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Land Ownership Inequality and Rural Factor Markets in Turkey

Part of the The Economics of the Middle East Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137110886

ISBN: 978-1-349-29846-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 17, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Why Agriculture?

Ünal, Fatma Gül

Pages: 1 –38

[My grandmother was a peasant woman, an agricultural worker, and a landlord’s second wife. One day a government official came to our village—Harmandali, a tiny village in Central Anatolia—and on entering my grandfather’s homestead, he saw my grandmother working barefoot, her feet covered in sheep...
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Chapter 2A Portrait of Turkish Agriculture: Inequality and its Discontents

Ünal, Fatma Gül

Pages: 39 –62

[With its agroclimatic diversity and large amounts of arable land, Turkey has a great agricultural advantage to produce a rich variety of high-quality and high-quantity agricultural products.1 Turkey ranks number one in the world for total quantity produced in poppy seeds, hazelnuts, apricots,...
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Chapter 3Sharecropping or Fixed-Rent Tenancy?

Ünal, Fatma Gül

Pages: 63 –94

[In a world with no uncertainty and perfect markets, where all inputs are divisible, there would be no room for tenancy in agriculture (Nabi 1985). In a perfect world, landless peasants could borrow money without collateral and purchase their own land, as opposed to being sharecroppers. In such a...
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Chapter 4Testing for Inverse Size-Yield Relationship in Turkish Agriculture

Ünal, Fatma Gül

Pages: 95 –127

[Two of the most common characteristics of developing countries are the large share of agriculture in their economies and poorly functioning and/or nonexistent factor markets. The intersection of these two features produces the widely observed inverse size-yield relationship (IR) (Sen 1962, 1966;...
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Chapter 5Market Failure and Land Concentration in Turkey

Ünal, Fatma Gül

Pages: 129 –152

[According to the conventional theory in economics, it is presumed that perfectly competitive markets allow the full utilization of land, labor, and capital, and their efficient allocation across alternative uses. This assertion provides a theoretical as well as a normative benchmark for economic...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

Ünal, Fatma Gül

Pages: 153 –178

[In this book, we have conducted an exhaustive empirical analysis to document how rural factor markets function and to investigate how landownership inequality impedes this functioning using Turkey as a case study.]

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