Die Landwirtschaft steht derzeit unter der besonderen Herausforderung, sich zugleich einer wachsenden gesellschaftlichen Kritik an modernen, zunehmend großbetrieblichen Produktionsweisen zu stellen als auch die Möglichkeiten weiteren technologischen Fortschritts zu realisieren, um im...

Demographic trends affect EU farms' availability of successors and hired labour. If a potential successor is available, generational renewal on family farms occurs in stages: the successor's identity formation, the farm transfer, and the farm development. If generational renewal on the farm...

This paper aims to examine the extent to which human participants show higher resilience compared to computer agents in agent-based participatory experiments. We motivate and examine three types of resilient behaviour of farmers during a crisis or as response to competitive pressure: successful...

Russia is a major player in the global wheat market, but extensive unused land resources and large yield gaps suggest that wheat production can be substantially increased. We combined time series of cultivated cropland, abandoned cropland and yield gap estimates to assess the potential...