This paper aims to examine the relationship between soil quality and farmland prices over time. Soil quality is often used as an explanatory variable for farmland prices in hedonic price models. However, the agricultural land market has shown an enormous price increase over the last decade....

Empirical studies on farmland rental rates have predominantly concentrated on modelling conditional means using spatial autoregressive models, where a linear functional form between the response and the covariates is usually assumed. However, if it is in fact non-linear, misspecifying the...

Vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels und der Endlichkeit fossiler Ressourcen steht eine Vielzahl regionaler Landnutzungsentscheidungen an. Hierbei sind unterschiedlichste landwirtschaftliche und forstwirtschaftliche Konfliktfelder zwischen Produzenten, Stakeholdern und der regionalen Governance...

Abstract: This study examines whether the decision of crop diversification for perennial crops is based on underlying risk attitudes and time preferences. We conducted incentivised field experiments on Sumatra Island, Indonesia, involving farmers who cultivate rubber and farmers who cultivated...

Aus dem Institut fur Agrar- und Ernahrungswissenschaften (Geschaftsflihrender Direktor: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Jahn) der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultat III (Dekan: Prof. Dr. Peter Wycisk) der...