In the recent decades agricultural production in Uzbekistan has been facing problems in relation to environment and agricultural management systems especially with regard to the efficiency and the productivity of agricultural enterprises. The sharp decrease of total factor productivity after...

This article reviews the evidence on agricultural service cooperatives in two countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)—Ukraine and Kazakhstan—and considers the reasons for their lack of development compared to the countries of North America and Western Europe. Only one farm...

Traditional Knowledge (TK) systems have always been integral to the survival and adaptation of human societies. Yet, they enjoy a fairly recent recognition and popularization by scientists, the media, politicians, corporates and the wider public. In this paper we present a typology of key...

In EU Countries in the last decade there has been a reduction of the number of farms, combined with a significant increase in their average size. First response to crisis in EU agriculture is the enhancement the competitiveness of farms in bio-economy issues, i.e. quality: EU farmers must build...

This paper aims at investigating what influences the distribution of the RDP funds across the EU space. Eventually, funds allocation is the consequence of some political decision. Nonetheless, this political decision can not be directly observed. While the allocation across countries and, when...

For decades, the rural development and poverty alleviation agenda in sub-Saharan Africa has emphasised support for smallholder farming and little else. Foreign large-scale miners and other industrial operators have complied, establishing agriculture-support services and programs for communities...

Farmers’ technology adoption in electric irrigation has recently been analyzed as a coordination problem. To study how the Pareto-inferior equilibrium, farmers are trapped in, can be overcome we have developed a framed field experiment. Leadership and group size are varied in a full factorial...

Der Milchkonflikt und die Auseinandersetzung zwischen dem Deutschen Bauernverband und dem Bundesverband Deutscher Milchviehhalter stellt die Grundlage dieses Beitrages dar. Ziel ist es, die relevanten Konfliktfaktoren zu identifizieren und die verschiedenen Eskalationsstufen des Konfliktes in...

Viele Regionen - besonders in Ostdeutschland - werden durch sinkende Geburtenraten und selektive Abwanderung geprägt. Viele Kommunen sind nicht mehr in der Lage, ihren gesetzlichen Verpflichtungen bei der öffentlichen Daseinsvorsorge nachzukommen. Entgegen dem allgemeinen Trend nimmt die...