A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has highlighted the food insecurity problem facing the globe: food production will have to increase by 70 percent in 2050 to keep up with a global population that is projected to grow from 6 billion to 9 billion. There has...

Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty and emerging threats to food security. While growth can be achieved by expansion of agricultural area and input intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a...

The paper builds predictive scenarios for the agricultural sector of eleven Mediterranean countries (Med 11), namely Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. First, it assesses the performance trends of the Med 11 agricultural sector with a...

En Argentina han surgido iniciativas cuyo objetivo es restringir el menú de opciones contractuales que pueden ser elegidas por dueños de tierra y arrendatarios agrícolas. Asimismo, y en respuesta a preocupación por la creciente importancia de la soja (que algunos clasifican como...

This paper is about the effect of climate change on Sub-Sahara African (SSA) agricultural production in a post-colonial setting. While agricultural production certainly is the result of a multi-dimensional process (influenced by diverse branches of politics, by technology, and also by trade...

The paper investigates spatial changes in cultivation and land use of wheat, maize and oilseed in Hungarian agriculture using different methods to measure these changes. The results suggest that spatial structure of crop productions has remained fairly stable during analysed period. The spatial...

Die Pachtpreise in den neuen Bundesländern liegen deutlich unter denen im früheren Bundesgebiet. Nach der neoklassischen Theorie müssten die Pachtpreisunterschiede alleine durch die ökonomische Wertgrenzproduktivität der Flächen zu erklären sein. Einer der Wegbereiter der...