Land reforms privatized forest commons to boost farming incentives

Evidence

The purpose of the delimitation of land holdings was to “promote the cultivation and population in the country’s northern provinces” (ibid), but in practice, the aim was to clarify the ownership relations to the forest (i.e. the outland commons). The logic was that if the ownership pattern to the forest was made clear, the farmers’ incentives to improve their lands would increase. It would also create opportunities to establish new farm holdings on what the state considered as “unused” land (the outland commons). — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 38

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to enclosure movements and commons privatization literature — the stated civic rationale vs. the actual resource-grab logic parallels classic enclosure debates. — connects to: Forests changed from common subsistence resources to private monetized assets via land reform. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 34; Land surveyors profited personally from privatizing commons — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 39; Neoliberal land reform expropriated Mapuche collective land using tax subsidies to forestry giants — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 354 (+1 more)
• ADDENDUM: Ties to ‘On Sacrifice’ in that state rhetoric justifies dispossession of shared resources under improvement claims, paralleling how justifications for hierarchy/appropriation get dressed up as public benefit.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 38

Related

• Forests changed from common subsistence resources to private monetized assets via land reform. (similarity 0.86)
• Land surveyors profited personally from privatizing commons (similarity 0.84)
• Neoliberal land reform expropriated Mapuche collective land using tax subsidies to forestry giants (similarity 0.83)
• Twentieth-century Swedish land reforms dismantled communal extraction commons. (similarity 0.80)
• Land-use reformers redefined private land as a public resource warranting protection (similarity 0.80)
• Swedish village commons persisted from the Iron Age until 20th-century land reform monetised forests. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal land reform expropriated Mapuche collective land using tax subsidies to forestry giants #expands (0.82) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 354
• Land surveyors profited personally from privatizing commons #expands (0.80) — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 39