Cover; Agriculture, Poverty and Reform in Iran; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; The pattern of the study; Difficulties concerning the statistics; Iranian agriculture: a general view; 2. Agricultural backwardness in theory; Traditional tenancy systems: major features and problems; Sharecropping and efficiency; Sharecropping, investment and innovation; Sharecropping as risk sharing; Additional motives for sharecropping; Concluding remarks; 3. Pre-reform Iranian village; Land concentration; Sharecropping
6. The agrarian system after the land reformThe implementation of the Iranian land reform; The distribution of land ownership and land tenure after the reform; Concluding remarks; 7. Economic consequences of the land reform; The land reform and irrigation sources; The rural capital market; The rural labour market; Modernization of farming techniques after the reform; The new agrarian system and agricultural production; Concluding remarks; 8. Rural poverty and inequality after the reform; Prevalence of subsistence farming; Persistence of low levels of living in rural areas; Conclusion
Techniques of production and investment in agricultureAgricultural production and rural income; Concluding remarks; 4. Theoretical analysis of land reform; Definition of land reform; Political dimension of land reform; Economics of land reform; Concluding remarks; 5. An analysis of the Iranian land reform programme; A review of the background of the land reform; The first stage of land reform; The second stage of land reform; The third stage of land reform; Analysis of the land reform legislation, and the government's agrarian attitude and policies; Concluding remarks
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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 fa.