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Sep 20, 2023 FORLand Preconference Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the GeWiSoLa 2023 in Göttingen: "Agricultural Land Markets between Financialization and Preservation". http://uni-goettingen.de/gewisola2023

1 Background and Objectives

Farmland has not only been an interesting investment for financial investors since the financial crisis of 2008. Agricultural land generates comparatively secure returns in the form of lease payments and promises high increases in value, or as a hedge against inflation. In addition, income from land investments is only weakly correlated with income from other capital market investments. In fact, the acquisition of agricultural land is not exclusively for production, but often represents a financial investment with the aim of generating capital income. In Germany, 34% of the transacted farmland purchased on average by non-agricultural buyers. The involvement of non-agricultural investors in land markets can be seen as part of a financialization process that permeates the agricultural sector.

Many stakeholders and politicians, however, are skeptical about this development. It is argued that active farmers are deprived of the production factor "land" and thus the development prospects of farms are impaired. If not protected and treated separately from real estate markets, agricultural land markets would probably not be able to prevent massive and regionally uncoordinated expansion of non-agricultural uses of land. Furthermore, unrestricted accumulation of land draws attention to the issue of local or regional market power, which undermines fair competition and the equitable distribution of rents among farmers and landowners. Finally, evaluating the process of land market financialization must take into account the ecological impacts: farmers operating on their own land may be more concerned about sustainable land use than farmers who use rental land. The fact, that in Germany the BVVG terminated their land privatization program via tendering procedures in favor of land leases to farms with sustainable land use practices can be considered as a response to these concerns.

The proposed workshop is motivated by the idea to disseminate results from a DFG research unit on Efficiency and Regulation of Agricultural Land Markets to a broader scientific community. During the workshop, selected results from this research unit will be presented and enhanced by contributions from a renowned invited speaker.

2 Topics

Presentations and discussions will be centered around five thematic foci:

Topic 1: Farmland Prices and the Land Market Microstructure

Land prices are usually analyzed without explicit reference to the institutional structures in which they are determined despite the high specificity of land making each transaction unique. We cover this gap and investigate the role of market microstructure, including trading mechanisms, market participants, their bargaining position, information and search cost, as well as market liquidity, in the price-formation process. Using rich data sets of land transactions from Eastern Germany reveals that the market microstructure, but also market regulations including tenant favoritism, may result in mark-ups or -downs depending on which market participant benefits from information and mechanism investments.

Topic 2: Behavioral Foundations of Land Market Analyses

Farmland prices and rental rates might not only be determined by economic factors, such as expected cash flows, interest rates, soil quality, or plot size. Individual attitudes, multiple goals in farmers decision-making and buyer heterogeneity on the farmland market are also assumed to play a role. Such factors have gained attention in the field of agricultural economics in recent years but comparable analyses for agricultural land markets rarely exist. In this regard, economic experiments have the potential to improve the understanding of agricultural land sale prices and rental rates as they can capture farmers’ and non-farmers’ individual preferences, investment alternatives, and sociodemographic characteristics that are not available in official statistics. By means of economic experiments, we investigate the decision behavior of individual farmers and potential nonagricultural farmland buyers and study when those actors buy, sell or lease farmland by considering institutional and economic farmland market conditions.

Topic 3: Concentration and Competition on Agricultural Land Markets

A major concern regarding land markets is that land ownership is concentrated in few hands, leading to an undesired agricultural structure with potential market power. Here we analyze ownership of all farmland of the federal state of Brandenburg using cadastral data and data on company networks. Our analysis provides an automated way to identify company networks and extract ownership concentration of farmland from cadasters, which enables detailed analyses of how farmland ownership impacts farmland markets and land use. We find high concentration of farmland in smaller spatial pockets where large companies and company networks possess substantial shares of land. We also find that public institutions own large shares of land in the regions with high concentration. We describe the different concentration measures for various owner groups and discuss implications for market power.

Topic 4: Land Markets, Structural Change, and Market Skepticism

Another cross-sectional topic that will be addressed in this workshop is the interplay between land markets and structural change in agriculture. When doing so, we seize on (mis)trust whether markets and structural change really lead to socially favorable outcomes. On the one hand, land markets and structural change determine the competitiveness of farms, their willingness to pay for land and thus land prices. On the other hand, the call for (tighter) regulations is often motivated by concerns about negative structural implications of land markets in terms of farm sizes, ownership distribution, land use, and land use intensity. Are these concerns motivated by rent-seeking or is there a deeper skepticism in the functions of markets and structural change? And how does the presence of highly successful and fast growing actors on the land markets affect neighboring farms, structural change and welfare indicators? 

Topic 5: Environmental Implications of Land Markets

Global farmland biodiversity has declined in the last decades due to homogenization of agricultural landscapes. Under this topic we discuss the trade-offs between biodiversity (i.e., farmland bird biodiversity and crop diversity) and agricultural economic performance. Trade-offs are analyzed at the farm- and landscape-level using econometric and multi-objective linear programming techniques. Our results indicate that, in Brandenburg, farmland bird biodiversity can be increased by reducing field sizes and increasing the proportion of woody features. This can be achieved without deteriorating overall potential agricultural net returns. In Austria, the effect of agrobiodiversity on farm labor productivity is moderated by climatic conditions. Diversified farms are more resilient to reductions in rainfall (productivity declines are less severe compared to specialized farms), but higher crop diversity comes at the cost of lower productivity levels when rainfall is abundant.

