Land Reform and Its Effect upon Production and Productivity in the Lake Titicaca Region

Abstract

In a recent article which appeared in this journal,' Melvin Burke set out to elucidate some issues regarding by means of comparisons of preand postreform tenure systems. His treatment has, in turn, raised certain questions, mostly by virtue of some important omissions, which tend to detract from his objective. Although Burke defines land reform, land redistribution, and agrarian reform in the first two footnotes of his paper, this distinction becomes tenuous, and even lost as one progresses through the article. Thus, the conclusion drawn that is not a panacea for the agricultural problems of the Lake Titicaca region or the nation (p. 444) and that no evidence shows to be detrimental to economic