By Larry Libby and Elena G. Irwin Introduction Farmland value reflects the economic returns from the various products and services available from that land. Buyers and sellers agree on a price that captures expected income from the relevant outputs. Among the farmland services are certain amenities, some of which the landowner may withhold from non-payers and others for which exclusion costs ar...

Sustainable agricultural practices in conjunction with ecological restoration methods can reduce the detrimental effects of agriculture. The Society for Ecological Restoration International has produced generic guidelines for conceiving, organizing, conducting and assessing ecological restoration projects. Additionally, there are now good conceptual frameworks, guidelines and practical methods ...

Modeling impacts of management alternatives on soil carbon storage of farmland in Northwest China F. Zhang, C. Li, Z. Wang, and H. Wu State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Xi’an, 710 075, PR China Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Science...

Farmland is an essential agricultural production factor that farmers can choose to either buy or rent. In this paper, we apply a discrete choice experiment analyse German farmers’ individual buying and rental decisions for farmland. Our results reveal have higher willingness than rent Covariates such as risk attitude affect the in while no effect was observable expectations about future farmlan...

This report describes the results of interviews and focus groups, gauging support for innovative farmland preservation techniques. Four techniques were selected for assessment from approximately 30 novel techniques identified in previous research: (1) Term conservation easements; (2) Land preservation tontines; (3) Rights of first refusal; and (4) Agricultural conservation pension with purchase...

Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing major changes in farm land ownership and use, which are both cause and consequence of the economic transformations that the region is now experiencing. The rapid rise of emergent investor farms in the 5 to 100 hectare category represents a revolutionary change in Africa’s farm structure since 2000. The rise of investor farmers is affecting the region in divers...

Tenure insecurity and thin land rental markets weakened the incentives to farmland investment in rural China, which was not conducive improving agricultural productivity. Thus, impacts of tenure security transfer on were analyzed by using household fixed effect model, IV method a 762 household-level 1163 plot-level data set. The results indicated that: (1) compared with owned plots, number farm...

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