Simulating structural change in agriculture: Modelling farming households and farm succession
- Publication Type
- Contribution to conference
- Authors
- Troost, C., Berger, T.,
- Year of publication
- 2016
- Published in
- Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
- Conference location
- Toulouse, France
- Conference date
- July 10-14, 2016
- Keywords
- sustainability
The majority of European farms are family farms. Farm succession, i.e. passing over theresponsibility from farm owner and manager to their heir, is an important element of structural changein agriculture. We present a model implementation capturing farming household evolution in an agent-based model and explore the consequences of farm household composition and farm succession onagricultural production, investment and participation in agri-environmental policy schemes.
Involved persons
Involved institutions
- Hohenheim Research Center for Bioeconomy
- Land Use Economics in the Tropics and Subtropics (Josef G. Knoll Professorship)
- Hohenheim Tropen
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute)
- Climate Adaptation
- Bioeconomic Modelling
Projects in the course of the publication
- DFG-FOR 1695: Agricultural Landscapes under Global Climate Change – Processes and Feedbacks on a Regional Scale
- DFG-FOR 1695: Central project management and communication (PZ)
- DFG-FOR: Agent-based modelling and assessment of human-environment interactions (P6)
- DFG-FOR: Integrated land system modeling (P8)
- DFG-PAK: Agent-based modelling and assessment of human-environment interactions (P6)
- DFG-PAK: Conceptual and technical integration of land system model components (P8)
- DFG-PAK: Structure and Functions of Agricultural Landscapes under Global Climate Change - Processes and Projections on a Regional Scale (Regional Climate Change)