Agriculture carried out by individuals

We investigate a) how different farm types and the agricultural sector as a whole are influenced by technological development and changes in the economic and political environment, b) how they can adapt and c) how policy can intervene to achieve agricultural policy and sociopolitical objectives.

• We analyse the international competitiveness of important production systems of German agriculture. This is, for example, done in the world-wide agribenchmark network, which is led by vTI.
• We carry out comprehensive analyses of important policy measures such as the farm investment support and the support payments for organic farming.
• In collaboration with the Institute of Rural Studies and Institute of Market Analysis we estimate in the vTI model network the impacts of different policy options on German agriculture using representative datasets and models.