Agricultural Land Market Research Articles

Economic evaluation of agricultural land to assess land use changes

Land-use models express the relationship between various driving forces of land-use changes and are increasingly employed in practical applications to predict possible future land uses. The relationship between the agricultural land market and land-use changes is often neglected in such models. The objective of this study is to assess the production values of agricultural land to be integrated in an operational land-use model with the aim to improve understanding of land-use changes in all 28 European Union countries. This economic evaluation of agricultural land is based on the Net Present Value (NPV) method, a method that aims at uncovering the operational production values of land rather than real estate market value. The scientific relevance of this work is the development of a comprehensive methodology for the economic evaluation of agricultural land uses in different EU countries, the integration of economic production values of land to the local suitability approach in the studied land-use model and the provision of a EU-wide database of the NPVs of agricultural land uses, including various energy crops.

Формування попиту на ринку земель сільськогосподарського призначення вітчизняними товаровиробниками

Формування попиту на ринку земель сільськогосподарського призначення вітчизняними товаровиробниками

Zmiany na rynku ziemi rolniczej w Polsce

An analysis of occurring changes on the agricultural land market in Poland was the aim of the research. Poland has considerable resources of agricultural land. On average, on the 1 inhabitant fall 0.4 ha agricultural land. The constant shortfall occurs, predominantly as a consequence of handing of agricultural land on the non agricultural purposes. Resources of agricultural land in Poland, from the point of view of the ownership rights, may be separated into those, which are in private farmers ownership and those, which are qualified as the Agricultural Property Stock of the State Treasury. The agricultural land market in Poland is well developed and many different kinds of transactions are made on it. There were deep differences between transactions signed among neighbors and with the APSST. There were sold 2.5 million ha hitherto that were owned by the State Treasure. Transactions of the land tenancy play a significant role. The significant land transfer occurred as out of the market transactions, mainly as donations. Prices of land have been growing dynamically. In spite of that they are lower than these in the Western Countries.&nbsp

Transformation of agricultural land use in Russian regions in the course of modern socioeconomic reforms

The paper considers the results and territorial features of the transformation of agricultural land use in Russia’s federal subjects for the period of land reforms from 1991 through 2012. The most important stages of reform were the privatization of a significant portion of agricultural land and the creation on this basis of a multiform agriculture. In addition to large enterprises and organizations, significant land areas began to belong to farms, personal subsidiary plots, collective orchards, and individual horticulture plots, which helped to establish and develop the agricultural land market. The result of the transformations was a widespread reduction in the area of agricultural land, arable land, and sowing areas with an increase in fallow areas, natural hayfields, and pastures. Such a large-scale decrease in cultivated land occurred for the first time in Russia’s multicentury agrarian history. Territorial analysis of the transformation showed that what occurred was a reduction in the area of irrigated and drained land, as well as cropland with the richest Chernozem, Kastanozem (chestnut), and Phaeozem and Luvisol (gray forest) soils within the entire agriculturally developed territory of the country. The largest areas fell out of agricultural use as a result of their development as residential areas and infrastructure objects, as well as due to a decrease in land quality. An important reason for the reduction in agricultural land is its continuing degradation. The most actively transformative processes took place in the agriculturally developed regions of Central Russia within the southern-taiga–forest, forest–steppe, and steppe landscapes of European Russia, in southern Siberia, and the southern Far East.

Land Reform and Development of Agricultural Land Markets in Russia

Russia has experienced dramatic changes in land ownership and land tenure since the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991: agricultural land has been largely privatized, individual landowners now have legal rights to most agricultural land in the country, and previous prohibitions on buying and selling of land have been removed by recent laws. The necessary preconditions for the development of agricultural land markets have been met and we are beginning to witness transactions that involve individual landowners, and not only the state. However, further development of the embryonic land market is severely circumscribed by the inadequacy of the administrative and technical infrastructure. In this paper we discuss the dynamically evolving legal framework for land reform, consider the impacts of land reform on privatization and ownership structure of agricultural land, and analyze the development of land market transactions. The analysis is based on official statistical sources and the results of a questionnaire-based survey conducted by the authors in 2003 in three regions. The paper concludes with a review of the existing constraints on land transactions and some policy recommendations.

