ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a tool for rapid assessment of effectiveness of land reform projects. It aims to assist in assessing the effectiveness of a project; to provide early warning signs of undesired or non-sustainable project effects, and to draw attention to failing supportive measures to ensure sustainable future benefits of a project. Land reform can have two distinctive goals, alleviating food insecurity or improving of economic development. The chapter investigates a model for the food security paradigm and a model describing the link between land reform and economic development - the prosperity paradigm will be developed. It turns to the prosperity paradigm in which land reform is specifically aimed at economic development. This paradigm will be visualized in a way similar to the food security paradigm. This paradigm describes economic development and improved prosperity as a result of institutional changes: The prosperity paradigm.
