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2020-04DiskussionspapierFarm Growth and Land Concentration Structural change in agriculture is characterized by the interdependency of farms’ growth decisions due to the limited availability of the production factor land. This paper adds to the sparse empirical literature on the ...
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2020-04DiskussionspapierIdentifying Agricultural Landscape Types for Brandenburg, Germany using IACS Data The increasing demand for agricultural commodities for food and energy purposes has led to intensified agricultural production. This trend may manifest in agricultural compositions and landscape configurations that can ...
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2020BuchBridging the Gap between People and Nature An Evaluation of GIZ/SADC Support Projects for Strengthening Transfrontier Conservation Area Management in Southern Africa
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2020DiskussionspapierAVM and High Dimensional Data - Do Ridge, the Lasso or the Elastic Net provide an 'automated' solution? In this paper, we apply Ridge Regression, the Lasso and the Elastic Net to a rich and reliable data set of condominiums sold in Berlin, Germany, between 1996 and 2013. We their predictive performance in a rolling window ...
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2019BuchAccroître la diversité pour améliorer la nutrition Comportement nutritionnel et interventions efficaces auprès des femmes et des nourrissons en Zambie et au Togo
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2020-02DiskussionspapierCommon values and unobserved heterogeneity in farmland auctions in Germany In this paper, we test for the existence of a common component in agricultural land auctions in eastern Germany during the price boom 2007-2018 and discuss respective policy implications. Using a large, detailed dataset ...
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2019BuchConflits, participation et cogestion dans les Aires Protégées Une étude de cas du Parc National de Lobéké, Cameroun
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2019-08BuchScaling up diversity to scale up nutrition Nutrition behaviour and effective interventions for women and infants in Zambia and Togo
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2020-01DiskussionspapierA geoadditive distributional regression analysis of the local relationship of land prices and land rents in Germany The analysis of sales prices and rents for agricultural land are a classical research topic in agricultural economics. Due to increased dynamic on agricultural land markets, their relationship has gained increased interest ...
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2020-01DiskussionspapierHow useful is listings data for research? Compared to other asset classes, information on transactions of residential real estate is scarce and available only with delay. Listing information from web-platforms is abundant and timely. Is listings data useful for ...
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2020-01DiskussionspapierAn experimental analysis of German farmers’ decisions to buy or rent farmland Farmland is an essential agricultural production factor that farmers can choose to either buy or rent. In this paper, we apply a discrete choice experiment to analyse German farmers’ individual buying and rental decisions ...
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2020-01DiskussionspapierHow green is greening? A fine-scale analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics in Germany The “Greening” measures of the EU’s CAP, implemented in 2015, have been intensively debated in terms of their effectiveness and efficiency for agricultural, environmental, and climate outcomes. This study explores the ...
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2019-12DiskussionspapierMaizification of the Landscape for Biogas Production? Identifying the Likelihood of Silage Maize for Biogas in Brandenburg from 2008-2018The development of biogas production in Germany has reshaped agricultural land use and production schemes since the implementation of the Renewable Energy Sources Act in 2000. It is associated with a widespread introduction ...
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2019-12DiskussionspapierThe Plurality of Farmers’ Views on Soil Management Calls for a Policy Mix While soil degradation is continuing to threaten the global agricultural production system, a common understanding of how to encourage sustainable soil management is missing. With this study, we aim to provide new insights ...
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2019-12DiskussionspapierWhy do farmers care about rented land? Unravelling the influence of tenure on farmers’ soil managementRental shares of agricultural land are increasing in many countries, as are soil degradation and erosion. Theory suggests that these trends may be correlated, yet empirical findings are ambiguous. This research investigates ...
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2019-12DiskussionspapierThe potential for industrial activity among EU regions an empirical analysis at the NUTS2 levelIn the last decade, many parts of the world experienced severe increases in agricultural land prices. This price surge, however, did not take place evenly in space and time. To better understand the spatial and temporal ...
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2019-12DiskussionspapierCan Land Market Regulations fulfill their Promises? After land prices in Germany increased continuously since 2006, policy makers, representatives of farmers’ unions, NGOs, and farmers started and continued to discuss or propose new land market regulations to stop price ...
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2019-08BuchA agricultura nas cidades: Potencialidades e desafios da agricultura urbana em Maputo e Cape Town
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2019-10-29DiskussionspapierPrice dispersion in farmland markets: What is the role of asymmetric information? This article investigates the role played by informational cost in agricultural land markets to explain price dispersion. Based on a hedonic model under incomplete information, we build a two-tier stochastic frontier. ...
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2019-09-20BuchAgricultural policy evaluation with large-scale observational farm data: Environmental impacts of agri-environmental schemes Agri-environmental schemes (AES) target at improving environmental status of cultivated land by remunerating farmers willing to commit to higher environmental standards. Thus far, no consensus exists whether AES incentivize ...
