scholarly journals Romanian post-communist agriculture – structural dynamics and challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 73-102
Author(s):  
Ioan Ianoş ◽  
George Secăreanu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Dynamics ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Land Prices ◽  
Agricultural Transition ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Privatisation Process ◽  
Current Characteristics ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Irrigation Infrastructure

This paper represents an overview on the structural dynamics of Romanian agriculture, and the challenges faced. Describing the main changes over the last three decades, the analysis here should facilitate understanding of how communist-era agriculture of a centralised state might be transformed into something able to operate efficiently under free-market conditions. The specifics of Romania’s agricultural transition connect closely with certain preconditions, among them in particular the high proportion of the national population that is still rural. A privatisation process set in rapidly post-1989, as the old State Farms were dissolved over just two years. The role this economic branch played in the generation of GDP decreased, in a manner suggesting the former level will not be re-achieved, but farmers have worked to improve their basic infrastructure. The main obstacle would now seem to be the excessive fragmentation of agricultural land and the only-slow process of consolidation. Current characteristics of structural dynamics are visible in trends towards specialisation in farming, livestock restructuring, the slow (re-) development of irrigation infrastructure, increased land prices and more typical processes of a “land grab” profile. In this connection, the paper identifies 9 challenges Romanian agriculture faces, presenting these synthetically to ensure a clarification of objectives, with a view to greater upgrading of the country’s huge potential being achieved.

“Community Interests” and the Role of International Law in the Creation of a Global Market for Agricultural Land

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen von Bernstorff
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Large Scale Land ◽  
The One

The chapter explores the notion of “community interests” with regard to the global “land-grab” phenomenon. Over the last decade, a dramatic increase of foreign investment in agricultural land could be observed. Bilateral investment treaties protect around 75 per cent of these large-scale land acquisitions, many of which came with associated social problems, such as displaced local populations and negative consequences for food security in Third World countries receiving these large-scale foreign investments. Hence, two potentially conflicting areas of international law are relevant in this context: Economic, social, and cultural rights and the principles of permanent sovereignty over natural resources and “food sovereignty” challenging large-scale investments on the one hand, and specific norms of international economic law stabilizing them on the other. The contribution discusses the usefulness of the concept of “community interests” in cases where the two colliding sets of norms are both considered to protect such interests.

scholarly journals Análise dos Fatores que Influenciaram na Modernização e na Expansão da Agropecuária no Estado de Goiás

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Batista Alves
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Structure Modification ◽  
Land Price ◽  
Land Prices ◽  
Technology Standard ◽  
Technological Standard ◽  
Standard Structure ◽  
The Relationship

A proposta básica deste trabalho é tentar compreender como se dá a expansão de fronteiras no estado de Goiás verificando as relações entre o preço da terra e as variáveis de padrão tecnológico - terras irrigadas, número de tratores, investimentos, dentre outras. Realizou-se uma análise das correlações entre as variáveis preço da terra de pastagem e agrícola e as variáveis que compõem o nível de padrão tecnológico, chegando-se à conclusão de que a variação nos preços da terra não está associada à modificação da estrutura do nível de padrão tecnológico em função do baixo coeficiente de correlação encontrado. Isso pode ter ocorrido, talvez, por uma forte especulação de terras no território, pois a antiga região de fronteira foi se tornando saturada impedindo novas ocupações ou assentamentos. Palavras-chaves: Frente de expansão, frente pioneira, renda diferencial, padrão tecnológico, coeficiente de correlação.Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to try to understand as how occurs the borders expansion in the state of Goiás showing the relationship between land price and the variables of technological standard, as irrigated lands, tractors number and investments among others. It has been done an analysis of correlations among variables as cattle and agricultural land price and composing variables of the level of technological standard, structure modification of technology standard, as function of low coefficient of found correlation. It could occurred, maybe, by a strong speculation of land prices in this area, as the ancient border region was been saturated obstructing new occupations and settlements. Key Words: Expansion front, pioneer front, differential income, technological standard, correlation coefficient.

scholarly journals Official agricultural land price in the Slovak Republic

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 184-188
Author(s):  
K. Bradáčová
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Income Effect ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Land Price ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Land Prices ◽  
Land Site

