Indicator-based frameworks for assessing farms' environmental performance have become a resource for environmental knowledge regarding the impacts of agricultural practices. The present study explores whether a novel indicator-based direct payment system, which focuses on the farms'...

Agriculture represents just a small part of the production and international trade. Although its share is little compared to the manufacturing and services sector, agriculture is still the source of an essential product for humankind - food. One of the trends that changed international trade...

Among the keys enabling the actors of the food chain to become more sustainable, the Strategy assigns an important role to knowledge and information. For this reason, the Farm to Fork Strategy aims to make the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) the main data source of sustainable indicators,...

This study aims to foresee the future of organic farming in the smallholder agricultural systems of the Valencian Region (Spain), as well as to identify how different drivers of change may affect such a future. To do so, two qualitative methodologies were combined: The Delphi method and the...

I examine how corporate investment responds to the supply of private activity bonds (PAB), which are tax-exempt municipal bonds issued on behalf of private sector firms. Exploiting a change in the state-level cap for PABs as mandated by the 1986 Tax Reform Act, I compare the real effects of...