Land Reform And Farm Restructuring In Transition Countries

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821370896

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Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Transition Countries by Anonim Pdf

In the past fifteen years, most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States have shifted from predominantly collective to more individualized agriculture. These years also have witnessed the largest fall in agricultural production, yields, and rural employment on record, while the deterioration and dissolution of collective and state farms have been accompanied by a significant drop in rural public services. Land Reform and Farm Restructuring provides a structured and comparative review of important aspects of land reform and documents important differences in policies between countries to examine why the reforms have not yet lived up to their potential. It is based on data from farm and household surveys and interviews conducted in 2003 and 2004. Case studies from Bulgaria, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan - countries that have had particular difficulties in land reform, farm restructuring, farm performance, or rural poverty - each highlight a central conundrum about land reform and farm restructuring. The paper concludes with some implications for policy.

Author : Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki,Victor Moroz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0821343173

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Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Moldova by Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki,Victor Moroz Pdf

Agricultural reforms, including privatization of land and farm restructuring, are an important cornerstone for overall transformation of the economies of the former socialist world. This paper summarizes the current status of land reform in Moldova and shows how there has been clear progress in creating a market-based agriculture and food sector in Moldova. The results of this study indicate that genuine restructuring and transition to full-fledged private farming have resulted in improved profitability and higher incomes for private farmers than those achieved by traditional collectives.

Author : Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki,Gershon Feder
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agrarian structure
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Transition Countries by Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki,Gershon Feder Pdf

Author : Csaba Csáki,Zvi Lerman,Serge? Sotnikov
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821347926

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Farm Sector Restructuring in Belarus by Csaba Csáki,Zvi Lerman,Serge? Sotnikov Pdf

Agriculture remains the main source of employment and livelihood for the large rural population of many transition countries, especially among the former Soviet republics. Accordingly, the World Bank continuously monitors the progress of land reform and farm restructuring in the region because of the potential impact of these processes on rural development and poverty alleviation in rural areas. The present study on Belarus is the latest addition to a long and growing series of World Bank publications on land reform and farm restructuring in the former socialist countries of Europe and Central Asia. The unique features of all these publications is their reliance on first-hand empirical information collected through extensive farm surveys of various rural constituencies. Analysis of survey findings enables the World Bank to base its policy dialogue with governments in the region on solid empirical facts, making the Bank's recommendations more credible and relevant. The survey findings in this volume will provide a platform for useful policy discussions with this country's government and supply international donors that are active there with essential information to design their strategic programs.

Author : Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki,Gershon Feder
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739108077

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Agriculture in Transition by Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki,Gershon Feder Pdf

In Agriculture in Transition: Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Post Soviet Countries authors Zvi Lerman, Csaba Csaki, and Gershon Feder study the land policies and farming structures of these newly emerging nations as components of institutional change in the rural sector - change from a centralized rural economy to a market-oriented economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429833038

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Agricultural Privatization, Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe by Anonim Pdf

First published in 1997 in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union and its agricultural policies, these editors presented a series of ten related articles on the transition to post-communist, more privatised agricultural policies, each specialising in a specific region of Central and Eastern Europe. Resulting from a research network, this volume features a range of contributors, including those preparing PhDs, former governmental advisors and specialists in agricultural economics, food policy and statistics. The chapters cover Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Eastern Germany, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Solvenia, and the Former Soviet Union, along with a comparative analysis. The contributors focus on three key issues of reform: the collection of detailed data, the collection of information on factors influencing the progress and completion of reform and explaining the results of privatisation and land reform, with a particular emphasis on the first two elements. This volume is well-suited to policy makers, analysists and researchers.

Author : Johan F. M. Swinnen,Allan E. Buckwell,Erik Mathijs
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015042147887

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Agricultural Privatisation, Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe by Johan F. M. Swinnen,Allan E. Buckwell,Erik Mathijs Pdf

This collection aims to present a comprehensive study on farm restructuring and its determinants in Central and Eastern Europe. The data collected should provide scholars and policy makers with the necessary information to understand the changes in Central and eastern European agriculture, and presents a comparative analysis of country studies across the regions.

Author : Zvi Lerman,Karen McConnell Brooks,Csaba Csáki
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0821331493

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Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Ukraine by Zvi Lerman,Karen McConnell Brooks,Csaba Csáki Pdf

Rationale for the study and summary of findings; Ukraine: the country and its agriculture; Land reform legislation; The new private sector; Reorganization of farm enterprises; The effect of reorganization on farm employees; Market services and infrastructure; Rural social services and restructuring of the collective sector.

Author : Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0821346660

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Ukraine--review of Farm Restructuring Experiences by Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki Pdf

"Restructuring has produced a definite favorable impact on labor relations and workers behavior in the reorganized farms. Managers of reorganized farm enterprises give a much more positive assessment of the behavioral patterns of their workers than managers of non-reorganized farms." Agriculture remains the main source of employment and livelihood for the large rural population of many transition countries, especially among the former Soviet republics. Accordingly the World Bank continuously monitors the progress of land reform and farm restructuring in the region because of the potential impact of these processes on rural development and poverty alleviation in rural areas. The present study on Ukraine is the latest addition to a long and growing series of World Bank publications on land reform and farm restructuring in the former socialist countries of Europe and Central Asia. The unique feature of all these publications is their reliance on first-hand empirical information collected through extensive farm surveys of various rural constituencies. Farm surveys have been conducted by the World Bank in many countries of the CIS (Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Belarus) and Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania). Analysis of survey findings enables the World Bank to base its policy dialogue with governments in the region on solid empirical facts, making the Bank's recommendation much more credible and relevant. The new findings for Ukraine will similarly provide a platform for useful policy discussions with this country's government and supply the many international donors active on the local scene with essential information for the design of their strategic programs.