As long as the land market in Slovakia is not completely developed and land market prices introduced, the officially assigned land prices are practically in use. At the present time, land prices should express the supply prices, which cover the income effect of the land site under the socially necessary costs. In this situation, for the temporary period, centrally assigned fixed land prices could represent the effective supply and demand prices in case they correspond to the mentioned conditions. At present, the official prices are used for fiscal purposes and the land property rights.

scholarly journals Does Climatic Variability Influence Agricultural Land Prices under Differing Uses? The Texas High Plains Case

2013 ◽  
Vol 04 (08) ◽  
pp. 506-513
Author(s):  
Rachna Tewari ◽  
Jeff Johnson ◽  
Darren Hudson ◽  
Chenggang Wang ◽  
Dennis Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
High Plains ◽  
Land Prices ◽  
Texas High Plains ◽  
Agricultural Land Prices

scholarly journals CONDITIONS OF AGRICULTURAL LAND PRICES DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND

AGROFOR ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata MARKS-BIELSKA
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
State Institution ◽  
The State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Land Prices ◽  
Agricultural Land Prices

The aim of the paper has been to diagnose factors determining agricultural landprices, classifying them and determining which of them plays the most importantrole. The considerations were based on selected subject literature, the results ofresearches conducted by other authors, as well as analysis of statistical data from theCentral Statistical Office of Poland and Eurostat. Factors determining agriculturalland prices in Poland can be divided into two groups: 2) Market: supply and demandfor agricultural land allotted to agricultural production; supply and demand foragricultural land that can be, in compliance with the binding law, allotted to purposesother than agricultural; simultaneous functioning of two market segments - private(on which a majority of land trading is conducted among farmers) as well as the statemarket segment – the Stock of Agricultural Property of the State Treasury managed,on behalf of the owner - the State Treasury, by the state institution - the AgriculturalProperty Agency; profitability of agricultural production. 2) Non-market: historicalconditions – dominance of private property in Polish agriculture, both in the marketeconomy and in the previous economic system; tradition, culture - passing farmsfrom generation to generation; Poland’s accession to the European Union andcovering Polish farmers with common agricultural policy instruments; ending thetransitional period of purchasing Polish agricultural properties by foreigners on 1May 2016. After this period, the hitherto limitations (special permits) for foreignersin purchasing agricultural properties in Poland were lifted.

scholarly journals Agricultural Land Price Convergence: Evidence from Polish Provinces

Agriculture ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Tomal ◽  
Agata Gumieniak
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Price Convergence ◽  
Present Value ◽  
Land Price ◽  
Land Prices ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Agricultural Land Prices

This research deals with the problem of agricultural land market efficiency using the spatial market integration concept as well as the present value (PV) model. Empirically, it aims to test the convergence of agricultural land prices across Polish provinces. In order to check the law of one price (LOP), good-quality, medium-quality and bad-quality land sales markets are examined separately. Furthermore, this study is complemented by an analysis of the drivers behind agricultural land price convergence. The main method of testing price convergence is the log t regression. The latter was performed in two configurations, i.e., based on trend components of time series extracted using the Hodrick–Prescott filter and the Hamilton filter. Additionally, traditional β- and σ-convergence tests were applied. The obtained results indicated that agricultural land prices tend to converge in relative terms, which means that the provinces share a common long-run growth path. This finding and estimates of traditional convergence tests prove the increasing integration in the agricultural land market in Poland. There is no evidence, however, to support the conclusion that the absolute version of the long-run LOP holds. Moreover, using dynamic fixed effects models, it was identified that for good-, medium- and bad-quality land prices almost the same drivers of convergence apply. The only differences concern the strength of the influence of independent variables on prices of farmland of various types. Additionally, bad-quality land prices are the only ones which are affected by livestock density. Furthermore, estimates of the present value model finally confirmed that the agricultural land sales market in Poland cannot be considered as efficient.

A hedonic analysis of agricultural land prices in Pakistan`s Peshawar district

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Salman Khan ◽  
Ghaffar Ali ◽  
Syed Attaullah Shah ◽  
Abbas Ullah Jan ◽  
Dawood Jan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Hedonic Analysis ◽  
Land Prices ◽  
Agricultural Land Prices
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