Determinants of Smallholders’ Decisions to Leave Land Fallow: The Case of Kosovo
研究了科索沃小农户在家庭依赖农业且土地面积小的情况下为何选择休耕，基于2005/2006年调查数据，发现经济制度和不安全感是主要决定因素。
Abstract This article investigates why farmers in Kosovo leave land fallow when their farms’ total land area is small and households, almost fully dependent on farming for their livelihoods, are large. It uses a comprehensive survey carried out during the agricultural year 2005/2006 to explore agricultural households’ perceptions of production, market conditions and general security 6 years after the end of the military conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Several locational, household and farm characteristics empirically approximate the significance of different factors for the amount of land left idle. Two different econometric models are used to address the characteristics of the dependent variable distribution by accounting for endogeneity. The main determinants of the share of land left fallow are found to be related to the economic and institutional structure, and to the general feeling of insecurity.