3 Workshop Structure, Presenters and Involved Scientists

The workshop will be organized as a half day event on Wednesday morning, September 20, 2023. It will consist of six oral presentations (each about 15-20 minutes) and subsequent discussions. Responsible organizers of the workshop are Martin Odening (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, contact person) and Silke Hüttel (University Göttingen).

Keynote:

Todd Kuethe (Purdue University, US): Trends in US Farmland Markets

Presentations from FORLand:

Topic 1:    Farmland price formation: a microstructural perspective
Stefan Seifert (presenter), Silke Hüttel, Lars Isenhardt, Daniel Müller, Alfons Balmann, Marten Graubner, Marlene Kionka, Jana Plogmann, Martin Odening, Matthias Ritter, Lorenz Schmidt

Topic 2:    Experimental analysis of agricultural stakeholders’ decision-making behavior on the farmland market
Luise Meißner (presenter), Oliver Mußhoff, Marlene Kionka, Martin Odening

Topic 3:    The Influence of Company Networks on Farmland Concentration       
Clemens Jänicke (presenter), Alfons Balmann, Daniel Müller

Topic 4:    Land Markets, Structural Change, and Market Skepticism
Franziska Appel (presenter), Alfons Balmann, Samuel Brea Martinez-Collado, Johanna Jauernig

Topic 5:    Environmental and economic trade-offs under land fragmentation and climatic conditions
Klaus Salhofer (presenter), Tobia Lakes, Daniel Müller, Andreas Eder, Heidrun Leonhardt, Maximilian Wesemeyer

4 Target Audience

The seminar intends to discuss and to analyze the state-of-the-art in research methods for economic analysis of farmland markets. The workshop offers a platform to exchange ideas and to generate an integrated view of farmland markets. As current topics of agricultural policy shall be addressed, the seminar is not only relevant for a scientific community but also for decision makers in politics and administration.

Aug 29 - Sep 01, 2023 FORLand @ EAAE

FORLand members present their research output at the 2023 EAAE Congress in Rennes, France:

  • Marlene Kionka, Todd Kuethe, Oliver Mußhoff, Matthias Ritter, Martin Odening: Experimental Evidence of Bargaining Power in the Agricultural Land Market.
  • Lorenz Schmidt, Martin Odening, Matthias Ritter: Heterogeneous Impacts of Non-Agricultural Investors on Farmland Prices.

23.-25.07. FORLand @ AAEA

FORLand members present their research output at the 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.

  • Marlene Kionka, Henning Bruckhorst, Todd Kuethe, Martin Odening: Pricing Derivatives in Agricultural Land Markets.

May 23, 2023 FORLand Policy brief: "Stellungnahme zum Entwurf des Gesetzes zum Erhalt und zur Verbesserung der brandenburgischen Agrarstruktur" by Franziska Appel, Alfons Balmann, Günther Filler, Clemens Jänicke, Martin Odening, Lorenz Schmidt has been released: http://dx.doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334725.

May 11-12, 2023 FORLand workshop “Causal Inference with Directed Acyclic Graphs” online

The FORLand research group is organizing a PhD-workshop on "Causal Inference with Directed Acyclic Graphs" on May 11th and 12th, 2023, from 9:00 to 12:30. The PhD-workshop will be led by Paul Hünermund, an Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School. All interested participants are welcome to attend the online event. The workship will cover a range of topics over two days. On day one, attendees can expect to learn about structural causal models, causal diagrams, D-separation, and testable implications. On day two, the workshop will focus on surrogate experiments, Z-identification, and instrumental variables. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore these concepts in depth and apply them through interactive exercises.

For more information, please see http://uni-goettingen.de/gewisola2023

Apr 20-21, 2023 FORLand Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Raum 144, Luisenstraße 56, 10115 Berlin

 

Thursday, 20.04.

09:00

Individual Meetings of Subprojects / PhD Meeting

12:00-13:00

Meet, Greet and Eat

13:00-15:00

Presentation of SP Reports: SP7, SP6, SP5

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-18:00

Presentation of SP Reports: SP4, SP3, SP2, SP1

19:00-

Dinner (self paying)
 

Friday, 21.04.

09:00-10:15

Discussion of GEWISOLA Pre-Conference Presentations

10:15-10:30

General Business

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Initiativen zur Agrarstrukturgesetzgebung in Deutschland

Andreas Tietz, Thünen-Institut (in German)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

After 13:30

Timeslot for Cooperation, Individual Subproject Meetings

Jan 26, 2023 FORLand Webinar

  • "Bargaining Power in the Land Rental Market" (Marlene Kionka (presenter), Matthias Ritter, Oliver Mußhoff, Todd Kuethe, Martin Odening)
  • "Eco-efficiency of Agricultural Landscapes – Insights from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany“ (Stefan Seifert (presenter), Saskia Wolff, Silke Hüttel).