Author : Stephen K. Wegren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134697731

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Land Reform in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by Stephen K. Wegren Pdf

Land reform is a key factor in determining the political, economic and social future of the transitional states of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. This book represents the first major study in this area. Utilizing extensive field work, unpublished materials, statistical data and interviews with land reform officials, the contributors explore the key issues.

Author : Henri A.L. Dekker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351770019

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Property Regimes in Transition, Land Reform, Food Security and Economic Development: A Case Study in the Kyrguz Republic by Henri A.L. Dekker Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. Many former communist republics strive to adopt a market economy in which the privatisation of landed property is a key element. Generally, it is expected that by doing so, economic development will take off, improving food security and decreasing rural poverty. The relationship between changing land regulations, economic development and poverty is complex and yet little understood. With land reform, governments in transitional economies expect to achieve economic growth and thus alleviation of rural poverty. Nowadays, there is ample research to prove that, to be effective, land policy reforms need to be complemented with institutional reforms, and rural development activities. It puts forward a model for rapid assessment of project progress in which macro-economic indicators are applied in a systematic way to give insight to concepts such as land tenure security and food security and to provide warning signals for less-desired developments as a result of project implementation.

Author : Roy L. Prosterman,Timothy M. Hanstad
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 082134501X

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Legal Impediments to Effective Rural Land Relations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia by Roy L. Prosterman,Timothy M. Hanstad Pdf

"Excessive concentration of land ownership, as is feared by many transition governments, has not been a feature of land markets where they have been allowed to function relatively freely and where land has been allocated in kind to households and individuals."The World Bank has long been active in the Europe and Central Asia region in monitoring and evaluating land reform developments and supporting the development of land markets. Bank efforts to date have made a significant impact in our client countries, and studies produced by the Bank have been used as impartial references on this subject by both international organizations and the countries themselves. This report was developed as a result of these efforts. It focuses on: • The principal issues faced by the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union • The potential approaches for resolving specific problem issues.

Author : Frank Byamugisha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781464801884

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Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa by Frank Byamugisha Pdf

Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case Studies of Recent Reforms focuses on “how” to undertake land reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, but with relevant lessons for other developing countries. It provides details, with case studies, on how reforms were undertaken to address a pressing and controversial development challenge in Africa – land ownership inequality – and an intransigent development issue – inefficiency and corruption in land administration. An equally important contribution of the book is assessing reforms and highlighting valuable lessons for other countries contemplating reforms. The six case studies collectively cover two main areas of land governance: reforms in redistributing agricultural land and reforms in land administration. The first two case studies discuss reforms in redistributing agricultural land in Malawi and South Africa, part of the southern Africa region where land ownership inequalities rival those in Latin America. The remaining case studies, four in number, are focused on addressing corruption and inefficiency in land administration in a variety of contexts of governance including stable and post-conflict countries. The case studies cover: • Decentralizing land administration with demonstrations from Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Ghana; • Developing post-conflict land administration systems with examples from Liberia and Rwanda; • Re-engineering and computerizing land information systems with examples from Ghana and Uganda; and • Improving management of government land through land inventories with examples drawn from Ghana and Uganda. The common elements between sometimes disparate experiences provide lessons of relevance to African and other developing countries contemplating similar reforms. The rigorous analysis and yet down-to-earth lessons of experience are a reflection of the authors’ deep global experience underpinned by personal participation in the reforms covered by the book. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience including land specialists and practitioners, African policy makers, experts and managers in the international development community, and the academia.

Author : Johan F.M. Swinnen,Scott Rozelle
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199288915

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From Marx and Mao to the Market by Johan F.M. Swinnen,Scott Rozelle Pdf

"This book is the first effort to analyze the economics and politics of agricultural reforms by comparing the reform processes, their causes and their effects across this vast region. The authors draw on a vast set of studies and new data, which compare reforms and economic impacts in more than 25 countries. A series of conclusions and implications on the role of economic reforms in growth, and the importance of initial conditions and political constraints in explaining the choices that were made and their effects are discussed throughout the book."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Johan F M Swinnen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 113861016X

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Agricultural Privatization, Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe by Johan F M Swinnen Pdf

First published in 1997 in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union and its agricultural policies, these editors presented a series of ten related articles on the transition to post-communist, more privatised agricultural policies, each specialising in a specific region of Central and Eastern Europe. Resulting from a research network, this volume features a range of contributors, including those preparing PhDs, former governmental advisors and specialists in agricultural economics, food policy and statistics. The chapters cover Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Eastern Germany, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Solvenia, and the Former Soviet Union, along with a comparative analysis. The contributors focus on three key issues of reform: the collection of detailed data, the collection of information on factors influencing the progress and completion of reform and explaining the results of privatisation and land reform, with a particular emphasis on the first two elements. This volume is well-suited to policy makers, analysists and researchers.