As in many developing countries, the prospects for land reform
in Iran seemed promising. It was expected to improve rural poverty
and stimulate agricultural development by replacing the traditional
landlord-peasant system with more peasant-biased, modern farming.
This book assesses the economic consequences of land reform,
focusing particularly on its effect on the living standards of the
rural poor. Amid describes a ?biomodal? system of large and small
farms that emerged after the reform. Large farms, with government
support, modernized and grew more profitable cash crops, whereas
small farms found difficulty in obtaining credit and continued to
rely on traditional techniques and staple food crops. Land reform
was not, the author argues a success for the majority of the
Iranian rural population who experienced virtually no improvement
in living standards and a growth of rural inequality as a
result.
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