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Assessment of farmland ownership structures in Germany (EigLanD)
Project
Project code: TI-LR-08-PID2225
Contract period: 01.02.2020
- 31.01.2021
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
How is farmland ownership in Germany distributed? We try to tackle this question by analysing a nationwide sample.
Little is known about ownership’s distribution of agricultural land in Germany. Official statistics only refer to the extent of land owned by agricultural holdings. However, who is owner of the leased land, and how is the real estate property distributed? Is there a significant ownership concentration? These questions are raised when agricultural politicians think about revising the existing land transaction legislation. Land ownership is documented in the land register. In the German land register, a unique personal identifier is missing. Therefore it’s not easy to generate valid ownership statistics. In ‘EigLanD’ we prepare and analyse ownership data of agricultural land in a sample of municipalities in order to gain knowledge on the ownership distribution.
As an outcome of this one-year project, we have developed an adequate method for the anonymized assessment of ALKIS data. We have generated results from a non-representative random sample including 59 municipalities. As expected, ownership distribution is varying in a wide range with respect to owner categories and indcators of ownership concentration.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural Policy
- Agricultural Sociology
