entities with land over 50 hectares use 650 hectares of agricultural land on the average. This is nearly six times the average … area of one-person farms with land over 50 hectares (114 ha). In the 650 farms, the difference is twenty-fold – these farms … cultivate a total of 1.4 million hectares, each having 2,100 hectares of land on average. According to the list of direct area …

any predictive power on changing rural land use in recent years. To do this I attempt to answer three questions: 1. Do … recent commodity prices have any predictive power on land use conversions? 2. Is recently sold land more likely to change use …? 3. Does land which is marginal between uses have identifiable characteristics? I present my preliminary findings, which …

agricultural markets. With higher production costs, extensive farming tends to be more beneficial to biodiversity than intensive …

the impact is subject to debate. Fully understanding the role of biofuels on agricultural markets requires properly … land, the largest input, to remain fixed regardless of price change. This study overcomes this limitation by setting … markets. The simulation of the model under alternative biofuel policies and market conditions reveals that a fuller …

density of development. Characteristics of TDR markets are described, including why they might promote efficiency, and the … assess the potential for TDRs to influence subdivision density, and to achieve local land preservation goals. The Calvert …

, where dNPV/dW > 0 and dNPV/d(S/W) < 0. Upstream changes in land use (i.e. forest clearing or forest establishment, which … result in higher or lower water-yields, respectively) are driven by economic consequences for land owners. This paper defines … conditions under which costs of strategic upstream land use changes could be exceeded by compensations afforded by downstream …

/policy and programmes to develop agroindustrial sector, marketing and trade, success stories, as well as problems faced by …