Politics of Agricultural Co-Operativism
Author | : Tanya Korovkin |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0774843020 |
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This book is a detailed analysis of the evolution of state-sponsored agricultural co-operativism in Peru, an Andean country with high levels of land concentration and widespread rural poverty. Most Peruvian agricultural co-operatives were organized during the military populist government of Velasco Alvarado which, after radical land reform, transformed expropriated estates into co-operatives. From the start, these projects became subject to multiple pressures that ranged from unfavourable government economic policies -- designed to promote import-substitution industrialization at the expense of the agricultural sector -- to the growth of the co-operative bureaucracy and the deterioration of labour discipline.