How to revitalise the agricultural sector under the commitments of membership in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has emerged as a major policy challenge for the Russian government. According to the current State Programme for the Development of Agriculture, a key support channel is via...

How to revitalise the agricultural sector under the commitments of membership in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has emerged as a major policy challenge for the Russian government. According to the current State Programme for the Development of Agriculture, a key support channel is via...

The dissertation aims to develop and apply new empirical methods to analyze and model farm structural change. Changes of the farm structure are not only important for the sector itself but may have broader economic, social and environmental consequences for a region. Understanding this process...

"Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism. They also examine...

Brazilian agriculture has undergone a process of transformation in recent decades, being featured on the world agricultural production at both the production and productivity. The United States are characterized as highlighted in the agricultural world, therefore, is a reference for comparison...

Diese Untersuchung analysiert die agrarstrukturellen Wirkungen der Hofabgabeklausel (HAK) sowie die möglichen Folgen einer Abschaffung dieser Leistungsvoraussetzung für den Rentenbezug in der Alterssicherung der Landwirte (AdL). Dazu werden die Altersstrukturen in der Landwirtschaft Eu-weit...

Did Russia's emancipated serfs really pay too much for too little land? : statistical anomalies and long-tailed distributions -- On good numbers and bad : Malthus, population trends, and peasant standard of living in late Imperial Russia -- Serfs in Imperial Russia demographic insights -- Serf...

Die Broschüre gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Betriebsgrößen und -flächen, über die Anbauverhältnisse, die Ernteerträge sowie die Tierhaltung in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Angaben zu Arbeitskräften, zur Milchproduktion und zu Schlachtungen runden das Zahlenmaterial ab.

The findings presented in this edited book are derived from the activities of the SCARLED (Structural Change in Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods) project. It had been co-financed by the European Commission and lasted from January 2007 until September 2010. SCARLED pursued two major research...

This study addresses the structural heterogeneity and production of Brazilian agriculture. Economic indicators of labor productivity, specialization and income concentration in agriculture are analyzed. The structural heterogeneity can be evidenced through the persistence of economic differences...

Durch die Einführung und Novellierung des Erneuerbaren-Energien-Gesetz (EEG) ist in den vergangen Jahren die Stromproduktion durch Biogas in Deutschland und gerade auch in Schleswig-Holstein stark angestiegen. In dem Zeitraum von 2004 bis 2010 hat sich die Anzahl von Biogasanlagen in...

Diese Untersuchung analysiert die agrarstrukturellen Wirkungen der Hofabgabeklausel (HAK) sowie die möglichen Folgen einer Abschaffung dieser Leistungsvoraussetzung für den Rentenbezug in der Alterssicherung der Landwirte (AdL). Dazu werden die Altersstrukturen in der Landwirtschaft EU-weit...

This policy brief summarizes the scientific discussion about land deals and presents some initial empirical results from a field trip to a large land investment in Zambia. It is intended to serve as a background paper for the symposium session "Dealing with the Race for Agricultural Land" at the...

The current discussion regarding the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is challenging due to the varying needs and interests of the old and new member states (NMS) of the European Union (EU). The NMS still display tremendous disparities in most structural and socio-economic...