The development of multi-agent models for agriculture has allowed the inclusion of farm decision-making behaviour and interactions in the simulation of smaller agricultural regions. Important methodological impact for this has come in particular from scientists from Germany. Currently under...

The objective of this article is to analyse the trends in on-farm labour use, including own family labour, hired labour and contract work, and to assess the factors driving their evolution in France and in Switzerland during 1990-2007. A particular attention is given to agricultural policies,...

A lot of research is carried out on the Contingent Valuation Method to assess environmental goods. However, the method is rarely applied to quantify reimbursements for agri-environmental policy. In this paper, this contradiction is explained by conceptual shortcomings of the Contingent...

The efficiency of agricultural administration is analysed in this article by costs that arise in a region for administring one hectare farmland or one farm. Variances of these costs between regions can be explained by intra-organisational efficiency on the one hand and by inter-organisational...

The switch from market-support to direct payments in Switzerland had impacts on the income distribution among farmers. In this paper, the distributional effect of the switch as a whole and of the different kinds of direct payments are elaborated through a presentation of different decomposed...

In zahlreichen Ländern werden sowohl vom Wirtschaftsministerium als auch vom Landwirtschaftsministerium Programme der ländlichen Entwicklung unterhalten. In der Schweiz werden heute sowohl unter dem Dach der Neuen Regionalpolitik als auch im Rahmen des Landwirtschaftsgesetzes Projekte zur...

In diesem Beitrag wird nach Wegen gesucht, die nichtmarktlichen Leistungen der Schweizer Landwirtschaft gezielter als bislang in die Landwirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung zu integrieren. Dabei werden drei Methoden geprüft: Die Erfassung der leistungsbezogenen Direktzahlungen, die Ermittlung der...