Recently, we witnessed an immense increase in international land transactions in the Global South, a phenomenon slowly expanding in northern industrialized countries, too. Even though in Europe agriculture plays a decreasing economic role for rural livelihoods, the increases in land transactions...

Recently, studies focused on the effects of large-scale land acquisitions on the local agricultural water sectors have multiplied, yet a conceptual framework designed to disentangle the interlinkages across natural resource systems is missing. To fill this gap, we suggest a property rights...

To date, the land-water-food nexus has been primarily addressed from an ecological, hydrological or agronomic angle, with limited response to the governance interface between the input resources. Likewise, in widely used heuristic frameworks, such as the social-ecological system (SES) framework,...

Die Landwirtschaft und das Landleben befinden sich aufgrund von Stadt-Land-Migration und zunehmender Landkonzentration, angetrieben durch steigende Bodenpreise, im Wandel. Die Auswirkungen des globalen Trends auf Europa, insbesondere Ostdeutschland, wird in dieser Arbeit analysiert. Die soziale...