The convergence of emerging sustainability regulations and recommendations outlined in the European, national and regional agricultural policies, coupled with the growing demand from retailers for food produced through more sustainable agriculture practices, presents a substantial challenge for...

On the basis of the definitions that have found the greatest acceptance among the scientific community, this paper identifies the business formulas that comprise the Social Economy in the agri-food sector with reference to the case of Spain, for which the latest data and figures are presented....

Dieser Beitrag setzt sich zum Ziel, für die zwei Märkte Milch- und Weinwirtschaft, auf denen Genossenschaften eine starke Marktposition eingenommen haben, eine Analyse der Unternehmenssituation in Bezug auf wichtige Bilanzkennzahlen durchzuführen und damit den Markterfolg im Vergleich zu...

Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for community...

The socio-economic situation of small banana growers generated a lot of issues among researchers. However, the situation drastically changed because land distribution became possible through the Collective Certificate of Land Ownership (CLOA) issuance under the CARP. CLOA is issued to...

The promotion of oil palm production as an agribusiness development policy is a major issue in response to the increasing demand of palm oil in the Philippines. This paper focused on oil palm production cooperatives composed of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) as members who were granted the...

Ökonomische Experimente sind eine bislang selten verwendete Forschungsmethode im Bereich der agrarpolitischen Analyse. Dieser Beitrag erörtert die Grundlagen von Experimenten, vergleicht sie mit anderen Forschungsmethoden und zeigt ein mögliches Anwendungsgebiet für die Agrarpolitikanalyse...

This paper analyzes the business performance of the German dairy industry based on the annual account data of the years from 2005 to 2007. The empirical work examines key performance indicators for the financial security and for the potential yield of the dairy industry. The interfirm comparison...