About 30 percent of the world’s soil carbon is stored in peat soils. Peatland’s functional principle of carbon storage greatly depends on management strategies. Therefore agricultural peatland use becomes a focal point of interest in the current debate on climate protection. Agricultural...

The effects of policy supported farm investments on structural change in agriculture have been studied rarely. The heterogeneity of farms and the problem of self-selection are challenging the evaluation of treatments in agriculture. Econometric methods can help to overcome these problems. In...

In comparison to flatland agriculture mountainous agriculture is often shaped by small plot sizes, unfavourable climatic conditions and steep slopes. All those conditions make it extraordinarily expensive to implement new technologies and to modernise farms. Consequently our research hypothesis...

In Folge bestehender Produktionsrichtlinien und -auflagen kommt es im Zuge der Umstellung auf biologische Wirtschaftsweise häufig zu einem erhöhten Investitionsbedarf in den landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben. Diese werden meist mit Unterstützung der Investitionsförderung (M121) durchgeführt....

Maize is one of the most important staple foods that is critical to food security and livelihoods of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Although maize is important staple crop for ensuring food security, it cannot ensure nutritional security. To provide and ensure an adequate supply and greater...

The abolition of the milk quota regime in April 2015 will provide the opportunity for many profitable Irish dairy farms to increase their production levels. Market risk will influence the decision-making process at the farm level. Dairy farmers have acquired more recent experience of market risk...

The relationship between the adoption of several basic farm financial management practices and financial performance is examined for 137 New York dairy farms. Data were gathered from farm business summary participants to understand the capital acquisition practices, business analysis techniques,...