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Do farmers care about rented land? A multi-method study on land tenure and soil conservation

Peer-reviewed publication

March 2019

Austria

Does ownership status of agricultural land determine farmers’ soil use behaviour? Why (not)? We investigate this old question using multiple methods and data. We apply econometric analysis to plot-level data to determine whether planting decisions differ between rented and owned plots. In addition, we analyse interviews with Austrian farmers with the aim of explaining (a lack of) differences.

Effects of historical land use and land pattern changes on soil erosion – Case studies from Lower Austria and Central Bohemia

Peer-reviewed publication

March 2019

Austria

Czech Republic

United States of America

This paper addresses changes in land use and in the spatial distribution of land units and their influence on the soil erosion risk in two areas with a different geomorphology and a different historical and political development: an intensively-used lowland agricultural watershed in central Bohemia, Czech Republic, and a partially hilly agricultural and wine-producing municipality in northern A

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Austrian Federal Government

The Austrian Federal Government (German: Österreichische Bundesregierung) is a collective body that exercises executive power in the Republic of Austria.

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)

The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, or simply BOKU (derived from its German name, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien), founded by the Austrian Empire in 1872, is an education and research centre for renewable resources in Vienna.