moscow Times, July 2, 1995

Prosterman, Hanstad, and Li. “With Reform of Farms, Masses Can Be Fed”
Wall Street Journal, April 7, 1995

Prosterman, Hanstad, and Li. “Some Proposals on China’s Rural Land System Reform”
China Reform, 1995 (in Chinese)

Prosterman, Rolfes, and Mitchell. “Russian Agrarian Reform: A Status Report from the Field”
Communist Economies & Economic Transformation, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1995

Prosterman, Hanstad, and Li. “Land System Reform in China’s Countryside” (in Chinese)
Chinese Rural Economy, No. 3, 1995 (Serial No. 123)

Hanstad. “Protecting Kirghizstan’s Land Resources”
Surviving Together, Vol. 12, Issue 1, Spring 1994

Prosterman and Rolfes. “Plant the Seeds of Capitalism”
Japan Times, April 15, 1993

Prosterman and Hanstad. “U.S. Foreign Aid Should Be Used to Help the World’s Poor”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 12, 1993

Rolfes. “From Olympia to Moscow: Justice Robert F. Utter Advises
New Democracies on Crucial Legal Issues”
Washington State Bar News, Vol. 47, No. 2, February 1993

Scates, Shelby. “Russia’s Fate Still in Land Reform”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 13, 1992

Prosterman and Hanstad. “Slow, Miserly U.S. Response Threatens the New Peace”
Seattle Times, March 6, 1992

Prosterman and Hanstad. “Down on the Farm in the U.S.S.R.”
Seattle Times, December 1, 1991

Prosterman and Hanstad. “Helping Egypt”
Christian Science Monitor, August 31, 1989

Prosterman and Hanstad. “On the Constitutionality of Section 31 of CARL”
Manila Chronicle, July 28, 1989

Prosterman and Hanstad. “Making Aid Work: AID Should Target the Poor”
International Herald Tribune, March 11-12, 1989

Prosterman. “Egypt a Model for U.S. Aid to Other Lands”
Wall Street Journal, January 6, 1989

Prosterman and Hanstad. “China: The Next Step for Agriculture”
International Herald Tribune, December 28, 1988

Hanstad. “Philippine Land Reform: The Just Compensation Issue”
Washington Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 2, April 1988

Prosterman and Hanstad. “Land Reform is Back in Aquino’s Court”
Los Angeles Times, December 4, 1988

Prosterman. “A Critique on the Land Reform Bills”
Labor Advocate, February 1988

Prosterman and Hanstad. “China Reaps Prosperity from Rural Revolution”
Los Angeles Times, November 25, 1987

Prosterman. “Philippine Land Reform”
Wall Street Journal, November 17, 1987

Prosterman. “Landlessness Cultivates Revolution:
Wall Street Journal, May 13, 1987

Prosterman. “Philippines’ Next Big Hurdle – Land Reform”
Newsday, February 3, 1987

Prosterman. “Land Reform Beats Communist Revolution”
Japan Times, January 31, 1987 (reprinted from Los Angeles Times)

Prosterman. “An Urgent Need for Land Reform”
Seattle Times, January 20, 1987 (reprinted from Los Angeles Times)

Prosterman. “Filipino Landlessness: Recipe for Violence”
Los Angeles Times, January 26, 1987

Prosterman and Riedinger. “Land-Sharing Idea Offers Impoverished Filipinos Hope”
Los Angeles Times, August 22, 1986

Prosterman. “For Filipinos, Democracy Will Mean Land Reform”
International Herald Tribune, February 11, 1986

Prosterman and Riedinger. “Seoul Offered No Solution to the LDC Riddle”
Wall Street Journal, October 15, 1985

Prosterman and Riedinger. “Land Reform Can Be the Marxist’s Worst Enemy”
Wall Street Journal, October 27, 1983

Prosterman. “Betrayal in El Salvador: How Land Reform Was Gutted and How It Can Be Saved”
New Republic, August 9, 1982

Prosterman. “Salvador’s Alternative to Revolution”
Wall Street Journal, May 6, 1982

Prosterman. “In Defense of Salvadoran Land Reform”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 28, 1982

Prosterman. “Romantic Reporting: A Fine Example of ‘Guerrilla Chic’”
The Weekly, February 23, 1982

Prosterman. “Progress of Land Reform Process in El Salvador”
Los Angeles Times, January 30, 1982

Prosterman. “Real Facts and True Alternatives”
Food Monitor, November/December 1981

Prosterman, Riedinger, and Temple. “Land Reform and the El Salvador Crisis”
International Security, Summer 1981, Vol. 6, No. 1

Prosterman, Riedinger, and Temple. “Land Reform in El Salvador: The Democratic Alternative”
World Affairs, Summer 1981, Vol. 144, No. 1

Prosterman. “Salvador Land Reform, and U.S. Policy”
New York Times, February 8, 1981

Selected Articles and Speeches Citing RDI's Work

Joseph Kahn. "China Takes Steps to Slow Urban and Rural Wealth Gap"
The New York Times, February 2, 2005

