Social Aspects of Agricultural Employment in the Czech Republic
Economic reforms launched in the early 1990s have significantly affected Czech agriculture for more than a decade. First was the reform of property rights to land, which was considered an underlying condition for the effective functioning of a market economy. The reform was built upon three principals: restitution of land ownership, transformation of collective farms (division of collective assets) and privatization of state land and assets. Changes in property rights induced significant structural shifts: private individual farms and new forms of corporate farms emerged, while cooperatives declined in number and size and state farms disappeared completely.
Title of publication: Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Central and Eastern Europe
Volume: 25
Page range: 119-144
Author: Hana Horská, Daniela Spěšná, Jan Drlík, Radomír Koutný, Tomáš Ratinger
Year: 2004
Country/ies: Czechia
Geographical coverage: Europe and Central Asia, European Union (European Union)
Type: Article
Full text available at: http://www.iamo.de/fileadmin/documents/sr_vol25.pdf
Content language: English