Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/150012 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Citation: 
[Journal:] World Development [ISSN:] 0305-750X [Volume:] 43 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2013 [Pages:] 164-179
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
Against the global debate on socially responsible agro-investment, we explore the conditions, patterns, and impacts of recent agricultural recovery in Kazakhstan’s northern grain provinces. Vertically and horizontally integrated agroholdings brought outside investment and management to this region. With stable employment in agriculture, real consumption spending of rural households has doubled within an 8-year period. Due to the socialist tradition of industrialized farming operations, rural inhabitants regard themselves primarily as workers and not as land owners. We conclude that investment in large-scale farming can provide benefits to rural people even with less than ideal-type political representation.
Subjects: 
agricultural investment
land grabbing
farm organization
rural poverty
Kazakhstan
JEL: 
O13
P32
Q12
Q15
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)

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