Under AOB we can discuss the next FORLand Workshop in Berlin, the EAAE Organized Session in Rennes and the GeWiSoLa Preconference Workshop in Göttingen.

Heidi Leonhardt, Silke Hüttel, Tobia Lakes and Saskia Wolf received a Best Paper Award at the GeWiSoLa Annual Meeting 2022 in Hohenhein for their contribution "Applications of Land-use Data from the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) in Scientific Research: A Scoping Review Pilot Analysis". Congratulations!

FORLand member Jana Plogmann received a price for her PhD thesis “Three Essays on Agricultural Land Markets” at the 2022 annual meeting of the German Association of Agricultural Economists (GeWiSoLa) in Hohenheim. We congratulate her on the outstanding contribution to the understanding of agricultural land markets.

FORLand members present their research output at the 2022 AAEA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA:

  • Organized Symposium
    Agricultural Land Markets – Competition, Concentration, Market Power
  • Selected Papers
    • Marlene Kionka, Oliver Mußhoff, Matthias Ritter, Todd Kuethe, Martin Odening: Bargaining Power in the Agricultural Land Rental Market

    • Plogmann, J., Mußhoff, O., Odening, M., Ritter, M.: Farmland sales under return and price uncertainty

June 22-24, 2022 Contributed Papers of FORLand Members at the 9th EAAE PhD Workshop in Parma, Italy:

  • "Explaining the farmland price surge in Brandenburg: A decomposition analysis" by Tim Finn Hainbach, Silke Hüttel, and Axel Werwatz (SP4).
  • "A small area approach to estimate and interpolate farmland values on community level" by Luise Meissner, Cord-Friedrich von Hobe, and Oliver Musshoff (SP1)
  • "Renewable Energy Policy and Farmland Markets – The German Perspective" by Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, and Silke Hüttel (SP4, SP6, SP7).

May 30, 2022 Collaborative Research Grant “Supporting Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes in the EU and U.S.” by Halle Institute for Global Research and The Halle Foundation at Emory University, U.S.

Tobia Lakes (SP7), Saskia Wolff (SP7), Silke Hüttel (SP4) and Emily Burchfield (Emory University, U.S.) were successfully granted a collaborative effort on intentional support of a transition towards more sustainable, resilient agricultural systems by the Halle Institute for Global Research, targeted to support exchange between Emory and Germany-based researchers. The team aims at sharing and advancing collaborative work in (1) defining, measuring, and monitoring current agricultural landscapes, (2) identifying major forces that transform agricultural landscapes and (3) describing viable transition pathways towards sustainable, resilient, and just agricultural futures. The first of three workshops took place from 30th May to 2nd June 2022 at Göttingen University with contributions from Stefan Seifert (SP4), Heidrun Leonhardt (SP5) and Max Wesemeyer (SP7).

on April 28-29, 2022 the FORLand Seminar took place at HU Berlin Geography in Adlershof

Thursday, 28.04.

Seminar program

11:30-12:30

Eat, greet and meet

12:30-14:30

Presentation of SP Reports (SP7-SP4)

14:30-15:00

Coffee Break

15:00-17:00

Presentation of SP Reports (SP3-SP1, Coordination)

17:00-18:00

PhD meeting / optional time slot for cooperation

18:00

Joint Dinner

Freitag 29.04.

 

09:00-10:30

FOR XXX

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

FORland II: Final report; ideas for final workshop; data documentation; extension of funding period (cost neutral)

12:30-13:00

Quick Lunch

13:00 -14:00

Optional time slot for cooperation

On Dez 13, 2021 the successful defense of her phd thesis "3 Essays on land markets..." by FORLand member Jana Maria Plogmann took place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Congratulations!

Matthias Ritter (SP2) received an appointment from Jönköping University, Sweden. He joined the Jönköping International Business School on November 1, 2021 (https://ju.se/en/personinfo.html?sign=ritmat).

On Oct 28-29, 2021 the FORLand Meeting took place at IAMO Halle.

Thursday 28.10.

FORLand II

12:00-13:00

Eat, greet and meet

13:00-15:00

Presentation of SP Reports (SP1-SP4)

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-17:30

Presentation of SP Reports (SP5-SP7, coordination)

17:45-xx

PhD meeting / meeting IACS group

 

Joint Dinner

 

 

Friday 29.10.

