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This paper analyzes the nature of economic policy regimes associated with globalization to contextualize issues of land rights and gender. It uses India's experience in the 1990s and explores the impact of global finance capital on many developing countries that have implemented loan-conditional structural adjustment and trade liberalization policies promoted by the Bretton Woods institutions. The author outlines land reform in India to highlight its impact on food security and employment, while exploring strategies to protect rural livelihoods. He concludes that unregulated capitalist exploitation of natural resources has produced a crisis for rural inhabitants.