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...

A central criticism common to agricultural economic modelling approaches for policy analysis is that they do not adequately take account of a number of characteristic factors of the agricultural sector. This concerns aspects like the immobility of land, heterogeneity of farms, interactions...

The strong political support for biogas production in Germany over the past decade has greatly affected agricultural production, farms and land markets. This paper analyzes the effects of Germany's biogas policies on agricultural development by using the agent-based simulation model AgriPoliS....