Caribbean Land and Development Revisited

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Importance of the 1897 British Royal Commission....Pages 17-28
The Colonial Office and Soil Conservation in the British Caribbean, 1938–1950....Pages 29-40
Domestic Food Production in Guadeloupe in World War II....Pages 41-52
Cuba’s Farmers’ Markets in the “Special Period,” 1990–1995....Pages 53-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Land, Development, and Indigenous Rights in Suriname: The Role of International Human Rights Law....Pages 69-80
The Management of State Lands in Trinidad and Tobago....Pages 81-93
The Participation Paradox: Stories from St. Lucia....Pages 95-105
Land Disputes and Development Activity in the Dominican Republic....Pages 107-117
Land Policy in Jamaica in the Decade after Agenda 21....Pages 119-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
“Squatting” as a Strategy for Land Settlement and Sustainable Development....Pages 135-146
The Triumph of the Commons: Barbuda Belongs to All Barbudans Together....Pages 147-158
The Contested Existence of a Peasantry in Martinique: Scientific Discourses, Controversies, and Evidence....Pages 159-173
The Waxing and Waning of Land for the Peasantry in Barbados....Pages 175-187
Agrobiodiversity as an Environmental Management Tool in Small-Scale Farming Landscapes: Implications for Agrochemical Use....Pages 189-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance....Pages 207-218
From the Pre-Colonial to the Virtual: The Scope and Scape of Land, Landuse, and Landloss on Montserrat....Pages 219-232
“Leave to Come Back”: The Importance of Family Land in a Transnational Caribbean Community....Pages 233-241
Collateral and Achievement: Land and Caribbean Migration....Pages 243-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-276