n Agrekon - Agricultural transformation : lessons from experience : Simon Brand Memorial Lecture

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Extracted from text ... Agrekon, Vol 44, No 1 (March 2005) Swinnen SIMON BRAND GEDENKLESING SIMON BRAND MEMORIAL LECTURE Die Simon Brand Gedenklesing is op 22 September 2004 te Somerset-Wes gelewer. The Simon Brand Memorial Lecture was delivered on 22 September 2004 at Somerset West. Agricultural transformation: Lessons from experience JFM Swinnen1 1. Introduction It is now fifteen years ago that the Berlin Wall fell, the start of a vast set of changes throughout the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Reforms in the Communist world had started earlier further east: first in China in the late 1970s and in Vietnam ..