FOR-XX

08:30-10:30

Discussion of Research Ideas with Input from SPs (Part 1)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Discussion of Research Ideas with Input from SPs (Part 2)

12:30-13:00

Quick Lunch

13:00-14:00

Meeting IACS group cont. / optional time slot for cooperation

Sep 24, 2021 Best Paper Awards for FORLand members at GEWISOLA Annual Conference

We are very happy that two papers by FORLand members received the Best Paper Award at the 61. Gewisola Annual Conference:

  • "On the price effect of a right of first refusal in farmland auctions" by Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, and Silke Hüttel.
    This article is an outcome of FORLand Subproject 4.
  • "Measuring Liquidity in Agricultural Land Markets" by Marlene Kionka, Martin Odening, Jana Plogmann, and Matthias Ritter.
    This article is an outcome of FORLand Subproject 2 and has recently appeared in Agricultural Finance Review:
    https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-03-2021-0037.
    An earlier version is available as FORLand Working paper 25(2020) here:
    https://doi.org/10.18452/22244.

Congratulations!

Aug 17, 2021 Awards for FORLand members at XVI EAAE Congress

Great news from the XVI EAAE Congress: Henning Schaak and Oliver Mußhoff received an honorary mention for their contributed paper "A Geoadditive Distributional Regression Analysis Of The Local Relationship Of Land Prices And Land Rents In Germany." Moreover, the poster "Combining the Best of Two Methodological Worlds? Integrating Q methodology-based Farmer Archetypes in a Model of Agri-Environmental Scheme Uptake." by Heidi Leonhardt, Michael Braito, and Reinhard Uehleke won the Best Poster Award. Congratulations!

Their papers can be found here:
- Schaak, Mußhoff, FORLand Working Paper 20-2020: https://doi.org/10.18452/21043.
- Leonhardt, Braito, Uehleke, Agricultural and Human Values: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10242-w.

Jul 15, 2021 FORLand Webinar

The next FORLand Webinar takes place on July 15, 2021, at 2:00 pm with the following presentations:

  • Stefan Seifert (SP4): "Common values and unobserved heterogeneity in farmland auctions in Germany"
  • Luise Meißner (SP1): "Does the German land transaction law generate utility? An analytical framework for the case of non-agricultural investors"

May 28, 2021 Workshop on Invekos/IACS data

On May 28, 2021, the DFG-FORLand workshop "Herausforderungen und Potentiale von umweltbezogenen Raumanalysen mit Invekos Daten" will take place online, organized by Heidi Leonhardt (SP5) and Tobia Lakes (SP7). More details and the call for abstracts (deadline: 25.4.) can be found here.

Apr 15, 2021 FORLand Kickoff Meeting

The FORLand Kickoff Meeting takes place online on April 15, 2021, at 2:00 pm with the following presentations:

  • Johanna Jauernig (SP3): "Understanding Market Moralism - An Experimental Inquiry of the Role of Power Perception"
  • Florian Heinrich (SP6): "Adaptation of an intensive livestock production region to AgriPoliS"

After the scientific part, we will continue at 4:00 pm with a status quo report of all subprojects and a discussion of joint activities.

Jan 28, 2021 FORLand Webinar

The third FORLand Webinar takes place on January 28, 2021, at 2:00 pm with the following presentations:

  • Tim Hainbach, Silke Hüttel, Axel Werwatz (SP4): "The Brandenburg farmland
    price boom - A decomposition analysis"

  • Clemens Jaenicke (SP7): "Field-level land-use data reveal heterogeneous
    crop sequences with distinct regional differences in Germany".

Jan, 19, 2021 New working paper: "Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach"

The FORLand-Working Paper "Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach" by Andreas Eder is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/22358.

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Jan 14, 2021 ERAE Special Issue: "Agricultural land markets – recent developments, efficiency and regulation"

The European Review of Agricultural Economics (ERAE) has now published a special issue on "Agricultural land markets - recent developments, efficiency and regulation", edited by FORLand members Martin Odening and Silke Hüttel:

https://academic.oup.com/erae/issue/48/1

This special issue includes the main contributions from the 165th European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) seminar held in Berlin in April, 2019:

Dec 30, 2020 FORLand Policy brief: "Agrarstrukturgesetzentwurf Sachsen-Anhalt: Faktencheck und Einordnung"

The third FORLand policy brief: "Agrarstrukturgesetzentwurf Sachsen-Anhalt: Faktencheck und Einordnung" by Alfons Balmann has been released: http://dx.doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.308576.

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Dec 17, 2020 First technical paper: "Digitale Karte der Bodenwertzahlen für Brandenburg"

The first technical paper "Digitale Karte der Bodenwertzahlen für Brandenburg" by Tillman Schmitz and Daniel Müller is now online:

https://www.forland.hu-berlin.de/publications/tp2020-1

Dec 15, 2020 New working paper: "Measuring Liquidity in Agricultural Land Markets"

The FORLand-Working Paper "Measuring Liquidity in Agricultural Land Markets" by Marlene Kionka, Martin Odening, Jana Plogmann, and Matthias Ritter is now online: http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22244.

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Oct 29, 2020 FORLand Webinar

The second FORLand Webinar takes place on October 29, 2020, at 2:00 pm.

