Driving forces behind vineyard abandonment in Slovakia following the move to a market-oriented economy

Influences of Environmental Drivers on Land Cover Structure and its Long-Term Changes: a Case Study of the Villages of Malachov and Podkonice in Slovakia / Vliv Environmentálních Podmínek Na Strukturu Krajinného Pokryvu A Její Dlouhodobé Změny: Případová Studie Obcí Malachov A Podkonice Na Slovensku

“…Oláh (2003) interpreted land use change in the Podpoľanie region, by land-use form affinity to landscape-ecological complex components. The study by Lieskovský et al (2013), analysing the driving forces of vineyard abandonment, appears to be the only work explicitly focusing on spatial land cover change drivers in Slovakia.…”

Developing a strategy for the protection of traditional agricultural landscapes based on a complex landscape-ecological evaluation (the case of a mountain landscape in Slovakia)

“…The questionnaire survey provided quantitative data on farmers and their farming practices. The total sample was divided into recent farmers in the 2000s, farmers from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, non-farmers, potential farmers from farming families, and other remaining respondents (Lieskovský et al, 2013).…”

Driving forces of main landscape change processes from past 200 years in Central Europe - differences between old democratic and post-socialist countries

“…increasing environmental awareness among the population, better enforcement of environmental laws, shift of agricultural subsidies from productive to non-productive agricultural functions and implementation of agri-environmental schemes (aEs) targeting nonproductive agricultural functions, largely affected landscapes across Europe, especially in the post-socialist countries after the transformation of the economy from centrally planned to free market Havlíček et al, 2012;lieskovský et al, 2013;plieninger, schaich, 2014). Environmental awareness and environmental laws already affected landscape changes in some regions of old democratic countries in the first half of the 20th century romao et al, 2012) and have developed further in the whole Central Europe since the 1970s skokanová et al, 2012) as can be seen from Fig.…”

“…radical institutional reforms (transition from communist regimes to democratic regimes) and economic shocks (transition from centrally planned to free-market systems), largely triggered rapid agricultural land abandonment. The main driving forces were restitution of private property and the land market that had been nationalised under communism; partial privatisation of state property; emergence of small and middle-sized businesses; transformation of agricultural co-operatives; liberalisation of prices for inputs and agricultural products; introduction of budget constraints; disappearance of guaranteed markets within the socialist bloc; introduction of foreign competition; changes in agricultural policies; and changes in the agricultural commodity market Feranec et al, 2010;kuemmerle et al, 2008;varga et al, 2013;Łowicki, 2008;kanianska et al, 2014;kopecká et al, 2012;lieskovský et al, 2013;szilassi et al, 2010;Tarasovičová et al, 2013).…”