| Titre | La réforme agraire en Grèce | |
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| Auteur | Pierre-Yves Péchoux | |
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Revue |
Géocarrefour Titre à cette date : Revue de géographie de Lyon |
| Numéro | volume 50, no 4, 1975 | |
| Page | 317-332 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Agrarian Reform in Greece, a portrait and appreciation. Few studies have been devoted to the appreciation of agrarian reform in Greece. The reason of it is probably that the agrarian reform was launched during the Balkan wars and accelerated under the pressure caused by population exchanges in this area. The author suggests that there were such differences between agrarian structures in the southern provinces of Greece and the territories acquired after 1881 that the agrarian question and the question of Thessaly were the same and one problem. The question was to decide whether the land should be given to those who cultivate it, or not. But its solution was postponed many times because the state and the various parts of the Greek nation usually reconciled together when confronted with the Turks or the Bulgarians. The author stresses the fact the agrarian reform finally appeared as a political and technical must when Greece had to cope with trying internal difficulties and military defeat as refugees poured from all regions formerly inhabited by Greeks. He insists then on the point that is was organised together with the settlement of refugees and various land reclamation's projects. As a constitutional amendment made it possible since 1911 most agricultural estates were assigned to peasants and their owners received compensations. This substitution took a long time. A huge number of small privately owned tenures came out of this reform ; most of them can be considered as too small in the presently prevailing European economic environment ; and because of the inadequacies of the agricultural banking and cooperative system many of these small ferms are nowadays a prey for the urban entrepreneurs and industrialists whose aim is to command the trade of agricultural goods. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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