Reforming the Farming Sector in Russia

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.R. Franks ◽  
Irina Davydova

Following laws allowing the private ownership of land, a commercial private farming sector has emerged in Russia. The growth of this sector has been constrained by the difficult macro- and agricultural economic climate of the 1990s and mixed political signals over land ownership. These factors together resulted in the authorities continuing to make financial support available to underperforming large-scale enterprises (LSEs) through debt-restructuring programmes. This paper shows that, although stagnant in size, the considerable restructuring within the private farming sector has increased the number of options available to the authorities for maintaining economic activity in rural areas. Using case studies from interviews with farmers, municipal authority employees and agricultural economists, the paper reveals how these options are being implemented. Some possible consequences for the rural economy and communities are considered.

2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Štefan Bojnec ◽  
Imre Fertő ◽  
Attila Jámbor ◽  
József Tóth

Technical efficiency in agriculture of 10 new EU member states is analysed by Data Envelopment Analysis and econometric panel data analysis. Technical efficiency in agriculture is significantly positively associated with agricultural factor endowments, average farm size, farm specialisation, small-scale farms, and technological change. Foreign direct investments have an ambiguous effect. Reform and institutional developments, large-scale privatisation and price liberalisation, and urban- rural income gap are associated with technical efficiency in agriculture positively. An increase in technical efficiency in agriculture and the development of the rural economy are seen as a strategy to boost the level of living standards in agriculture and in rural areas.


Three-quarters of the world’s peoples live in rural areas, where ill-health and disease are the tacitly accepted norms. Inequalities and disparities are being accentuated by the burgeoning towns of the Third World which claim an overlarge proportion of available finance, doctors and curative medical services. Undernutrition and a rapidly increasing population augment the problems of endemic parasitic and infectious disease in the context of socio-environmental factors militating against healthy living. Food production cannot keep pace with population growth; and leaching, erosion, depletion of topsoil from overcropping and overgrazing result in protein-energy deficiencies and widespread undernourishment. Loss of harvested crops from fungi, insects, vermin and bacterial decomposition tip the precarious balance. Too much water, or too little, and unpredictable major climatic changes add to the hazards of rural existence. The disease-pattern of water-borne intestinal infections, and of parasites whose vectors or intermediate hosts are water-dependent, throws into relief the importance of water in a rural economy: domestically, bringing clean water to, and taking soiled water from, the households would be the most important hygienic innovation conceivable. Total vector control on a large scale is often practically impossible or prohibitively expensive, but much could be done to minimize the prevalence of disease by judicious preventive measures. These measures are dependent upon community acceptance, mass education, the deployment of health auxiliaries, wide use of intermediate technology, and family limitation, coupled with a fundamental rethinking of the training, curricula and functions of doctors and ancillary medical workers. The topsy-turvy world of organ transplantation and research into rare conditions, of the concentration on individual curative medicine to the neglect of the real causes of widespread morbidity, and of the increasing inequalities between the West and 'the others’, makes a reappraisal not only opportune but urgent.


Author(s):  
Alfredo Gómez Alcorta ◽  
Claudia Prado Berlien ◽  
Francisco Ocaranza Bosio

Este trabajo es parte de la investigación desarrollada por los autores en el marco del proyectoFondecyt N° 91-1021, “Desarrollo Cultural y Adaptación Ecológica Durante el PeriodoAgroalfarero de la Precordillera de Pirque”, a cargo del arqueólogo Ángel Cabeza Monteira.ResumenEste estudio aborda los cambios precipitados en la economía de subsistencia y en la propiedad de la tierra para las comunidades indígenas de Chile Central,utilizando como caso de estudio un asentamiento de la precordillera de Santiago. Se realiza un intento de comprender la organización productiva y la propiedad territorial de las parcialidades indígenas desde antecedentes etnohistóricos e históricos.En base a datos arqueológicos e información documentalse reconstruyen las características del patrón de asentamiento indígena y la actividad económica de estas comunidades a fin de bosquejar la ocupación y explotación económica del territorio preandino, así como el proceso de pérdidad el mismo en manos de los españoles.La información arqueológica, gracias al registro realizado por los autores, han arrojado una imagen original e inéditade un asentamiento indígena, la que intentamos vincular con informaciónetnohistórica del valle del río Clarillo y el Principal de Pirque.Palabras clave: Indígenas, Territorio, Colonia, Economía.Indigenous Settlements in Santiago’s Andean Foothills(c. XVI and XVII): A Case StudyAbstractThis study aims to address the abrupt changes in the subsistence economyand in the ownership of land for the indigenous communities of CentralChile, presented as an example the populations settled in the foothills of Santiago. An attempt is made to understand the initial transformation ofproductive organization and land ownership of indigenous groups.Based on archaeological data and historical information features indigenous settlement pattern and economic activity in these communities in order to sketch the occupation and economic exploitation of the pre-Andean territory, as well as the process of loss of it in Spanish hands.The archaeological informationby recording performed by the authors has produced an original image of a nindigenous settlement, which attempt to link with ethnohistorical information of the Clarillo River Valley and Principal de Pirque.Key words: Indigenous, Territory, Colonial period, Economy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Alicia Langreo Navarro ◽  
Tomas Garcia Azcarate

