Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for community...

An exploratory visit to the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru city revealed that dairy producers with larger herd size and potentially stable income preferred to sell to the cooperative whereas those producers with minuscule herd size (upto two cattle) stated a preference to sell to urban...

Ökonomische Experimente sind eine bislang selten verwendete Forschungsmethode im Bereich der agrarpolitischen Analyse. Dieser Beitrag erörtert die Grundlagen von Experimenten, vergleicht sie mit anderen Forschungsmethoden und zeigt ein mögliches Anwendungsgebiet für die Agrarpolitikanalyse...

Dieses Working Paper gibt den Inhalt einer Stellungnahme des Thünen-Institutes für das Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL) wieder. Das BMEL bat im März 2022 das Thünen-Institut abzuschätzen, welche Implikationen eine Nutzungsfreigabe von ökologischen Vorrangflächen...

Since 2006, global prices and price volatility for foodgrain commodities have spiked frequently and dramatically. Such spikes have had the heaviest economic and social impact on developing nations, where agriculture accounts for a sizable portion of economic activity. We demonstrate how US...

At the time of the introduction of the quota system the structure of dairy production in Germany was rather unfavourable. Since 1993, German policy generally aimed at improving quota mobility. The introduction of transfers without land in 1993 facilitated farm growth and the transfer of...