Agricultural land market in Slovakia - economic and legal impacts of the Law No. 140/2014 Coll. on the land acquisition

Agricultural land market in Slovakia - economic and legal impacts of the Law No. 140/2014 Coll. on the land acquisition

Using the Landsat data archive to assess long-term regional forest dynamics assessment in Eastern Europe, 1985-2012

Abstract. Dramatic political and economic changes in Eastern European countries following the dissolution of the “Eastern Bloc” and the collapse of the Soviet Union greatly affected land-cover and land-use trends. In particular, changes in forest cover dynamics may be attributed to the collapse of the planned economy, agricultural land abandonment, economy liberalization, and market conditions. However, changes in forest cover are hard to quantify given inconsistent forest statistics collected by different countries over the last 30 years. The objective of our research was to consistently quantify forest cover change across Eastern Europe from 1985 until 2012 using the complete Landsat data archive. We developed an algorithm for processing imagery from different Landsat platforms and sensors (TM and ETM+), aggregating these images into a common set of multi-temporal metrics, and mapping annual gross forest cover loss and decadal gross forest cover gain. Our results show that forest cover area increased from 1985 to 2012 by 4.7% across the region. Average annual gross forest cover loss was 0.41% of total forest cover area, with a statistically significant increase from 1985 to 2012. Most forest disturbance recovered fast, with only 12% of the areas of forest loss prior to 1995 not being recovered by 2012. Timber harvesting was the main cause of forest loss. Logging area declined after the collapse of socialism in the late 1980s, increased in the early 2000s, and decreased in most countries after 2007 due to the global economic crisis. By 2012, Central and Baltic Eastern European countries showed higher logging rates compared to their Western neighbours. Comparing our results with official forest cover and change estimates showed agreement in total forest area for year 2010, but with substantial disagreement between Landsat-based and official net forest cover area change. Landsat-based logging areas exhibit strong relationship with reported roundwood production at national scale. Our results allow national and sub-national level analysis of forest cover extent, change, and logging intensity and are available on-line as a baseline for further analyses of forest dynamics and its drivers.

Renta polityczna ziemi w aspekcie dóbr publicznych – ujęcia teoretyczne i empiryczne

Polish membership in the European Union (instruments of the CAP) and national agricultural policy in that area have an influence on the market of agricultural land in Poland. Financial support for agriculture is justified, because agriculture supplies public goods, but at the same time it inhibits agrarian transformation and increases the phenomenon of rent seeking. This concerns mainly farmers carrying out easy and highly supported activities such as agri- -environmental programme. The results of field studies carried out among the beneficiaries of this program in Warmia-Mazury region showed that the scale of rent-seeking can be evaluated even at the level of approx. 30%. This concerns mainly members of larger-area farms, acquired through purchase after 2000. These are usually farms supported within actions organic farming, receiving no revenue from the sale of agricultural products.

Enhancement of Land Tenure Relations as a Factor of Sustainable Agricultural Development: Case of Stavropol Krai, Russia

The aim of this paper is to give an overview and analyze the contemporary land tenure relations in Russia in view of their influences on economic viability of agricultural production. The paper investigates progress made toward the development of agricultural land market in economies in transition. The research is made with emphasis on Stavropol Krai, agricultural region in the southern part of Russia. The authors retrospectively address land tenure relations in the region, analyze contemporary tendencies, and discover linkages between land tenure relations and sustainable agricultural development. The later concept is understood here as economic viability of agricultural production. The paper focuses on the potential approaches for resolving specific problem issues in the sphere of sustainable agricultural development through effective land tenure relations. The paper is concluded with the substantiation of methodology of land rent payment, the size of which is made conditional on land productivity and effectiveness of agricultural production.

The transactions on the agricultural land market in Slovakia

Data on the transactions with agricultural land in 2012, based on the primary data from the Research Institute of Geodesy and Cartography in Bratislava, were evaluated according to the legal status of the buyer and also whether the legal person was a national of the Slovak Republic, or had been resident abroad. The results of the data analysis pointed out that in the selected twelve districts of the Slovak Republic in 2012, there were 55.75% of legal persons, 44.10% of natural persons and 0.15% of subjects without determining the legal form involved in the transactions with agricultural land. Legal persons were divided into two categories, i.e. the entities with the nationality of the Slovak Republic and the entities domiciled abroad. The results showed that in 2012, within the study sample of buyers of the farmland, there were 99.91% of legal persons having the nationality of the Slovak Republic, and only 0.09% was other legal persons from abroad.  

AGRICULTURAL LAND MARKET IN SLOVAKIA UNDER THE NEW LAND ACQUISITION LAW

This paper discusses recent developments in the market for agricultural land in Slovakia related to the new law on land acquisition. The stated objective of this law is to protect agricultural land from non-agricultural use. We analyze land-related data as reported by sellers in the newly established Registry of offers of agricultural land administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Our results show that the regions with the most fertile soils are not the ones with the highest average land prices. Moreover, we show that the average regional prices are very sensitive to price outliers. For example, the average price for agricultural land in Slovakia is 27,200 EUR per hectare. However, this price falls down to 6,300 EUR per hectare if only observations with prices below 10,000 EUR per hectare are considered.

The socio-economic factors affecting the development of agricultural land market in Poland

The study is aimed at the analysis of the situation in the agricultural land market in Poland, including the identification and description of factors affecting the turnover and rules governing trade in agricultural land and the influence of the Agricultural Property Agency on the supply and demand relationships in trade in agricultural land. The main and critical factors affecting the demand-supply relations in the market are identified.

