Political arenas around access to land: a diagnosis of property rights practices in the Nicaraguan interior

摘要: Land property issues remain firmly on the agenda in Nicaragua. Revolutionary land reform, followed by additional redistribution and overnight liberalisation of markets, are assumed to have caused severe insecurity tenure. Dominant received wisdom is that only significant state intervention through full-scale legal titling cum registration can put an end ongoing struggles cause as well injustices against poor agrarian reform beneficiaries. This view, inspired economic engineering perspectives rights, has however successfully been challenged other development contexts, particularly Africa, where a pluralist view turned out be more adequate describe complex social processes define rights. argues for need understand detailed right practices legitimacy (and thus security) access tenure socially constructed calling upon non-state sources Policy conclusions do not call remedy allegedly chaotic unjust informal practices, but rather calls institutional reorganisation contributes greater synergy between different thereby reducing insecurities due prevailing incompatibilities. Inspired pluralism our paper provides attempt at interpretation real world rights agricultural frontier region