Journal Articles on Agricultural Transition and Cooperatives

C. Parliament, Z. Lerman, and J. Fulton, “Performance of Cooperatives and Investor Owned Firms in the Dairy Industry,” Journal of Agricultural Cooperation, Vol. 5, pp. 1-16 (1990).

Z. Lerman and C. Parliament, “Comparative Performance of Food-Processing Cooperatives and Investor-Owned Firms,” Agribusiness, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 527-540 (1990).

Y. Kislev, Z. Lerman, and P. Zusman, “Recent Experience with Cooperative Farm Credit in Israel,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 773-789 (July 1991).

Z. Lerman and C. Parliament, “Size and Industry Effects in the Performance of Agricultural Cooperatives,” Agricultural Economics, Vol. 6, pp. 15-29 (1991).

Z. Lerman and C. Parliament, “Estimating the Accounting Profitability of Pooling Cooperatives,” Journal of Agribusiness, Vol. 9, pp. 3-11 (1991).

Z. Lerman, K. V. Mozhin, N. N. Sapova, and E. V. Tankhilevich, “The Personal Auxiliary Holding in Russia: A Prototype Farm?” Studies on Soviet Economic Development, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 212-217 (1992).

C. Csaki and Z. Lerman, “Land Reform and Farm Sector Restructuring in the Former Soviet Union and Russia,” Aula: Society and Economy, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 7-22 (1993).

Z. Lerman and C. Parliament, “Financing Growth in Agricultural Cooperatives,” Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 435-445 (September 1993).

C. Parliament and Z. Lerman, “Risk and Equity in Agricultural Cooperatives,” Journal of Agricultural Cooperation, Vol. 8, pp. 1-14 (1993).

K. Brooks and Z. Lerman, “Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Russia: 1992 Status,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 75, pp. 1254-1259 (December 1993).

C. Csaki and Z. Lerman, “Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in the Former Socialist Countries in Europe,” European Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, pp. 553-576 (1994).

K. Brooks and Z. Lerman, “Farm Reform in the Transition Economies,” Finance and Development, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 25-28 (December 1994).

Z. Lerman, Ye. Tankhilevich, K. Mozhin, and N. Sapova, “Self-Sustainability of Subsidiary Household Plots: Lessons for Privatization of Agriculture in Former Socialist Countries,” Post-Soviet Geography, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 526-542 (November 1994).

K. Brooks and Z. Lerman, “Restructuring of Traditional Farms and New Land Relations in Russia,” Agricultural Economics, Vol. 13, pp. 11-25 (November 1995).

Z. Lerman, K. Brooks, and C. Csaki, “Restructuring of Traditional Farms and New Land Relations in Ukraine,” Agricultural Economics, Vol. 13, pp. 27-37 (November 1995).

Z. Lerman, J. Garcia-Garcia, and D. Wichelns, “Land and Water Policies in Uzbekistan,” Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 145-174 (March 1996).

Z. Lerman and K. Brooks, “Russia’s Legal Framework for Land Reform and Farm Restructuring,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 48-58 (November-December 1996).

C. Csaki and Z. Lerman, “Agricultural Transition Revisited: Issues of Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in East Central Europe and the Former USSR,” Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 211-240 (July-September 1996).

C. Csaki and Z. Lerman, “Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in East Central Europe and the CIS in the 1990s: Expectations and Achievements after Five Years,” European Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 24, No. 3/4, pp. 428-452 (September-October 1997).

C. Csaki and Z. Lerman, “Land Reform in Ukraine: Slow Progress,” Society and Economy in Central and Eastern Europe, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 46-70 (1997).

Z. Lerman, “Does Land Reform Matter? Some Experiences from the Former Soviet Union,” European Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 307-330 (September 1998).

Z. Lerman, “New Farm Structures in FSU: Has Efficiency Begun to Change?” Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 236-253 (April 1999).

Z. Lerman, “Land Reform and Farm Restructuring: What Has Been Accomplished to Date?” American Economic Review, Vol. 89, No. 2, pp. 271-275 (May 1999).

Z. Lerman, “Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Ukraine,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 42-55 (May/June 1999).

Z. Lerman, “From Common Heritage to Divergence: Why the Transition Countries are Drifting Apart by Measures of Agricultural Performance,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 82, No. 5, pp. 1140-1148 (2000).

C. Csaki and Z. Lerman, “Agrarian Reform in Belarus: What Has Been Achieved After a Decade of Gradualism,” Quarterly Journal of International Economics Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 237-260 (2000).

C. Csaki and Z. Lerman, “Farm Restructuring in Ukraine: Policies to Revive the Agricultural Sector,” Policy Studies , No. 15, pp. 16-24 (January 2001).

Z. Lerman, A Decade of Land Reform and Farm Restructuring: What Russia Can Learn from the World Experience, Quarterly Journal of International Economics, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 3-26 (2001).

Z. Lerman, Agriculture in Transition Economies: From Common Heritage to Divergence, Agricultural Economics, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 95-114 (November 2001).

