"Debate about how best to ensure the preservation of agricultural biodiversity is caught in a counter-productive polemic between proponents and critics of market-based instruments and agricultural modernisation. This book argues that neither position does justice to the range of strategies that...

Auf Initiative des Deutschen Bauernverbandes entstand ein gut lesbarer Überblick über die Entwicklung der Landwirtschaft Deutschlands und Europas in den letzten 30 Jahren. Die Autoren sind Wissenschaftler an Universitäten oder leitende Funktionsträger des Berufsstandes. Sie beschäftigen...

- What has been achieved in rural finance and institutional reform during more than a decade of transition and what challenges remain? - What are the special needs of South Eastern European countries to attract agricultural credit and finance to their troubled agro-food sectors? - What should be...