Riforme agrarie e mutamenti sociali nell’Uzbekistan dell’era dell’Indipendenza
abstract
Cotton farming in Uzbekistan has been thoroughly reshaped by protracted decollectivization aimed at recovering agriculture from the post-Soviet crisis years. Based on a review of extant literature and on data collected over a socio-anthropological research in cotton-growing Khorezm region, this paper offers an overview over the Soviet-era cotton kolkhoz, post-Soviet agricultural reforms and agropolicies, and the transformations in rural society over the second post-Soviet decade. Agriculture in Uzbekistan is now resurfacing from difficult years, but old problems are perduring and prospects and burdens are more unequally distributed among stakeholders.
Keywords: Cotton • Kolkhoz • Agriculture • Post-socialism • Rural society • Decollectivization • Uzbekistan