Assessment of the ownership structures of agricultural land in Germany (EigLanD)

The distribution of ownership of agricultural land is the subject of intense political debate, but there is as yet no statistical data on which to base this. •We have developed a method for analysing the distribution of agricultural land ownership in a largely automated way from data in the official land register. •The analysis of a nation wide sample of 59 municipalities shows that land ownership is distributed very differently among owner categories and individual owners.