With the change of the political regime in Central and Eastern Europe, both managers of corporate farms and newly established private farmers had to adjust to the rules of the market economy. Among both groups, some are economically more successful than others. In general, a varying adoption of...

In this paper we analyze the factors that influence the productivity of maize among smallholder farmers. We use farm-household survey data in order to compare the productivity of smallholder maize production under integrated (ISFM) and chemical-based soil fertility management using a normalized...

Auf Basis einer empirischen Untersuchung zu einem Stallbaukonflikt kann gezeigt werden, dass entgegen der öffentlichen Diskussion besonders die Einschätzung der persönlichen Be-einträchtigung durch einen Stallneubau zur Ablehnung führt. Tier- und Umweltschutzargrum-ente spielen zwar in der...

There is no single 'best way' of policy development. Bottom-up approaches to policy design and a broad debate among stakeholders facilitate policy learning and innovation. A novel approach of a bottom-up policy design process involving stakeholders is introduced. First results obtained by this...

In the course of economic development there is a general downward trend of agricultural employment. In the EU-15, agricultural employment decreased by 2.3% p.a. (measured in regular persons) and 3.0% p.a. (measured in annual working units) between 1995 and 2000. In some of the new EU Member...

In diesem Beitrag wird die Frage nach Good Governance am Beispiel einer dezentralen und partizipativen Ausgestaltung der Agrarumweltmaßnahmen im Rahmen der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1257/1999 diskutiert und in wesentlichen Teilen beantwortet. Diese auf Grundlage der Effizienz- und Verteilungstheorien...