What surprises me the most is the conviction of so many scientists and politicians in the special importance of large farms

Главное, что меня удивляет, — убежденность большинства ученых и политиков в особой значимости крупных хозяйств

Lerman, Zvi (Лерман, Цви) () and Nikulin, Alexander (Никулин, Александр) ()
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Lerman, Zvi (Лерман, Цви): Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nikulin, Alexander (Никулин, Александр): Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy ans Public Administration

Russian Peasant Studies, 2022, vol. 7, 158-173

Abstract: In the interview, the famous agricultural economist Zvi Lerman tells about his family roots and trajectories of his biographical path connected with the Far and Middle East. Despite the relatively late start of agrarian research, Zvi Lerman quickly conducted a great number of both empirical and theoretical rural studies of the development and transformation of production cooperatives — from Israeli kibbutzim to Soviet collective farms. For several decades since the 1990s, Zvi Lerman has participated as an expert-economist in the international research projects on post-socialist and post-Soviet agrarian reforms. He considered the features of the study and implementation of agrarian reforms in most post-Soviet republics — Russia, Ukraine and Moldova, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan. Zvi Lerman also considered the peculiarities of agrarian reforms in such countries of Eastern Europe as Hungary, Slovenia and Albania. He believes that the conviction of many scientists and politicians in the exceptional importance and progressiveness of large agricultural enterprises leads to an imbalance in the rural development policy and damages the sustainable rural development by underestimating the potential of small family farms. Zvi Lerman also mentions the paradoxes of limitations in the development of small family units.

Keywords: Russia; China; Israel; post-socialist countries; agrarian reforms; cooperatives; family households; agroholdings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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