Agriculture, Peasantry and Poverty in Turkey in the Neo-Liberal Age

by Murat Ozturk

This book investigates recent policies introduced into Turkey which are designed to reduce state activities and open up the country to international investment and trade. This is done in the context of the UNs Millennium Development Goals continuing to stretch into the distant future amid the ongoing instability of the global financial system and economic pressures on the West. The focus is on agriculture and the major effects of a deliberate restructuring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 908686192X
• ISBN13: 9789086861927
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic
• Length: 240 Pages