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When in the former Soviet Union in 1990 within the framework of the thorough reorganisation of state and society and in consideration of the catastrophic supply problems it was decided to restructure the agricultural sector as well, the decision-makers were led by the model of agriculture both in Western Europe and the United States where only 2.4 per cent of all farms are not run by peasant families (C. F. Runge 1987, p. 35).The aim was to establish an agricultural system based on family farms and equipped with private property rights to land and other means of production which are not subject to interference by the state (I. Silajev cited in D. Van Atta 1993, p. 75).
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Stahl, S. (1998). Independent Family Farms Versus Hierarchical Forms of Organisation. In: Koslowski, P. (eds) The Social Market Economy. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72129-8_14
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