Rozelle, ScottSwinnen, Johan F. M.2012-03-302012-03-302009China Economic Review1043951Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4903The dramatic transition from Communism to market economies across Asia and Europe started in the Chinese countryside in the 1970s. Since then more than a billion of people, many of them very poor, have been affected by radical reforms in agriculture. However, there are enormous differences in the reform strategies that countries have chosen. This paper presents a set of arguments to explain why countries have chosen different reform policies.ENEconomic Development: AgricultureNatural ResourcesEnergyEnvironmentOther Primary Products O130Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Political EconomyProperty Rights P260CollectivesCommunesAgriculture P320Land Ownership and TenureLand ReformLand UseIrrigationAgriculture and Environment Q150Journal ArticleWorld Bank