A LAND REFORM IN THE POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES OF SOUTH CAUCASUS

DOI 10.32651/2070-0288-2018-7-98-103

Issue № 7, 2018, article № 15, pages 98-103

Section: Foreign news

Language: Russian

Original language title: ЗЕМЕЛЬНАЯ РЕФОРМА В ПОСТСОВЕТСКИХ СТРАНАХ ЮЖНОГО КАВКАЗА

Keywords: LAND REFORM, LAND CADASTRE, ARMENIA, GEORGIA, AZERBAIJAN, THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH REPUBLIC, PRIVATIZATION OF LAND, SMALL LAND PLOTS

Abstract: Land reform in the post-Soviet countries of the South Caucasus, led to the emergence of new forms of land tenure for these countries. The main goals of land reform were proclaimed: the creation of qualitatively new land relations based on the principles of economic freedom and social justice, ensuring food security, and developing an entrepreneurial initiative. Analyzing the results of the land reform from the point of view of the proclaimed tasks in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), it is necessary to make several conclusions. In the unrecognized NKR, all the tasks of land reform were solved, and most importantly, a layer of successful farmers was created. In Azerbaijan and Georgia, the land was transferred to private ownership, its free purchase / sale. Exchange and other operations related to the ownership of the land were allowed, but as a result of reforms most of the better fertile land turned to be in hands of officials of different levels. The overwhelming number of farmers in both countries became owners of very small land plots - an average of 0.5 and 0.9 ha per family, respectively. At the same time, small private farms, unlike large state and collective farms, do not receive any state support.

Authors: Volkov Sergei Gennadevich