Program:

14:00 Welcome  
14:05-14:50 How thin are agricultural land markets? (SP2) Marlene Kionka
14:55-15:40 Who participates in AES? Combining Q methodology, survey, and FADN data to investigate farming styles and AES uptake (SP5) Heidrun Leonhardt
15:45-16:00 Any other business  

Sep 25, 2020 GEWISOLA Best Paper Award and Best Presentation Award for FORLand members

Great news from the 60th GEWISOLA Annual Conference 2020: The contributed paper "Farm Growth and Land Concentration" by Jana Plogmann, Oliver Mußhoff, Martin Odening, and Matthias Ritter received the Best Paper Award 2020. Moreover, Matthias Ritter got the Best Presentation Award 2020 for presenting this paper. Congratulations!

The full paper can be found as FORLand Working Paper 24/2020 here: http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/21399.

Jul 16, 2020 FORLand Webinar

The first FORLand Webinar takes place on July 16, 2020, at 2:00 pm.

Program:

14:00 Welcome  
14:05-14:50 On the effectiveness of restricted tendering as a form of policy intervention on agricultural land markets (SP1) Cord-Friedrich v. Hobe
14:55-15:40 Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a material balance approach (SP5) Andreas Eder
15:45-16:00 Any other business  

Jun 26, 2020 Virtual Female Expert Talk by Dr. Emily Burchfield (video online)

The video of the talk can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qbEkD6eQtI

The joint event of FORLand and PhenoRob will host a talk by Emily Burchfield, Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Studies at Emory University, on “Cultivating Food Security in a Changing World”.

Dr. Burchfield will explore the interactions between agriculturally-driven land use change, climate change, and agricultural production in the United States. Her research integrates “big” geospatial datasets with “deep” qualitative data to understand agroecological system dynamics at multiple scales.

The event will take place virtually on Zoom on June 26, 2020, at 10 am. Please find more details here: http://www.phenorob.de/talk-series-emily-burchfield/.

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May 25, 2020 New working paper: "Farm Growth and Land Concentration"

The FORLand-Working Paper "Farm Growth and Land Concentration" by Jana Plogmann, Oliver Mußhoff, Martin Odening, and Matthias Ritter is now online: http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/21399.

Feb 21, 2020 Ukrainian-German Workshop "Structural Change and Land Markets"

On February 21, 2020, the Ukrainian-German workshop "Structural Change and Land Markets" takes place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13, Haus 12, Lecture Hall 3.

09:00-09:10 Welcome of participants Martin Odening (HU Berlin)
09:10-10:10
  • Structural Change in German Agriculture
  • Discussion
 Günther Filler (HU Berlin)
10:10-11:00
  • Trends on the Ukrainian land market and current state of land market reforms
  • Discussion
 Alex Lissitsa
11:00-11:30 Coffee break  
11:30-12:30
  • Agricultural land market in Germany - Recent developments and drivers
  • Discussion
  • Closing remarks
 Martin Odening (HU Berlin)

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Jan 30, 2020 FORLand Seminar in Göttingen

The next FORLand workshop takes place in Göttingen on January 30, 2020.

Jan 14, 2020 New working paper: "A geoadditive distributional regression analysis of the local relationship of land prices and land rents in Germany"

The new FORLand Working Paper 20/2020 "A geoadditive distributional regression analysis of the local relationship of land prices and land rents in Germany" by Henning Schaak and Oliver Mußhoffis now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/21043.

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Jan 13, 2020 Two new working papers: "An experimental analysis of German farmers’ decisions to buy or rent farmland" and "How useful is listings data for research?"

The new FORLand Working Paper 18/2020 "An experimental analysis of German farmers’ decisions to buy or rent farmland" by Matthias Buchholz, Michael Danne, and Oliver Musshoff is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/21037.

Moreover, the new FORLand Working Paper 19/2020 "How useful is listings data for research?" by Jens Kolbe, Rainer Schulz, Martin Wersing, and Axel Werwatz is available here: https://doi.org/10.18452/21038.

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Jan 09, 2020 New working paper: "How green is greening? A fine-scale analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics in Germany"

The new FORLand Working Paper 17/2020 "How green is greening? A fine-scale analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics in Germany" by Tobia Lakes, Jaime Garcia-Marquez, Daniel Müller, Sebastian Lakner, and Guy Pe’er is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/21031.

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Dec 20, 2019 New working paper: "Maizification of the Landscape for Biogas Production?"

The new FORLand Working Paper 16/2019 "Maizification of the Landscape for Biogas Production?" by Felipe Vergara and Tobia Lakes is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/20977.

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Dec 16, 2019 Two new working papers: "Why do farmers care about rented land?" and "The Plurality of Farmers’ Views on Soil Management Calls for a Policy Mix"

The new FORLand Working Paper 14/2019 "Why do farmers care about rented land" by Heidi Leonhardt, Michael Braito, and Marianne Penker is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/20941.

Moreover, the new FORLand Working Paper 15/2019 "The Plurality of Farmers’ Views on Soil Management Calls for a Policy Mix" by Michael Braito, Heidi Leonhardt, Marianne Penker, Elisabeth Schauppenlehner-Kloyber, Georg Thaler, and Courtney G. Flint is available here: https://doi.org/10.18452/20946.