<div data-canvas-width="529.0725266666668"><div data-canvas-width="529.0725266666668">This note is a reflection on the empty Spain and some of the differential features of its economic activity. The analysis starts from the observation that the economic engines that assured more or less their stability in the past have failed. It focusses on the different productive systems observed in the rural areas and their capacity to carry over the rural economy as a whole, which constitutes the essential core of this contribution. The gender perspective and the emigration are incorporated into the debate. It ends with 9 proposals for possible future lines of work.</div></div>


Author(s):  
Tetyana Reshytko ◽  

The article deals with the problems of financial support to the agricultural producers in Ukraine, which mostly perform from their own resources, which is insufficient for self-financing. This fact makes agricultural enterprises hope for support from the state and presupposes the development of banking and partnership forms of crediting. The framework of state support to agricultural producers and the implementation of private investments in the development of agricultural enterprises are revealed. There have been given the examples of successful private investments, which provide not only the manufacturing of high quality products, but also the employment of farmers. The main directions of financial support for production and employment of the rural population in the EU member states are shown. The need to create a favorable investment climate in the agricultural and non-agricultural spheres, in the development of rural areas is indicated. It has been investigated that radical changes are required to establish the positive dynamics of investment processes. First of all, it concerns the introduction of a real market for agricultural land, which will stop the outflow of investors from the industry, expand the banks’ interest in financing agriculture, and allow direct and legal involvement of these lands in the investment process. In order to solve the problem of rural residents’ employment, there is a need to improve the investment climate in the agricultural and non-agricultural spheres. In this regard, the experience of developed countries is interesting, where investment by the state budget is an important factor in social reproduction, a source of modernization and expansion of fixed capital, a means of stimulating its accumulation. The establishing of financial support for social infrastructure in rural areas will stop the reduction and closure of social facilities, increase the range and quality of services, improve the living conditions of farmers, promote small business, create additional jobs and reduce the migration of productive rural forces to cities and abroad. The problem of investment support to the development of agriculture and rural areas is large-scale, nationwide, and requires the consolidation of efforts of all levels and spheres of production, society, public authorities and economic management.


2020 ◽  
pp. 174-183
Author(s):  
Svitlana HRYNKO ◽  
Ivan KOSTIASHKIN

Taking into account the ongoing democratic transformations in our country, the decentralization reform deserves special attention, which is aimed at ensuring broad independence of territorial communities in solving their own socio-economic problems of a particular region. One of the key issues of such a reform is the formation of capable administrative-territorial units, endowed with full power not only in terms of administrative management but as full owners of the relevant resource base grounded on land. Unfortunately, the transformations carried out in Ukraine through privatization in general and privatization of land and legislative consolidation of new forms of land ownership have led to uncertainty about the object composition of communal land ownership, failed to ensure social harmony, creating crisis phenomena of demographic and socio-economic nature, especially in rural areas. As a result, the legal model of state regulation of land relations remains incomplete, in which the balance of private and public interests in land use within territorial communities would be ensured by law, which determined the content of the study. The work analyses the theoretical and normative principles of land ownership, in particular, the conclusion that the form of land ownership due to its functional purpose and special subject-object composition, determines the mechanism of formation and termination of ownership. Scientific conclusions and recommendations are formulated, on which it is expedient to build a modern state policy on the formation and establishment in society of the concept of communal ownership of land as a basis for the effective development of territorial communities. According to the results of the study, the need to change the administrative-territorial division by regulating the community at the constitutional level as the primary administrative-territorial unit, which is the basis for the formation of communal land ownership. Amendments to the Land Code of Ukraine are proposed in order to determine the right of communal ownership of land within territorial communities.