Ashok B Sharma. "Houses with garden plots for rural landless"
The Finacial Express, November 29, 2004

Pickering, Thomas R. "Land Reform: An Ambassador's View"
Seattle, WA, January 24, 2004

Restall, Hugo. "A New Breakthrough for Chinese Farmers?"
The Asian Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2003

Ellison, Jake. "Activist to be honored for land-reform ideas"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 9, 2003

Emily Newburger. "A Place of One's Own"
Harvard Law Bulletin, Fall 2002

Dexter, Roberts and Engardio, Peter. “This Is My Farm”
BusinessWeekOnline, October 14, 2002

Adil, Mohammed. “Homestead Plots Distribution to Help East Poverty”
India Times, April 22, 2002

Jiang Zueqin. “Stealing the Land”
Far Eastern Economic Review, February 7, 2002

Engardio, Pete. “Smart Bombs, So Why Not Smart Aid?”
BusinessWeek, December 24, 2001

Harbrecht, Douglas, Ed. “Making Foreign Aid Pay Off”
BusinessWeekOnline, December 19, 2001

“American Experts: China Can Feed Itself”
Beijing Review, December 23-29, 1996

Monoghan, Peter. “A Gentle but Tough-Minded Visionary”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 16, 1995

Pond, Elizabeth. “Viet Land Reform Gathers Speed”
Christian Science Monitor, June 18, 1969

Books and Chapters

“'If he asks me to leave this place, I will go': The Challenge to Secure Equitable Land Rights for Rural Women”
Robin Nielsen
In de Soto., Ed., Realizing Property Rights
Ruffer and Rub Pub, 2006

“Rural Property Rights in China”
Roy Prosterman
In de Soto., Ed., Realizing Property Rights
Ruffer and Rub Pub, 2006

“Agrarian Reform and Agricultural Productivity in the Russian Far East”
Duncan and Ruetschle
In Thornton and Ziegler, Ed., Russia’s Far East: A Region at Risk
University of Washington Press, 2002

"Women and Rural Land Rights in Transition Countries:
A Comparative Perspective"
Giovarelli and Duncan
In Webb and Weinberger, ed., Women Farmers, Enhancing Rights, Recognition
and Productivity Development Economics and Policy, Peter Land, 2001

“A Fieldwork-Based Appraisal of Individual Peasant Farming in Russia”
Prosterman and Hanstad
In Van Atta, Ed., “The Farmer Threat”: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform
in Post-Soviet Russia, Westview Press, 1993

Prosterman, Temple, and Hanstad
Agrarian Reform and Grassroots Development: Ten Case Studies
Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1990

Prosterman and Riedinger
Land Reform and Democratic Development
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987

Prosterman
Surviving to 3000: An Introduction to the Study of Lethal Conflict
Duxbury Press, 1972

Reports for Other Institutions

Women and Vulnerable Groups in Land Dispute Management
Rural Development Institute (RDI)
United States Agency for International Development, June 2008

Land Rights Formalization in Rural and Peri-Urban Settings: Draft Operations Manual Todd Flower, Robin Nielsen, Beat Weber
United States Agency for International Development, May 2008

Strengthening Land Tenure and Property Rights
Todd Flower, Robin Nielsen, Beat Weber
United States Agency for International Development, May 2008

Securing Land Rights for Chinese Farmers: A leap Forward for Stability and Prosperity
Zhu Keliang and Roy Prosterman
CATO Institute Development Policy Analysis, October 15, 2007, No. 3

Registration of Land and Women’s Land Rights on Java:
Why so many married couples register marital property in the name of one spouse
and what has been the impact on women’s land rights
Brown and Purwanti
United States Agency for International Development, August 2002

Local Institutions that Enforce Customary Law in the Kyrgyz Republic
and their Impact on Women’s Rights
Giovarelli and Akmatova
World Bank, 2002

Land Reform in Eastern Europe: Western CIS, Transcaucuses, Balkans,
and EU Accession Countries
Giovarelli and Bledsoe
United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, 2001

Women’s Rights to Land in the Kyrgyz Republic
Giovarelli, Aidarbekova, Duncan, Rasmussen, and Tabyshalieva
World Bank, 2001

Legal Impediments to Effective Rural Land Relations in Eastern Europe
and Central Asia: A Comparative Perspective
Ed. Prosterman and Hanstad
Chapters by Hanstad, Giovarelli, Rolfes Jr., Schwarzwalder, Duncan, and Bledsoe
World Bank Technical Paper, No. 436, 1999

Land Tenure Issues in Indonesia
Thiesenhusen, Hanstad, Mitchell and Rajagukguk
United States Agency for International Development, March 1997

Land Privatization in the Republic of Moldova: A Progress Report for USAID
Prosterman and Mitchell
United States Agency for International Development, 1995

Miscellaneous

The MacNeil-Lehrer Report: El Salvador Reforms
Lehrer, Hunter-Gault, Professor Prosterman, Senator Dodd, and Ambassador Hinton
Transcript #1744, June 3, 1982