Philadelphia Merchants, Backcountry Shopkeepers, and Town-Making Fever

ABSTRACT As the French and Indian War drew to a close, enterprising Pennsylvanians began laying out thirty new backcountry towns. This “town-making fever,” which peaked in 1761–64, reflected a fresh understanding of the frontier, no longer a defensive line, but an open door to land and opportunity beyond current settlements. Backcountry towns drew artisans, mostly young newcomers, priced out of the market for agricultural land. The men who platted these towns hoped they would draw the trade of the vicinity. As nodal points in networks of credit and commerce, these new towns marked the integration of the backcountry in an Atlantic economy.

Creation of Agricultural Land Market in Ukraine

The article describes the main arguments of the land market based rent and sale. Completed SWOT analysis options for the land market. Argued the benefits of market-based land lease. The author presents his own interpretation of the ‘farm land market’ concept and determines the function and conditions of the effective market development in Ukraine. It has been established that the land market secures the implementation of the principle of the rational and efficient land use, contributes to receiving a maximum payoff from each unit of the area, forms the attitude to land as a specific value and promotes the conservation of lands and their fertility improvement. The paper considers some priority measures which are implemented through the land market. The author proves that the farm land purchase and sale market grew civilized, and it is necessary to introduce a controlled turnover of lands. This not only provides for the lifting of the moratorium on farm land sale but also the enactment of the legal base and development of the adequate infrastructure. The pattern of land value inclusion in the marketing environment with the purpose of attracting investment resources to the agrarian sector of the economy has been suggested.

Factor Markets in Babylonia from the Late Seventh to the Third Century BCE

Abstract This paper studies the evidence for the existence of a labour market, a market for agricultural land, and a market for capital in Babylonia from the sixth to the third century bce. The argument is informed by our current understanding of the performance of Babylonian commodity markets, for which abundant quantitative information is available. I attempt to establish a connection between the general political and socio-economic development in Babylonia from the sixth century onwards and the increase and decrease of the role that can be attributed to factor markets.

Implications of Agrarian Structures upon the Agricultural Supply in Romania

The main objective of the paper is to identify the structural factors that led to a chronic insufficiency of the Romanian agri-food domestic supply in the last decades. The paper makes an update and re-evaluation of problems related to Romania's agriculture production potential, in the context of the current evolutions of the agrarian and production structures and of the possible effects of the Common Agricultural Policy Reform. The changes produced in the last decade are investigated with regard to farm consolidation, increase of farm area, agricultural land operation modality and land market problems. At the same time, the production structures are also analyzed in relation to farm size. The main conclusion of the study is that the current agrarian structures contribute by different modalities to ensuring the domestic agricultural supply and food security. The calculation of certain statistical indicators on production variability and its diversification on the large, medium and small-sized farms revealed the strong specialization of production on the large farms and production diversification on the small farms.

Economy Modeling with Formation of Agricultural Land Market. Part I

Economy Modeling with Formation of Agricultural Land Market. Part I

Economy Modeling with Formation of Agricultural Land Market. Part II

Economy Modeling with Formation of Agricultural Land Market. Part II

Mechanisms of valuation of public goods on the agricultural land market - considerations in the context of sustainable development

Mechanisms of valuation of public goods on the agricultural land market - considerations in the context of sustainable development Since the beginning of human civilization, the land has been creating certain utilities which satisfy human needs. When the dangerous side effects of industrial agriculture have occurred intrinsic land utilities are being discovered anew. They have a nature of public goods and constitute a hard core of the sustainable agriculture paradigm. Despite irreversible accumulation of capital in the anthropogenic environment many new utilities of the land come into existence without additional capital and labour outlay. Since they are public goods, they are paid from taxes in great measure. This way an intrinsic land utility takes a form of a financial product and can be called „intrinsic productivity” of land. The aim of the elaboration is to identify the mechanism that make intrinsic land utility transforms into productivity in monetary units. A conducted research consists in deriving a land rent capitalized in land prices and estimating its share in land value in comparison with the share of lease fees in the different regions of Poland in years 2000-2009. In the authors’ opinion since accession of Poland to the UE a market valorizes intrinsic utilities of land, whereas the new role of capital and labour is distribution of those utilities for consumers.

Urban policies, agriculture and land market: What future for periurban agriculture in Constantine?

This article shows how social policies aimed at increasing the private housing market can be a constraint on the agricultural land market and affect the behaviours of land owners. Through the case of the city of Constantine (Algeria), we show how suburban agriculture is disturbed by the impacts of urban policy. At the same time, the agricultural sector, historically devoted to grain production and organized in national networks, has not sought alliances with the city. It is undergoing high competition for land which is, in turn, leading to a high level of economic insecurity for farmers due to public decisions or the market price. A field study on the main traders and administrators of both land and the housing market provides quantified data. This data makes it possible to evaluate market impacts in the historically centralized Algerian situation while highlighting the social mechanisms which lie at the root of the speculation, and which are constant across countries and political situations.