Nicaraguan debates on Agrarian structure and their implications for agricultural policy and the rural poor

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• The author is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53705. I would like to gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Don Kanel, Michael Carter, Roger Bartra, William Thiesenhusen, David Stanfield, Peter Dorner, Joseph Thome, and Gerardo Otero, as well as that of an anonymous referee. My debt to my colleagues at the Center for Investigation and Study of the Agrarian Reform (CIERA) in Managua, is of another order. To them I owe the constant debate and discussion of which this article is a part and which in the long run is the best guarantee of the success of the Nicaraguan Revolution.
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