The paper analyzes the relationship between the allocation of labor and land of the households, the number of crops grown and the number of income sources of the households with different types of shocks and risks. It uses the data from the first phase of the household survey in three provinces...

Die Entwicklung des Arbeitskräfteeinsatzes von 2000 Schweizer Buchhaltungsbetrieben wird zwischen 2004 und 2009 untersucht. Dabei wird nach dem Einsatz von Familienarbeitskräften innerhalb und außerhalb des Betriebs, Fremdarbeitskräften und Lohnarbeit von Dritten und für Dritte...

Im Mai 2011 stellte Deutschland als einer der letzten EU-Staaten die Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit für Bürger der acht neuen EU-Mitgliedstaaten her. Nach Aufhebung der Arbeitserlaubnispflicht wurde ein zunehmender Wettbewerb zwischen verschiedenen Branchen um Saisonarbeitskräfte aus diesen...

Agricultural countries usually produce multiple crops, but a particular area of land is allocated to the production of a certain crop. Understanding how producers make decision to allot acreage among crops and how decisions about land use are affected by changes in prices and their volatility is...

The article assesses legal regulations regarding managing agricultural lands in Poland. The paper presents, first of all, the scope of activity of the Agricultural Property Agency, which is a significant institution on the property market. This institution started its activity on 1 January 1992...

In comparison to flatland agriculture mountainous agriculture is often shaped by small plot sizes, unfavourable climatic conditions and steep slopes. All those conditions make it extraordinarily expensive to implement new technologies and to modernise farms. Consequently our research hypothesis...

This paper empirically measures the prevalence of heterogeneous technologies in a sample of small-scale agricultural producers as an answer to structural conditions and market risks. Such risks are closely linked to the effects of land fragmentation and the degree of market integration. We use...

Questions about land use change induced by policies impacting the agricultural sector such as bio-fuel mandates have clearly raised the interest of understanding to which extent changes in agricultural productions stem from the extensive margins – expansion of agricultural land cover – or...

This paper focuses on factors influencing grassland lease, which will contribute to the heated debate about land use in China by extending to more extensive and vulnerable grassland regions. Based on review of grassland institutional change and analysis of data from 12 villages, this paper...