Since 1950, agricultural productivity has been increasing even as labourers leave agriculture. However, while average productivity of the sector has been converging, within-sector inequality has been increasing. Agricultural income inequality is still less than overall income inequality, but it...

The objective of this work, following the guidelines outlined in Pires (2023b and 2023c), is to understand how the agricultural structures of family farming in the Midwest were characterized, in their multi-scale forms, regarding their aspects of location and specialization? To this end, it...

In diesem Thünen Report wird die Verteilung des Eigentums von Landwirtschaftsfläche in Deutschland untersucht und beschrieben. Die Datengrundlage sind Flurstücks- und Eigentümerdaten von 2023 aus dem Liegenschaftskataster (ALKIS) einer breit gestreuten Zufallsstichprobe von 387 Gemeinden,...

Although the policy impacts on farms accumulate year by year, most farm decision models focus on short-term decisions, evaluating policies based on snapshots. Structural changes are gradually built; therefore, farm decision models should consider the sequences within the period under study....

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer (2010) showed that areas under direct colonial rule had fewer schools, health centers, and roads than areas under indirect colonial rule. Two decades later, we find that these...

The objective of this work, following the guidelines outlined in Pires (2023b and 2023c), is to understand how the agricultural structures of family farming in the Midwest were characterized, in their multi-scale forms, regarding their aspects of location and specialization? To this end, it...

In diesem Thünen Report wird die Verteilung des Eigentums von Landwirtschaftsfläche in Deutschland untersucht und beschrieben. Die Datengrundlage sind Flurstücks- und Eigentümerdaten von 2023 aus dem Liegenschaftskataster (ALKIS) einer breit gestreuten Zufallsstichprobe von 387 Gemeinden,...

This is a plan for the final component of the "Experiments for Development of Climate Smart Agriculture" (SMARTEX), which is a collaborative research and capacity-building program with School of Economics and Business (SEB) at NMBU, Ås, Norway and Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural...

Using a 2007-2014 panel of Austrian crop farms, we analyze the effect of multiple dimensions of land fragmentation on farms' production efficiency and risk performance. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a non-parametric linear programming approach, to estimate efficiencies. Technical...

Since the advent of British rule in 1765, the colony of Bengal, once hailed as the most fertile and prosperous region of India, witnessed numerous incidents of food shortages. Apart from the supply and demand side factors are typically associated with a food shortage at an escalated or...

At the moment, the European Union is facing a process that has been going on for decades (for 70 years now), of the disappearance of small farms, under the conditions of financial support mainly oriented towards large farms through the Common Agricultural Policy. The 2024-2027 CAP recognises the...

Traffic congestion is a persistent problem in large metropolises and increasingly common in medium and large cities. Several studies have analyzed the negative effects of congestion in terms of economic productivity loss, increased environmental pollution, and negative health consequences....

The objective of this investigation is to verify how the agricultural productive structures were characterized, in their regional multiscale forms between 1995 and 2021, in what refers to their location and specialization aspects. To this end, it is observed that markets, by leading the style of...

Federal Law No. 13.874/2019, known as the Economic Freedom Act, has strong effects on regulatory policies, including environmental regulation. This work aims to identify the provisions of the Economic Freedom Act that may affect the creation and application of environmental standards, as well as...

The objective of this investigation was to characterize the agricultural structures in the center of the country, in their multiscalar forms, with regard to their location and specialization aspects. For all these reasons, there is a strong specialization in soybean, corn, sugar cane and cotton...

This paper focuses on food riots that arise in the agrarian context characterized by food crises, primarily for the rural poor in developing and undeveloped countries located in Latin America for the current century. It is a preliminary study that investigates the connection between food riots...

The objective of this investigation is to verify how the agricultural productive structures were characterized, in their regional multiscale forms between 1995 and 2021, in what refers to their location and specialization aspects. To this end, it is observed that markets, by leading the style of...

Traffic congestion is a persistent problem in large metropolises and increasingly common in medium and large cities. Several studies have analyzed the negative effects of congestion in terms of economic productivity loss, increased environmental pollution, and negative health consequences....

This paper is about social relations in customary lands for the matrilineal uxorilocal culture of the Lomwe, Nyanja and Yao tribes in Southern Malawi. The study was carried out in the districts of Chiradzulu and Phalombe. Qualitative methods were used to examine local histories and practices to...

The objective of this investigation was to characterize the agricultural structures in the center of the country, in their multiscalar forms, with regard to their location and specialization aspects. For all these reasons, there is a strong specialization in soybean, corn, sugar cane and cotton...

Federal Law No. 13.874/2019, known as the Economic Freedom Act, has strong effects on regulatory policies, including environmental regulation. This work aims to identify the provisions of the Economic Freedom Act that may affect the creation and application of environmental standards, as well as...

This study was undertaken to analyze the effect of land tenure system practices and farm fragmentation on technical efficiency of rice farmers under the Dadin-Kowa Irrigation Scheme (DKIS) and made use of cross-sectional data from a survey conducted on 284 rice farmers selected by multi-staged...

Following the 2007 and 2008 global food crisis, emphasis has been placed on large-scale acquisition and transfer of land for agricultural investment to foreign and domestic investors from the global south as a strategy to address food shortages. Worldwide promotion for large scale agricultural...

Although land and associated property is a key part of national wealth and protecting rights to them is a key function of the state, Africa's formal land institutions often still operate on regulations that barely changed since colonial times, undermining public trust and leading to high levels...

Dieses Gutachten im Auftrag des Freistaats Bayern basiert auf einem Fragenkatalog des Bayerischen Landtags zu Entwicklungen und Handlungsoptionen auf dem landwirtschaftlichen Bodenmarkt in Bayern. Die Fragen werden aus agrarökonomischer und rechtswissenschaftlicher Perspektive beantwortet. Eine...

Since the global food price crisis between 2007 and 2008, governments in developing countries such as Vietnam have paid more attention to food security issues. The government of Vietnam has issued policies to sustain rice land and imposed restrictions upon the transformation of rice land to...

This J.S.M. thesis examines whether Costa Rican legal rules in the 1970s regulating renters, sharecroppers, and others who farmed land that they did not own were functional or not in promoting development. It considered the history of agricultural activity and pattern of land ownership from the...

The contributions of Harold Demsetz offer key insights on how property rights and transaction costs shape economic organization. This guides our comparison of agricultural organization in two comparable regions, the Argentine Pampas and the US Midwest. In the US, land was distributed in small...

We empirically analyze the effect of land reform on rural conflicts in 1930s Spain. This reform is a classical example of property rights reform in a developing economy. Despite its prominence, the effects on rural conflict have been elusive due to lack of hard data. We fill this gap by...

This study investigates the effects of land tenure and property rights (LTPRs) on smallholder farmers’ adoption of climate-smart practices (CSPs) among cereal farming households in Nigeria. The data were collected from maize and rice farmers in a Nation-wide Farm Household Survey conducted...

Weak property rights over land prevent efficient allocation of production factors in the developing world. Farmers lacking titles secure access to the land by providing evidence of productive use. The “use it or lose it” principle leads to a thin land rental market and a misallocation of...