Die in der Nitratrichtlinie vorgegebenen Ziele für die Qualität des Grundwassers konnten bislang weder in Deutschland insgesamt noch in Rheinland-Pfalz (RP) flächendeckend erreicht werden (BMU und BMEL, 2020). In RP befanden sich 2019/2020 35 der insgesamt 117 Grundwasserkörper in schlechtem...

This paper summarizes some of the milestones involved in the road leading "from Agronomist to Agricultural Economist". Personal anecdotes are presented, as well as aspects of professional work undertaken. In relation to this, selected results of research work related to the agricultural firm in...

Food production remains one of the main challenges for humankind in this century, and Brazil is one of the main food-producing countries that have yet some land for economically or technically profitable farming expansion. Then, knowing which areas constitute the Brazilian agricultural frontier...

This forthcoming piece of legal scholarship analyzes the specific ways in which modern property rules are transforming land into an asset class to be monetized, capitalized, and exploited. In fundamental ways, our collective property choices about land calibrate our relationship to physical...

This study was undertaken to analyze the effect of land tenure system practices and farm fragmentation on technical efficiency of rice farmers under the Dadin-Kowa Irrigation Scheme (DKIS) and made use of cross-sectional data from a survey conducted on 284 rice farmers selected by multi-staged...

Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...

Water policy experts contend that the United States is heading toward a water scarcity crisis in the coming years. Global climate change is likely to make water scarcity much worse in the long run. This article argues that demands of current and projected water management challenges can best be...

A main problem in emerging countries is the reduction of poverty in rural areas with sustainable agricultural systems. This study analyses differences between agroecology (a pattern of sustainable economic development with ecological processes directed to reduce production costs and support...

The past 25 years has seen extraordinary growth in global demand for the myriad products obtained from the processing of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) crop. Most of the land conversion required to grow the oil palm crop has occurred in Southeast Asia, predominantly in Indonesia and Malaysia....

This study summarizes the first five years (1991-96) of agrarian reforms in Ukraine, presenting the results of a farm-level survey conducted in 11 provinces between January and March 1996. The findings show that the growth of private farming has slowed down after a vigorous start and that the...