Against the global debate on socially responsible agro-investment, we explore the conditions, patterns, and impacts of recent agricultural recovery in Kazakhstan’s northern grain provinces. Vertically and horizontally integrated agroholdings brought outside investment and management to this...

Water security is a matter of great national importance for Kazakhstan, with its Security Council meeting on 26 June 2019 devoted to “Ensuring Water Security”. This paper presents recent progress in Kazakhstan with regard to identifying water security priorities and establishing indicators...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Das Wissensproblem -- 3. Handlungsmöglichkeiten der Wirtschafts- und Agrarpolitik und das Wissensproblem -- 4. Die ordnenden Kräfte in der russischen Agrarpolitik -- 5. Grundzüge der Agrarpolitik in der Jelzin-Ära -- 6....

This article analyses the reasons for the prevalence of agroholdings in Russia's Belgorod <italic>oblast</italic>', focusing on the forces driving their emergence and persistence. It draws on both case study evidence and a unique farm-level dataset for 2001--07. It argues that, despite notable evidence for...

This article contributes to the understanding of neo-endogenous rural development from the perspective of evolutionary game theory. Rural development is modelled as the increasing realisation over time of gains from interaction by rural stakeholders. The model exhibits two dynamically stable...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of direct payments and rural development measures of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on employment in agriculture. We work with a dynamic labour demand equation augmented by the full set of policy instruments of the CAP, which is...