Author(s):  
Olga Shulga

The purpose of the article is to reveal the dialectics of the interconnection of the development of institutional social forms of the functioning of economic systems and property relations in the agrarian sector, studying the world experience of market circulation of land. In clarifying these questions dialectical, dynamic, systematic, unity of logical and historical approaches, methods of generalization, analysis and synthesis, etc. Institutional social forms of functioning of economic systems are the real forms of organization of economic activity, norms and rules of conduct of economic entities that have developed in a given society at a certain stage of its development. According to the civilization approach, three institutional social forms of functioning of economic systems can be distinguished: pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial economical systems, which differ in their institutional frameworks for their functioning. Each of them has its own definite system of property relations, which is constantly evolving and complicated, gaining new forms of development. In general, ownership of land during the history of mankind was in its evolution, three stages (levels) of development: community - private - public property. That is, as we see, the development of property relations has an interesting tendency - in the early stages of its development, humanity used common, collective forms of ownership, later, with the development of productive forces, communal property self-denied and displaced by private property, self-development which takes place in the direction of its socialization (socialization of the nature of labor and production) and the emergence of collective forms of private property. The dialectic of the relationship between the development of institutional social forms of the functioning of economic systems and property relations in the agricultural sector is that the development of land ownership relations leads to changes and transformations in the system of economic relations, their transition to a higher stage of socio-economic development and the emergence of new social forms of functioning of economic systems. In its turn, the emergence of new institutional social forms of functioning of economic systems causes changes in the structure of ownership relations with the land, leads to the emergence and dominant position in the agrarian sector of new types and forms of ownership, reflecting the socio-economic nature of a particular economic system. On the basis of the analysis of the evolution of land ownership relations in different economic systems, one can conclude that their development is characterized by certain patterns: the development and complication of property patterns are constantly underway; Each form of ownership by its nature is historical; the emergence of a more developed form of ownership of land does not lead to the complete disappearance of the previous form of ownership; as the evolution of land ownership relations in the direction of socialization takes place, the convergence of interests of opposing classes, social groups; the development of the essential basis of property takes place in an evolutionary way, and the change in the legal form of ownership - institutional instruments; Each typical civilization is characterized by a specific for the conditions of its development, the dominant object of property, which reflects the level of development of the productive strength of human labor and the corresponding formative peculiarities of the appropriation of means and production results; the formation of private ownership of land in a post-industrial society takes place mainly through its purchase; the state regulates private ownership of land and does not allow the concentration of too large areas of land in one hand; State policy in the field of land relations is aimed at consolidating land and consolidating farms.


1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-261
Author(s):  
Glen Sheehan ◽  
Guy Standing

The aim of this article is to investigate some of the factors explaining the economic activity of women in Nigeria, in particular, to examine the question of whether urbanisation is likely to lead to a "marginalisation" of Women in Nigeria. Such a question would not normally be asked in most developing countries because, since recorded female labour force participation is low in the rural areas of most countries, it could be expected that urbanisation would be associated with rising levels of female activity. However, a different situation exists in sub-Saharan Africa with female participation in the rural economy being strikingly high.1 This is associated with a traditional division of labour which allocates prominent roles to women in subsistence agriculture and often in trading activities. This tradition is partly explained by the need for men to travel long distances to hunt or, in this century, increasingly to find wage earning activity. The present study is based on a survey carried out by the Human Resources Research Unit of the University of Lagos in 1973 and 1974. It covered a sample of 2,700 women aged 20 and over drawn from four areas of Nigeria. It is admitted at the very outset that conceptual deficiencies in the survey appear to have led to an understatement of labour force participation in rural areas, making the analysis somewhat questionable.


2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Voronin Boris Aleksandrovich ◽  
Chupina Irina Pavlovna ◽  
Voronina Yana Viktorovna ◽  
Zarubina Elena Vasilievna

The model or way of development of the village and rural economy is always associated with the state policy in relation to the rural areas. Since rural areas are not only a place of residence for human capital, but also a place of labor and economic activity of the rural residents, who are initially employed in agriculture, it is natural that the existing agricultural policy has a huge impact on the model or way of the rural development. The model of the existence of the economic entities in the rural areas under the conditions of exclusive state land ownership has ended since 1990. From here, in the 21st century, the formation of a modern model of Russian agriculture began with organizational and legal forms of management inherent in a market economy.


1976 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisue Pickering ◽  
William R. Dopheide

This report deals with an effort to begin the process of effectively identifying children in rural areas with speech and language problems using existing school personnel. A two-day competency-based workshop for the purpose of training aides to conduct a large-scale screening of speech and language problems in elementary-school-age children is described. Training strategies, implementation, and evaluation procedures are discussed.


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