Future Of Agriculture In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe
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agricultural output targets analysis
Author_Betty A. Laird
Author_Joseph Hajda
Author_Paul E Lydolph
Author_Roy D. Laird
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food production systems
institutional reform analysis
intra-bloc trade
nonchernozem agriculture
planned economies
resource allocation models
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- ISBN 9780367292317
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 136 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the 1970s Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have changed from being net grain exporters to major grain importers. Clearly, unfavorable weather has played a key role in this dramatic reversal. However, as several of the authors of this book argue, bad policies have played a key role. In the authors’ analyses of the new five-year plans, a serious question is raised as to whether the nations involved can meet their ambitious goals. Indeed, a strong case is made that the U.S.S.R. will not only continue to be an importer of grains, but that it will increase such imports over the years. Although the CMEA nations have made increases in food output in the last two decades, a point of diminishing returns seems to have been reached. Future demand for food imports may have an enormous impact on international affairs. Even if the nations involved were to collectively meet their ambitious production plans, which the authors doubt, there is no possibility that the area will be able to make any significant contribution to mounting world food demand in the foreseeable future. This fact alone is of great significance in a world facing a mounting food crisis.
"Roy D. Laird, professor of political science and Slavic and Soviet area studies at the University of Kansas, is founder of the continuing Conference on Soviet and East European Agricultural and Peasant Affairs.
Joseph Hajda is associate professor of political science, Kansas State University, and a research political scientist with the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Betty A. Laird is an independent research analyst specializing in rural affairs and Soviet agriculture."
