1st Edition
Mapping the Rural Problem in the Baltic Countryside Transition Processes in the Rural Areas of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Edited By Ilkka Alanen
Copyright 2004
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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The agricultural privatization strategy adopted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was based on the premise that family farms are the most effective alternative to socialist large-scale agriculture. In addition, international organizations, particularly the World Bank, made recommendations concerning reform speed, synchronization and ownership rights that would facilitate transferring resources from... Read more
Contents: Rural problematics in the Baltic countries, Ilkka Alanen; The transformation of agricultural systems in the Baltic countries - a critique of the World Bank's concept, Ilkka Alanen; Rural communities in the Baltic states and post - communist transition, Rein Ruutsoo; Constructing capitalist firms: former socialist industrial complexes and their struggle for survival, Jouko Nikula; Networks, skills and trust: the necessary ingredients of rural entrepreneurship in the Baltic countries?, Jouko Nikula; From agriculture to tourism: constructing new relations between rural nature and culture in Lithuania and Finland, Leo Granberg; Trends in development in Lithuanian agricultural policy, Donatas Stanikunas, Irena Krisciukaitiene and Romualdas Zemeckis; Means of subsistence and welfare in a small rural community in South Estonia, Raija - Liisa Kämäräinen; Rural community initiatives in the Latvian countryside, Talis Tisenkopfs and Sandra Sumane; The adjustment of the elderly to socio - economic change in rural Estonia, Leeni Hansso and Marjatta Marin; The significance of the research results, Ilkka Alanen; Annex tables and figures; Index.
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