Second agriculture in Belarus and Ukraine:subsistence or leisure?

Maksim Yemelyanau
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Maksim Yemelyanau: Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC) and Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and the Economics Institute of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CERGE-EI)

No 8, BEROC Working Paper Series from Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)

Abstract: In many post-Soviet countries, more than half of all households use small land plots to produce significant agricultural output even though their members have paid jobs or collect state pensions. Existing studies suggest that in Russia such “second agriculture” helps smooth consumption. Using household survey data, I study the role of “second agriculture” in Belarus and Ukraine, two countries that differ significantly in the coverage of their social safety nets. I …find that while in Belarus small land plots do help smooth consumption of the poorest households (during the 1998 crisis), Ukrainian poor appear to be unable to invest sufficiently in their small land plot production to produce similar benefits. Most urban households use their small land plots for leisure, and over years they tend to move away from this activity.

Keywords: Belarus; Ukraine; transition; social security; second agriculture; small land plots; consumption smoothing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 H55 I32 I38 J43 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2009-09
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