FOR 986: Structural Change in Agriculture

在技术变革、全球化、新的社会需求和农业政策范式转变的推动下，发达国家的农业部门经历了一场影响深远的结构性变革。研究股的目标是对这些调整过程进行综合经济分析。分析农业部门转型进程的现有理论和方法应当得到补充、进一步发展和巩固。其结果是对农业结构变化有了更近距离的看法。其结果是增强了图景，更好地识别了外生因素、政治工具和企业决策之间的因果关系。根据社会目标预测和治理结构性变化是必不可少的前提条件。未解决的研究问题的例子有：

Agricultural sectors in developed countries undergo a far-reaching structural change, which is driven by technological change, globalisation, new societal demands and a paradigm shift of the agricultural policy. The objective of the Research Unit is the integrative economic analysis of these adjustment processes. Already existing theoretical and methodological approaches for the analysis of the transformation process in the agricultural sector should be supplemented, further developed and consolidated. The result is a closer view regarding the agricultural structure change. The outcome is an enhanced picture and a better identification of causalities between exogenous factors, political instruments and corporate decision-making. And it is an essential precondition to predict and to govern structural change in terms of social objectives. Examples of unsolved research questions are: