Abstract
Our study focuses on pasture reform in Azerbaijan within the context of transition and pasture reform in Central Asian and Caucasian countries. Despite the rapid emergence of individualised rights for pasture plots, which is an exceptional development in this region, pasture reform in Azerbaijan has received little attention in the scientific literature. Using evidence from an empirical case study we analyse the implementation and outcomes of the reform process for pastoral land in the context of the macroeconomic development in Azerbaijan and in comparison to pasture reforms in other post-socialist transition countries. We apply the evolutionary theory of property rights to explain and analyse the exceptionally rapid emergence of individual property rights to pasture in Azerbaijan.
Highlights
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Caucasian and Central Asian (CCA) countries underwent a period of fundamental political, economic and social reorganisation, providing an interesting set of cases for scholars of institutional change in natural resource management
We apply the evolutionary theory of property rights to explain and analyse the exceptionally rapid emergence of individual property rights to pasture in Azerbaijan
In the case study lease prices for the majority of lease contracts are fixed by legal rules, the lease prices do not reflect land value as one would expect under free market conditions
Summary
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Caucasian and Central Asian (CCA) countries underwent a period of fundamental political, economic and social reorganisation, providing an interesting set of cases for scholars of institutional change in natural resource management. Several case studies do exist, but the comparative analysis of pastoral land reform processes across CCA countries is still underdeveloped, some comparative analysis has been done (Kerven 2003; Kerven et al 2011, 2012). From the 1920s, socialist governance structures transformed pastoralism in similar ways in all CCA countries, resulting in reduced mobility and restructured collective herding organisations. Post-socialist reforms altered the political, economic and social conditions again, though the timing and extent of the reforms differ between countries
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