This paper analyses the impact of tradable and non-tradable single farm payment (SFP) entitlements for farm successors on structural change and the lease market. Using the example of Swiss agriculture, the effects on rental-price trends and farm-exit rates are investigated. An ex-ante normative...

An empirically-based approach was developed to forecast the use of family labour, external labour, contractors and off-farm work in the agentbased sector model SWISSland. The forecast was based on a two-phase procedure. In the first phase, a Bayesian network was used to estimate the agents’...

The Swiss agent-based model (SWISSland) claims to depict as realistically as possible the 50 000 family farms comprising the whole of Swiss agriculture in all their heterogeneity as regards farm and cost structures as well as farm decision-making behaviour and interactions, with the aim of...