Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints

Nine essays, stressing the centrality of agriculture to development processes, explore contextual issues that influence rural development in Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. After an introductory overview to the countries of the region, authors from the fields of geography and political science discuss such topics as the role of the smallholder in Turkish agriculture, Russian agrarian reform from 1992 to 1998, the management of transnational waters of the Aral Sea basin, agricultural development and environmental constraints in Northwest Africa, and the conflicts between models of agricultural development and sustainable agriculture in the Middle East.

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