Understanding agricultural land systems is paramount to preparing for future transitions under climate change. A first step in moving towards a systematic, multi-context comparison of agricultural land systems is an assessment of data availability and commensurability. We compare publicly...

The media narratives with respect to EU external policies and their effects on developing countries generally paint a picture of unequal power dynamics and negative externalities, particularly with respect to international trade and land grabbing. In this paper, I use trade data to argue that...

This study investigates the impact of agricultural marketing program on smallholder investment behavior. The study is based on cross-sectional household data from a survey of 507 smallholder maize farmers from rural communities in Ghana. The study employed propensity score matching (PSM) to...

[...] Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt bei der Analyse nahm die Entwicklung der Grünlandflächen ein. Mit Hilfe der InVeKoS-Daten lassen sich räumlich hoch aufgelöste Informationen über die Dynamik der landwirtschaftlichen Flächennutzung abbilden. Dabei zeigt sich, dass in Bezug auf...