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| Title: | Leaving land fallow: The case of subsistence farming in the Western Balkans |
| Authors: | Sauer, Johannes
Davidova, Sophia
Latruffe, Laure |
| Authors (Email): | Sauer, Johannes (j.sauer@imperial.ac.uk) |
| Keywords: | fallow land decision
Kosovo
Tobit regression
Fractional response regression
Zero-inflated binomial regression |
| Issue Date: | 2009-10 |
| Abstract: | The key question of this paper is why farmers in Kosovo leave land fallow when the total land
of their farms is rather small and households are rather large. In order to elicit some barriers to land utilisation in Kosovo, the paper is based on a comprehensive survey investigating
agricultural households’ perceptions of production and market conditions, and employs
several households and farm characteristics to empirically approximate the significance of different factors for leaving land fallow and not using it for production purposes. Three different models have been estimated. All estimated model specifications show a statistical significance at a satisfactory level and no severe signs of misspecification. One of the main
factors farmers stated for their decision to leave land fallow was the low profitability of farming. The increase in incentives to farmers by improving market institutions up- and downstream is one measure which could alleviate the barriers to land use. Larger arable areas decrease the probability for fallow land. This emphasises the need for land consolidation. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/53278 |
| Institution/Association: | German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA)>49th Annual Conference, Kiel, Germany, September 30-October 2, 2009 |
| Total Pages: | 11 |
| Collections: | 49th Annual Conference, Kiel, Germany, September 30-October 2, 2009
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