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Dec 10, 2019 New working paper: "The potential for industrial activity among EU regions"

The new FORLand Working Paper 13/2019 "The potential for industrial activity among EU regions" by Martin Gornig and Axel Werwatz is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/20909.

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Dec 09, 2019 New working paper: "Can Land Market Regulations fulfill their Promises?"

The new FORLand Working Paper 12/2019 "Can Land Market Regulations fulfill their Promises?" by Florian Heinrich, Franziska Appel, and Alfons Balmann is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/20890.

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Nov 05, 2019 FORLand-Metadatabase online with information on land-related data

The FORLand-Metadatabase is now online. It provides an overview of available datasets related to land markets, the included variables, the spatial and temporal coverage, and their accessibility:

https://www.forland.hu-berlin.de/publications/#Metadatabase

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Oct 29, 2019 New working paper: "Price dispersion in farmland markets: What is the role of asymmetric information?"

The new FORLand Working Paper 11/2019 "Price dispersion in farmland markets: What is the role of asymmetric information?" by Christoph Kahle, Stefan Seifert, and Silke Hüttel is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/20661.

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Oct 24, 2019 FORLand Seminar in Vienna

The next FORLand workshop takes place in Vienna on October 24, 2019.

Sep 25, 2019 Pre-conference workshop on land markets at GEWISOLA 2019

Silke Hüttel (FORLand) and Andreas Tietz (Thünen-Institut) organize a pre-conference workshop at GEWISOLA 2019 on the topic "Bodenmärkte und Grundbesitz im Wandel: Brauchen wir eine andere Regulierung?".

Details can be found here, the flyer is available here.

Jul 19, 2019 New working paper: "Farm eco-efficiency: can sustainable intensification make the difference?"

The new FORLand Working Paper 10/2019 "Farm eco-efficiency: can sustainable intensification make the difference" by Meike Weltin and Silke Hüttel is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/20221.

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Jun 28/29, 2019 FORLand Workshop in Halle/Saale

The next FORLand workshop takes place in Halle/Saale on June 28/29, 2019.

Jun 20, 2019 New working paper: "The Impact of Production Intensity on Agricultural Land Prices"

The new FORLand Working Paper 09/2019 "The Impact of Production Intensity on Agricultural Land Prices" by Aaron Grau, Svetlana Jasic, Matthias Ritter, and Martin Odening is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/20103.

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Apr 17, 2019 New working paper: "Revisiting the relationship between land price and parcel size "

The new FORLand working paper 08/2019 "Revisiting the relationship between land price and parcel size" by Matthias Ritter, Silke Hüttel, Martin Odening, and Stefan Seifert is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/19877.

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Apr 04/05, 2019 165. EAAE Seminar "Agricultural Land Markets" in Berlin

On April 4/5, 2019, the 165. EAAE Seminar "Agricultural Land Markets" took place in Berlin, organized by FORLand. More details can be found here:

http://www.eaae165.hu-berlin.de

The current program is provided here.

We thank all participants and organizers for their contribution!

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Feb 07, 2019 New working paper: "Land value appraisal using statistical methods"

The new FORLand working paper 07/2019 "Land value appraisal using statistical methods" by Jens Kolbe, Rainer Schulz, Martin Wersing, and Axel Werwatz is now online: https://doi.org/10.18452/19722.

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Jan 31, 2019 FORLand Seminar in Bonn
The next FORLand seminar takes place in Bonn on Jan 31, 2019.
Program:

10.00-10.30 Arrival of participants  
10.30-12.30

Talk SP 3
Theorizing Agriculture-society Tensions: An Ordonomic Approach to the Agrarian Vision

Talk SP 4
Price dispersion in thin farmland markets - What is the role of asymmetric information?


Johanna Jauernig, Vladislav Valentinov


Christoph Kahle, Stefan Seifert, Silke Hüttel
12.30-13.30 Lunch  
13.30-15.15 FORLand knowledge integration: policy implications Michael Braito, Silke Hüttel
15.15-15.30 Coffee break  
15.30-16.00 Organization and FORLand activities:
  • EAAE Seminar update
  • Gewisola pre-conference workshop
  • Next meeting in Halle: aims and scope, agenda
 Martin Odening, Silke Hüttel

Nov 23, 2018 Policy brief: "Pacht und Bodenschutz: Ein Widerspruch?"
The second FORLand policy brief: "Pacht und Bodenschutz: Ein Widerspruch?" by Heidi Leonhardt, Marianne Penker und Klaus Salhofer has been released: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/280330.

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Nov 22, 2018 New working paper: "Do Farmers Care About Rented Land? A Multi-Method Study on Land Tenure and Soil Conservation"
The new FORLand working paper 06/2018 is now online: Leonhardt, H., Salhofer, K., Penker, M. (2018): Do Farmers Care About Rented Land? A Multi-Method Study on Land Tenure and Soil Conservation. FORLand-Working Paper 06(2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/19580 as well as SCI-publication: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837718311542.

