Dans ce contexte, s'intéresser aux changements intervenus dans le secteur agricole dans l'Est de l'Allemagne, passé d'un système organisé en coopératives socialistes et grandes fermes d'Etat à la propriété privée, apparaît particulièrement pertinent.
In this context it would be a particularly useful exercise to take a look at the changes which have taken place in the agricultural sector in eastern Germany, which has switched from a system based on socialist cooperatives and large state-owned farms to a system based on private ownership.