The economic, political and climatic conditions in which farmers around the world have to make their production and investment decisions are changing dramatically. This study analyses the driving forces of changes in agricultural world markets and their implications for European Union...

This paper has benefited greatly from a discussion of an earlier version with the participants of the first Humboldt Forum for Food and Agriculture in Davos, Switzerland in March 2009. Research has been made possible in part by a research grant from BASF SE - The Chemical Company. The first two...

Die Verhältnisse an den internationalen Agrarmärkten haben sich in den letzten Jahren grundlegend gewandelt. Traditionelle Exporteure von Agrarprodukten wurden zu Abnehmern und umgekehrt. Eine ganze Reihe bislang im internationalen Agrarhandel nicht maßgeblicher Länder beeinflusst...