In Russland ergab sich mit der Einführung marktwirtschaftlicher Verhältnisse im Agrar- und Ernährungssektor im Zuge des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Transformationsprozesses für die Agrarhochschulen des Landes die Notwendigkeit das Lehrprogramm entsprechend umzustellen. Dazu gehörte die...

Common Agricultural Policy uses a large share of its budget to support and stabilise the income of EU farmers by means of direct payments (DP). This paper assesses how much and how DP reduce the variability of farm income over time. The analysis is developed on a constant sample of 2402 Italian...

This paper provides a unique perspective to the question of why U.S. producers' hedging practices are not consistent with the price-risk management literature. We conduct a formal test of income support program impacts with unique producer survey data from South Africa and the United States,...

This article provides a unique perspective to why U.S. producers' hedging practices are not consistent with the price-risk management literature. We conduct a formal test of income support program impacts with survey data from South Africa and the United States, which have different producer...