Rethinking agricultural reform in Ukraine

This book is organized in two parts. Part I presents a brief overview of the agricultural policy environment in Ukraine before and after 2000, followed by a detailed discussion of the legal foundations of land and farm reform and an overall picture of the impacts of reform on the farm sector since 1990. Part II presents the findings of a survey of nearly 1,400 individual and corporate farms conducted in the spring of 2005 in eight oblasts. The survey has been designed to provide focused information highlighting the changes that occurred at the farm level since the 1999 Presidential Decree. The Executive Summary at the beginning of the volume contains the main findings of the study and some policy recommendations. The last chapter (Chapter 16) brings together our main conclusions in a more detailed format.