Post-Soviet agricultural restructuring: A success story after all?

Artikel

Challenging the initial expectation that all post-Soviet economies will evolve from collective toward fully individualized farming, I argue that they separated into two different reform paths. In the European successor countries and Kazakhstan, corporate and family farms coexist, labor exited agriculture, and capital inflow boosted labor productivity (a “Westernization”). In the Transcaucasian and the other Central Asian countries, complete farm individualization did not increase labor productivity much, in turn keeping rural incomes depressed (a “Southernization” akin to the Global South). Future policies should promote income alternatives to agriculture and improve the flexibility and transparency of farm consolidation processes.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Comparative Economic Studies ; ISSN: 1478-3320 ; Volume: 63 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 623-647 ; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin ; Macroeconomics: Production ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Performance and Prospects ; Collectives; Communes; Agriculture ; Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
• Subject: agricultural restructuring ; Post-Soviet countries ; labor productivity ; individual farm

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Petrick, Martin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Palgrave Macmillan
• (where): Basingstoke
• (when): 2021

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1057/s41294-021-00172-1
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/246790
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET