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You mentioned communal access to capital equipment - what was the organizational structure that acquired/owned this equipment? And how was this organisation run
by azernik 10y ago
You mentioned communal access to capital equipment - what was the organizational structure that acquired/owned this equipment? And how was this organisation run and to whom was it accountable?
- danielbarla 10y agoNot OP, but thought this link to Hungary's attempts at collective farming might be relevant [1]. Being Hungarian, I've heard many anecdotal stories lamenting the abolishment of that system, to the detriment of small land owners. (In general, in the post-socialist economy, nothing seems to have taken its place, leading to obvious problems of scale and access to equipment.) The last sentence in the article is quite shocking, though unattributed: > By 1989, Hungary's total annual agricultural output was larger than that of France. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_Hungary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_Hungary
- azernik 10y agoOh yeah - I'm Israeli, so I know what a well-known run agricultural collective can do (in the kibbutz as well as the "lite" version, the moshava). I'm more curious to know what the equivalent structure is in Ghana, and why it has such trouble managing equipment. This has been done before, they're just not doing it well.