Germany’s energy transition is affecting its land market, driving investment and increasing concentration of land ownership. In this op-ed, Anne Neuber of Netzwerk Flächensicherung, an alliance working to secure land for ecological, regional and peasant agriculture in Germany, explores these dynamics and calls for stronger regulation to ensure solar expansion works in harmony with farming and environmental priorities.
Symposium at the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Berlin, Germany (26.01.2022) “Farmers without Land? New opportunities through community land ownership” was the title of a conference organised by Kulturland jointly with two other German networks (Netzwerk Flächensicherung and Netzwerk Landwirtschaft ist Gemeingut) in Berlin. The topic… Read More »Farmers without Land?
A closer look to a tool developed in Germany – Richtig rechnen / Calculte it right! Regionalwert AG is experimenting with innovative approaches for financial accounting taking environmental and social aspects into account. “Calculate it right” is the outcome of… Read More »How to do financial accounting in a more sustainable way
4 documentaries on Land Machtching Platforms What is a Land Matching Platform? Here is not an answer but several. In the frame of a European project we met persons involved in different projects. Come an meet them, here and now.… Read More »Land Matching Platforms in Europe
April 2017 With small farms disappearing at a fast pace, it has become extremely important for everyone to understand how crucial the small farms are to agriculture. Small farms contribute not only towards the local jobs and rural activities, but… Read More »Small farms in Europe – viable but underestimated
February 2017 This paper by Regionalwert AG explains how we can measure the value of small scale farming by the indicators that they have defined, using the principles of Schuhmacher (1973). Economics usually talks about if an activity is profitable or not… Read More »RWAG Indicators as a Tool to Change the Accountancy System and Reveal the True Benefit of Human-scale Farms
2016 This diploma thesis written by Adela Stanislavova explores the issue of access to land in Czech Republic by comparing with other europeans countries such as France, Germany and Romania. The thesis was supervised by Vratislava Janovska from the Czech… Read More »Access to Land for agroecological way of farming
by Christian Hiß, 2015 The term ´peasant agriculture´ generally describes a type of rural economy that practically does not exist in our society, which is dominated by industrial and service economy. The term is however present with most people as… Read More »From peasant agriculture to the local and convivial supply economy of the future