Land policies and evolving farm structures in transition countries
By Z. Lerman. 2002
150 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The authors review the role of land policies in the evolving farm structure of transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). They show how different policies for land property rights, degrees of control of land rental and sale markets, and procedures for restructuring former collective or state farms resulted in significantly different farm structures in CEE countries compared with those in the CIS. In particular, secure land rights, greater emphasis on indivualization of land, and more liberal land market policies in CEE generated a farming sector with a relatively large share of family farms and viable corporate farms. On the other hand, limited tenure security, ineffective individualization of land rights, and restrictive land policies in most of the CIS produced a farming structure dominated by large and generally nonviable jointly-owned farms that function much like the old collective farms. Family farms are slow to emerge in transition countries with inadequate land policies. The agricultural sector in countries dominated by inefficient farm organizations is characterized by low productivity and misallocation of resources.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Political Science and International Relations, Soil Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e8a611887bd7c1fd7410ba38a373b4f95a3d986c
Citations in the corpus
- Credit Market Imperfections and the Distribution of Policy Rents: The Common Agricultural Policy in the New EU Member States (2007, unknown): “The share of rented land typically increases with the size of the IF (Csaki and Lerman, 2002; Vranken and Swinnen, 2006).”
- Land Sales and Rental Markets in Transition: Evidence from Rural Vietnam (2003, unknown): “Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the large-scale, though uneven, move towards individual property rights that is described elsewhere (Csaki et al. 2002), China has, in 1978, established the Household Responsibility System, leading to a large surge in agricultural production (Lin 1992”