The present papers establishes a framework that allows to investigate the determinants of the extensive and intensive margin of participation in the Fairtrade certification scheme. We use this knowlegde to identify a causal effect of Fairtrade certification on growth in the agricultural sector...

We estimate a food demand system for Slovakia using a recent household budget survey data for the period 2004-2011. The Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) augmented with demographic, regional and expenditure controls is employed based on preliminary non-parametric Engel curve...

One of the pillars of food security in developing countries is the accessibility to food. Over the last decade, world food market experienced events during which food prices increased significantly. The periods of high food prices were also accompanied by a high degree of volatility in prices....

Since the latter half of 1990s, it has been discussed that many developing countries are going to face serious population aging problem while these economies are still underdeveloped and not adequately prepared against aging yet in terms of institutional reform such as social security. As the...

The 2009 Directive on Renewable Energies (called RED) has set up ambitious targets concerning biofuels consumption in the European Union. This paper addresses this issue in the case of France, focusing on alternative tax policies designed to stimulate biofuels consumption. Our main objective is...

Structural change is a fundamental phenomenon that accompanies the development of market-based economies. Structural change in agriculture can be understood in a broad sense as adjustments of economic entities in the agricultural sector in response to various driving forces. Depending on the...

Driving forces, economic transformation, suburbanisation, migration and recent construction of linear infrastructures have inevitably contributed to unfavourable land use trends around Europe. Arable land area has been continuously declining and has been replaced by artificial and built-up areas...

For these reasons, agriculture took advantage of big tax exemptions renewed until the end of 2013. The tax exemption of the sector is supposed to promote, attract and develop private investments. Actually, in the two last years, agricultural sector was the second one, after real estate, to...

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The ability to explain the development of supply, demand, and prices of commodities (especially agricultural and energy commodities) is essential for policy-makers around the globe for several reasons since they represent an essential part of the consumption baskets. Moreover, energy and...