Durch die Novellierung des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes (EEG) im Jahr 2004 wurde eine attraktive Förderung des Einsatzes Nachwachsender Rohstoffe zur Energieerzeugung eingeführt, die seitdem zu einer rasanten Ausdehnung des wettbewerbsstarken Anbaus von Energiemais geführt hat. Mit Hilfe des...

This paper develops a methodology for asymmetric treatment of desirable and undesirable outputs. First, a hyperbolic output efficiency measurement is used to describe a middle term transformation of production processes where producers try to improve their competitiveness together with a...

This paper describes the bio-economic land use model ProLand and presents selected results for scenarios of coupled and fully decoupled Pillar One transfer payments under the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The basic assumption for the model is that land users select the land...

The 2003 CAP Reform left EU member states much room for national implementation. The farm group model EU-FARMIS is applied to quantify the effects of the reform and the impacts of the options for national implementation. The analysis is done for France and Germany because their implementation...

Managing the Use of Land by Means of Regional Planning: Instruments and Collaboration Problems between the Farming Community and Nature ConservationAfter describing a series of plans with implications for land use, this study aims to examine the collaboration problems which exist between the...

In diesem Beitrag wird das Potenzial für die Erzeugung von Bioenergieträgern der Landwirtschaft der Europäischen Union quantifiziert. Dabei werden Potenziale aus stillgelegten Flächen und Flächenumwidmungen zu anderen Zwecken berücksichtigt. Weiterhin wird von der vereinfachenden...

Both climate and agricultural policy changes are commonly seen as important drivers for agricultural production. In this study, scena-rios of climate and political change were calculated for the Upper Danube catchment area using the regional optimization model ACRE. Two political scenarios were...

Analyses of the impact of European policies on agricultural change are most often based on agricultural sector models. Such models have their limitations: they cannot specify the interaction between agriculture and the rest of the economy, and their spatial dimension is usually limited. Land use...

The framework conditions surrounding agricultural production in Germany have changed dramatically due to the Renewable Energy Law (EEG) and a sustained increase in agricultural prices. The Common Agricultural Policy, substantially reformed in the Luxemburg Compromise, will be considered in the...

This paper presents an attempt to model the response of selected farms to decoupled direct payments and the associated impact on the provision of a defined set of non-commodity outputs (NCO's) using a combined modelling approach consisting of the AgriPoliS and MODAM models. AgriPoliS focuses on...