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Nov 04, 2018 Submission deadline EAAE Seminar 2019 in Berlin
Please submit your abstract (about 2 pages) for the 165th EAAE Seminar 2019 "Agricultural Land Markets" until November 04, 2018. More information at: http://www.eaae165.hu-berlin.de.

Oct 31, 2018 New working paper: "What Moves the German Land Market? A Decomposition of the Land Rent-Price Ratio"
The new FORLand working paper 05/2018 "What Moves the German Land Market? A Decomposition of the Land Rent-Price Ratio" by Jana Plogmann, Oliver Mußhoff, Martin Odening, and Matthias Ritter is now online: http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/19486.2.

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Oct 25, 2018 FORLand Seminar in Göttingen
The next FORLand seminar takes place in Göttingen on Oct 25, 2018.
Program:

10:30-11:15

Talk SP 1:
"The effect of soil quality on land prices and rents: Available data, conceptual issues and first results"
Henning Schaak
11:15-12:00

Talk SP 2/SP 4:
"The farmland size-price-relationship revisited"


Matthias Ritter
Stefan Seifert
12:00-13:00 Lunch  
13:00-13:45

Talk SP 5:
"Typologizing farmers to better understand soil management practices"


Heidi Leonhardt
Michael Braito
13:45-14:30

Talk SP 6:
"Predator or prey? - Effects of fast growing farms on spatial competition and performance"
Franziska Appel
14:30-14:45

Short talk SP 7:
"Approach to scenario building and presentation of a first questionnaire"
Jaime R. García Márquez
14:45-15:00 Coffee break  
15:00-15:30 Any other FORLand business  
15:30- X Individual discussions  

Oct 19, 2018 New working paper: "Public preferences for pasture landscapes and the role of scale heterogeneity"
The new FORLand working paper 04/2018 "Public preferences for pasture landscapes and the role of scale heterogeneity" by Henning Schaak and Oliver Mußhoff is now online:
http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/19478.

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Oct 01, 2018 Policy brief: "Müssen landwirtschaftliche Bodenmärkte vor Investoren geschützt werden? Eine ökonomische Perspektive"
The first FORLand policy brief: "Müssen landwirtschaftliche Bodenmärkte vor Investoren geschützt werden? Eine ökonomische Perspektive" by Martin Odening and Silke Hüttel has been released: Agra-Europe 1.Oktober 2018 - Nr. 40 Länderberichte/Sonderbeilage/Deutschland S. 1-6 and https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276288.

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Sep 20/21, 2018 Female Expert Talk by Dr. Irina Murtazashvili in Bonn
On September 20-21, 2018, Dr. Irina Murtazashvili gives a Female Expert Talk @TBGS on "The Control Function Approach to Endogeneity" in Bonn. More information and registration here.

Sep 01, 2018 New policy brief: "Müssen landwirtschaftliche Bodenmärkte vor Investoren geschützt werden? Eine ökonomische Perspektive"
The first FORLand policy brief: "Müssen landwirtschaftliche Bodenmärkte vor Investoren geschützt werden? Eine ökonomische Perspektive" by Martin Odening and Silke Hüttel is now online:
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276288.

Aug 30/31, 2018 Eco-Efficiency Workshop in Vienna organized by FORLand members
Silke Hüttel and Klaus Salhofer organize an Eco-Efficiency Workshop at BOKU Vienna on August 30-31, 2018.
Program:

Thursday, 30.08.2018
13:00-13:30 Get-to-know-each-other  
13:30-14:30 Eco-economic-efficiency analysis and the household model Eva Bauer
14:30-15:00 Data & Possibilities Heidi Leonhardt
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break  
15:30-16:00 Farm eco-efficiency: can sustainable intensification measures make a difference? Meike Weltin
19:00 Dinner  

Friday, 31.08.2018
09:00-10:00 Herbicide-use efficiency in maize production Reinhard Uehleke
10:00-11:00 Markup and advertising in the German brewing sector Simon Pröll
11:00-12:00 Discussion / Bilateral exchanges  
13:00 Lunch  

 

Jul 05/06, 2018: FORLand Workshop in Vienna
On July 05-06, 2018, a FORLand Workshop takes place in Vienna.
Program:

Thursday, 05.07.2018
09:00-10:00 Arrival, Get-to-know-each-other  
10:00-10:30 Coffee break  
10:30-11:30

SP 1:
First ideas for an economic experiment to analyze the dynamics of rental rates and prices of farmland


Michael Danne
11:30-12:30

SP 4:
An empirical analysis of urban pressure on farmland values in Brandenburg


Axel Werwatz, Jens Kolbe
12:30-14:00 Lunch  
14:00-15:00

SP 7:
Towards scenarios of land price and agricultural land use in Brandenburg


Jaime García-Márquez
15:00-16:00

Invited talk:
Soil conservation measures in arable land tenancy agreements


Katrin Daedlow
16:00-16:30 Coffee break  
16:30-17:15

SP 2:
What moves the German land market? A variance decomposition of the rent-price ratio


Matthias Ritter, Martin Odening
20:00 Dinner  

 

Friday, 06.07.18
09:00-10:00

Bilateral talks of cooperating SPs
Agent-based modelling in agricultural and resource economics


Franziska Appel
10:00-10:30 Coffee break  
10:30-12:30

All SPs
All subprojects present 10 minutes of thoughts, ideas and wishes for follow-up proposal


Moderation: Martin Odening
12:30-14:00 Lunch  
14:00-15:00 Any other FORLand business  

 

Jul 02, 2018 New working paper: "Land price diffusion across borders: The case of Germany"
The new FORLand working paper 03/2018 "Land price diffusion across borders: The case of Germany" by Aaron Grau, Martin Odening, and Matthias Ritter is now online:
http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/19263.

