Abstract
The decrease of production in Cuba's cattle sector has been blamed on technical factors, overlooking the role of the institutional set-up of the sector. The objectives of this article are to describe the sector's institutional framework and to compare the performance of different producer types. The three main producer types differ in their access to illegal markets, in the property rights structure for land and cattle, and in their economic and production success. The fact that at least one of the producer types is successful casts doubt on the prevailing idea that production problems are a result of technical problems. The article analyses how the incomplete and insecure property rights regime in Cuba results in low productivity caused by incentive and other problems.
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