John Todd Stewart, Launching Agricultural Land Reform in Republic of Moldova

Abstract

The great majority of Moldova’s agricultural land was decollectivized and privatized in the period 1995-2000 through the National Land Program, which was primarily financed by the U.S. Government. In this memoir, John Todd Stewart, who was U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova from 1995 to 1998, describes the origin and development of the “Land” program, which began with a single collective farm and rapidly expanded to all parts of the country.