Investment and land use decisions pre-determine the distribution of other farm resources and thus constitute core farm activities. Investments at the farm level often include sunk costs, risks, returns-to-scale, investment ...

The majority of rural Indian households remain dependent on traditional, inefficient and harmful household energy technologies. Rural households make their energy decisions with respect to the Water-Energy-Food security ...

Computational modelling for quantitative agricultural policy assessment in the EU employs more farm level oriented approaches in recent years. This follows policy instruments that increasingly target the farm level and ...

Consumer acceptance of novel technologies is a prerequisite for market adoption of the derived products. The transition towards a more sustainable bioeconomy in Europe requires product and process innovation that promotes ...

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related burden of disease is one of the most important aspects of human capital formation. As WASH is a system issue, it needs to be investigated with many other complementary factors ...

There is an increasing interest of acquiring farmland abroad, especially following the food price crisis in 2007/08. East Africa is a hotspot of activities, and given the high prevalence of poor people in the area, impacts ...

Between 2000 and 2012, 2.3m sq. kilometers of tree cover, equivalent to 6.4 times the size of Germany, were lost globally due to land cover change. Forest loss often comes with significant social and environmental costs. ...

The choice of which food to consume is often an individual choice. Yet, food and nutrition insecurity presents a situation that those who suffer from it have rarely chosen consciously. Availability of foods, their accessibility ...