Despite a large literature about energy production from renewable resources, the specific interplay between farm … studied. This paper aims at analyzing the farmers’ intentions towards the on-farm adoption of energy crops or technologies for … intentions by a sample of more than 2,300 farm-households interviewed in nine European countries. Stated intentions towards the …

municipalities of Emilia Romagna. Significant variables are farm’s size, population density, location in NVZs and share of certified … availability of better estimation of changes in nitrogen inputs, such as the calculation at the farm scale, would be an important …

The on-farm diversification toward multifunctional activities is perceived as central in the CAP policy reform and in … farm-household diversification and rural economies are central into the process of multifunctionality and provision of … public goods through agricultural activities, on-farm diversification activities could represent a relevant share of farm …

definition of agricultural firms, this structural change of farms is characterized by exit of small farms and increasing farm … - 2007 both at the farm and the territorial level. The study combines data from two different sources: the 2000 census of … Agriculture and three waves (2003 - 2005 - 2007) of the European “Farm and Structure Surveys” (FSS) realized in Italy by ISTAT …

mechanisms emerged along with a preference for farm-to-farm and agriculture-domestic water exchanges. Normative and ethical …

) indicators have been directly derived. Starting from a multi-criteria matrix a Sustainability Farm Index (SuFI) has been … calculated at farm level. The methodology has been applied to the regional FADN sample of Veneto of 2009. The current FADN … database has demonstrated to be a valuable source of information to monitor the environmental and social farm assets, beside …

endogeneity of channel choice decision. To that end, we use the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) referred to 2010. Results …

We analyse the determinants of off-farm labour participation of farmers, an issue relevant in view of the agricultural … sector coping with increasing productivity and in terms of rural development. We apply a farm-household theoretical model …. The data for the empirical analysis are a 5 year (2003-2007) balanced panel of 3294 Italian farms, drawn from the Farm …