@article{Sauer:51626,
      recid = {51626},
      author = {Sauer, Johannes and Davidova, Sophia and Latruffe, Laure},
      title = {Determinants for fallowing land: The case of Kosovo},
      address = {2009},
      number = {1005-2016-79090},
      series = {Contributed Paper},
      pages = {20},
      year = {2009},
      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 carried out in  2005 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 econometric models are used  expected to fit the data distribution.
All estimated model  specifications show a statistical significance at a  satisfactory level and no severe signs of misspecification.  The main determinants of the share of land left fallow by  farmers in Kosovo are economic and institutional: low  profitability of farming and difficulty to access inputs.  The increase in incentives to farmers by improving market  institutions up- and downstream is one measure which could  alleviate the barriers to land use.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/51626},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.51626},
}