The Kilombero Valley floodplain in Tanzania is a major agricultural area. Government initiatives and projects supported by international funding have long sought to boost productivity. Due to increasing population pressure, smallholder farmers are forced to increase their output. Nevertheless,...

The literature paid some attention, some time ago, to the relationship that, supposedly, should exist between the level of consumer confidence and the unemployment rate. This relationship is interesting, both from a scientific point of view, given the inherently subjective character of that...

Lediglich eine Sicherung ökologsicher Raumfunktionen reicht nicht (mehr) aus, um deren Funktionsfähigkeit im Zuge des Klimawandels und unter zunehmendem Nutzungsdruck zu erhalten. Vielmehr bedarf es eines grundlegenden Perspektivenwechsels auch in der Raumordnungspraxis zum Aufbau einer...

Will private households owning a photovoltaic system share their electricity during a long-lasting power outage? Prior research has shown that our energy systems need to become more resilient by using dispersed energy sources-a role that could well be performed by these private photovoltaic...

While Greece's poor record on investment and exports predates the crisis, the deep economic recession has made addressing long-standing weaknesses a priority. This paper takes a closer look at selected structural reforms that are critical for bolstering investments and exports in Greece. We...

Die Bekämpfung der chronischen Schwächen Griechenlands bei Investitionen und Ausfuhren ist essenziell für die Überwindung der schweren Wirtschaftskrise. Um hier Erfolge zu erzielen, sind die Strukturreformen in den Bereichen Gewerbezulassungen und Unternehmensgründungen, Wettbewerb,...

The concentration of crop cultivation can be measured in terms of spatial clustering and of inequality in the distribution of the cropland area. We used official agricultural statistics at the county level (N = 2,354) for each year from 1980 to 2011 for all of China to analyse the changes in...

This paper analyses the determinants of farmer participation in agri-environmental measures (AEMs) using the Slovenian Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) during the 2004–2010 period. Previous papers have not shown a straightforward relationship between farm size and decisions to participate...

Central and Eastern Europe has experienced fundamental land use changes since the collapse of socialism around 1990. We analyzeanalyzed the patterns and determinants of agricultural land abandonment and recultivation in Slovakia during the transition from a state-controlled economy to an...