Abstract
Thirty years after reunification, the agrarian structures of the new Länder present specific features such as the high level of land concentration, the prevalence of “reverse tenancy”, the functioning of land markets. The East German agrarian trajectory is analyzed in a comparative context including the agricultures extracted from the collectivist system. From a historical perspective, particular attention is paid to the property regimes and the farm structures of these territories located east of the Elbe. The article analyzes the transformation pathways before examining how the hyper concentration of land has opened the way to new forms of investment contributing to the penetration of capitalism in agriculture.