C. Csaki and Z. Lerman, Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Moldova: A Real Breakthrough? Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 42-52 (January-February 2002).

C. Csaki and Z. Lerman, “Land and Farm Structure in Transition: The Case of Poland,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 305-322 (2002).

Z. Lerman, C. Csaki, and G. Feder, “Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Transition Countries,” Transition Newsletter, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 5-9 (March-April 2002).

Z. Lerman, Privatization of Land in Russia, Economic Systems, Vol. 26, pp. 149-151 (2002).

C. Csaki, Z. Lerman, A. Nucifora, and G. Blaas, The Agricultural Sector of Slovakia on the Eve of EU Accession, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 305-320 (2003).

Z. Lerman, Y. Kislev, A. Kriss, and D. Biton, Agricultural Output and Productivity in the Former Soviet Republics.  Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 999-1018 (2003).

Z. Lerman and I. Stanchin, “Institutional Changes in Turkmen Agriculture: Impacts on Productivity and Rural Incomes,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 18-30 (2004).

Z. Lerman, “Policies and Institutions for Commercialization of Subsistence Farms in Transition Countries,” Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 15, pp. 461-479 (June 2004).

Z. Lerman, C. Csaki, and G. Feder, “Evolving Farm Structures and Land Use Patterns in Former Socialist Countries,” Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, Vol. 43, No. 4 (2004).

Z. Lerman and I. Stanchin, “Principles of land relations in developed market economies and possibilities of their adaptation to Turkmenistan,” AltynAsyr (The Economy of the Golden Age), No. 7(50), pp. 26-28 (August 2004) [in Turkmen, Russian, and English].

D. Bezemer and Z. Lerman, “Rural Livelihoods in Armenia,” Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 333-348 (September 2004).

M. Grazhdaninova and Z. Lerman, “Allocative and Technical Efficiency of Corporate Farms in Russia,” Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 200-213 (March 2005).

R. Ruben and Z. Lerman, “Why Nicaraguan Peasants Stay in Agricultural Cooperatives,” European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, Vol. 78, pp. 3-19 (April 2005).

W. Liefert, Z. Lerman, B. Gardner, and E. Serova, “Agricultural Labor in Russia: Efficiency and Profitability,” Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 412-417 (September 2005).

Z. Lerman and P. Schreinemachers, Individual Farming as a Labor Sink: Evidence from Poland and Russia, Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 675-695 (December 2005).

Z. Lerman and D. Cimpoies, “Land Consolidation as a Factor for Rural Development in Moldova,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 439-455 (May 2006).

Z. Lerman, “The Impact of Land Reform on Rural Household Incomes in Transcaucasia,” Eurasian Geography and Economics,Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 112-123 (2006).

Z. Lerman and N. Shagaida, “Land Policies and Agricultural Land Markets in Russia,” Land Use Policy, Vol. 24, pp. 14-23 (2006).

B. Gardner and Z. Lerman, “Agricultural Cooperative Enterprise in the Transition from Socialist Collective Farming,” Journal of Rural Cooperation, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 1-18 (2006).

Kan, A. Kimhi, and Z. Lerman, “Farm Output, Non-Farm Income, and Commercialization in Rural Georgia,” eJade–The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 276-286 (2006) [http://www.fao.org/es/esa/en/ejade.htm]

Z. Lerman, E. Serova, and D. Zvyagintsev, “Diversification of Rural Incomes and Non-Farm Rural Employment: Survey Evidence from Russia,” The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 61-80 (2008).

Z. Lerman and W. Sutton, “Productivity and Efficiency of Small and Large Farms in Transition: Evidence from Moldova,” Post-Soviet Affairs ,Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 97-120 (2008).

Z. Lerman, “Land Reform, Farm Structure, and Agricultural Performance in CIS Countries,” China Economic Review, Vol. 20, Issue 2, pp. 316-326 (June 2009) [doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2008.10.007]

Z. Lerman, “Agricultural Development in Central Asia: A Survey of Uzbekistan, 2007-2008,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 481-505 (2008).

Z. Lerman, “Agricultural Recovery in the Former Soviet Union: An Overview of 15 Years of Land Reform and Farm Restructuring,” Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 391-412 (December 2008).

D. Sedik and Z. Lerman, “Land Reform, Transition, and Rural Development,” Development & Transition, No. 11, pp. 2-5 (December 2008) www.developmentandtransition.net

Z. Lerman and D. Sedik, “Agricultural Development and Household Incomes in Central Asia: A Survey of Tajikistan, 2003-2008,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 301-326 (May-June 2009).

Z. Lerman, “Farm Structure and Market Constraints: A Focus on CEE and CIS Countries,” Uniform Law Review, Vol. 27, pp. 235-246 (2012).

D. Sedik, Z. Lerman, and V. Uzun, “Agricultural Policy in Russia and WTO Accession,” Post-Soviet Affairs (July 2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2013.817160