ABSTRACT
In the 1950s agrarian reform was generally neglected by economists. The interest in agrarian reform grew in the 1960s and culminated in the 1970s with a large number of books and studies. In the middle of the 1960s most Latin American countries had agrarian reform programmes, but today Peru remains the most important enduring Latin American example of a planned major reform without a revolution. Was the Peruvian agrarian reform successful and what can be learnt from it?
