In der Vergangenheit verfolgte eine agrarpolitische Einflussnahme in erster Linie Mengen- und Qualitätsziele der Produktion. Die übrigen Leistungen des Sektors Landwirtschaft, z.B. umwelt- und raumbezogene Leistungen, wurden eher als selbstverständlich hingenommen. Mittlerweile tritt aber die...

Few policies have been as heavily criticised as European agricultural policy. Consequently, since its establishment in 1962, it has been in a continuous process of reform, encompassing six major reforms in the last 30 years alone. The central question arises: What is the logic behind the endless...

The article describes the reform path of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) since 1992. The largest share of agricultural subsidies in Germany (€7.2 billion) is granted through the CAP with significant room for manoeuvre in terms of content. Between 1992-2013, the old, protectionist CAP...

Obwohl technischer Fortschritt die Basis der Wohlstandsentwicklung unserer Gesellschaft bildet, ist der Terminus „Agrarstrukturwandel“ in der politischen Diskussion negativ belegt. Ein Grund ist, dass struktureller Wandel nicht notwendigerweise zum Vorteil für alle Beteiligten führt,...

Water is a key input to agricultural production and therefore fluctuations in water availability may impact agricultural productivity and revenue. Climate science tells us that most of these fluctuations are increasingly resulting from intra-year, instead of interyearly, shifts in the timing and...

This paper applies the Malmquist productivity index method to measure total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Vietnamese agriculture using panel data from 60 provinces in Vietnam during 1985-2000 when Vietnam implemented widespread de-collectivization, trade liberalization, and reformed her...

The conventional functional form of the Constant-Elasticity-of-Substitution (CES) production function is a general production function nesting a number of other forms of production functions. Examples of such functions include Leontief, Cobb-Douglas, and linear production functions....