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Jun 13, 2018 Project award for SP2 by Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
Subproject 2 "Market integration and border effects in agricultural land markets" has been awarded by Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.

Apr 26, 2018 FORLand Seminar in Halle/Saale
On April 26, 2018, a FORLand Seminar takes place in Halle/Saale.
Program:

09:30-10:10 Welcome of participants and coffee break  
10:10-11:00 Czech sources of landscape data

Jakub Kučera, Edita Turková
11:00-12:00

SP 7:
Project progress and initial descriptive analysis of the IACS and land purchase data


Luise Liehn, Jaime García-Márquez, Blake Walker, Daniel Müller
12:00-12:45 Lunch  
12:45-13:45

SP 5:
The effects of non-agricultural investors in the biogas production on structural change and the land market


Heidi Leonhardt, Michael Braito
13:45-14:45

SP 6:
The effects of non-agricultural investors in the biogas production on structural change and the land market


Florian Heinrich, Franziska Appel, Alfons Balmann, Marten Graubner
14:45-15:15 Coffee break  
15:15-16:00 Any other FORLand business Silke Hüttel, Martin Odening
16:00- x Individual discussions  

Mar 22, 2018 New working paper: "Farmland Values and Bidder Behavior in First-Price Land Auctions"
The new FORLand working paper 02/2018: "Farmland Values and Bidder Behavior in First-Price Land Auctions" by Carsten Croonenbroeck, Martin Odening, and Silke Hüttel is now online: http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18966.

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Jan 25, 2018 FORLand Seminar in Bonn
On January 25, 2018, a FORLand Seminar takes place in Bonn.
Program:

10:00-10:30 Arrival of participants  
10:30-12-30

SP 3

Invited Talk:
Forschungsarbeiten zum landwirtschaftlichen Bodenmarkt am Thünen-Institut

 

Johanna Jauernig, Vladislav Valentinov

Andreas Tietz, Lutz Laschewski

 
12:30-13:30 Lunch  
13:30-16:00

SP 2:
Land price diffusion across former borders: the case of Germany

SP 2, SP 4:
Farmland values, bidder behavior and land auctions: a structural empirical analysis

SP 4, SP 6:
Talk on potential collaboration on auction data

Any other FORland business


Aaron Grau, Martin Odening, Matthias Ritter

Carsten Croonenbroeck, Martin Odening, Silke Hüttel

Stefan Seifert, Alfons Balmann, Silke Hüttel

Martin Odening, Silke Hüttel

Jan 17, 2018 New working paper: "The Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of Agricultural Land Prices"
The first FORLand working paper 01/2018 "The Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of Agricultural Land Prices" by Xinyue Yang, Martin Odening, and Matthias Ritter is now online: http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18720.

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Oct 26-27, 2017 Kick Off Workshop in Berlin
On October 26-27, 2017, the FORLand Kick Off Workshop takes place in Berlin.
Program:

Thursday, 26.10.2017
10:30-11:00 Arrival of participants  
11:00-13:00

Welcome:

  • Discussion of the outcome of the review process
  • Report on general activities
  • Discussion of Milestones for the first funding period; Experiences from SIAG

 

Martin Odening, Silke Hüttel
13:00-14:00 Lunch  
14:00-15:30

SP 1, SP 2:
Activity report of subprojects und discussion


Oliver Mußhoff
Matthias Ritter, Aaron Grau, Martin Odening
15:30-16:00 Coffee break  
16:00-17:30

SP 3, SP 4:
Activity report of subprojects und discussion


Vladislav Valentinov, Lioudmila Chatalova
Silke Hüttel, Axel Werwart, Jens Kolbe
18:30 Dinner  

 

Friday, 27.10.2017
09:00-10:30

SP 5, SP 6:
Activity report of subprojects und discussion


Martin Penker, Michael Braito, Klaus Salhofer, Else Leonhardt
Alfons Balmann, Franziska Appel
10:30-11:00 Coffee break  
11:00-12:30

SP 7:
Activity report of subprojects and discussion
Cooperation with UZEI and other external partners
Data issues


Tobias Lakes, Daniel Müller, Florian Gollnow
Ladislav Jelínek, Tomáš Medonos, Jarmila Curtiss
Silke Hüttel
12:30-13:00 Lunch  
13:30-15:00
  • Specification of deliverables
  • Identification of joint papers
  • Content of upcoming FORLand seminars
  • Female expert talk
  • Tasks and timeline