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Preferences, trust and willingness to pay for food information: An analysis of the Italian Market

Nocella, Giuseppe; Stefani, Gianluca; Romano, Donato - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Lack of consumer trust and communication strategies are probably the main determinants of information failure in modern food markets. This study attempts to tackle these aspects affecting the quality of food information by investigating questions related to what topics are more relevant to...

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Managing integration in bio-energy chains by promoting a collective action

Cembalo, Luigi; Pascucci, Stefano; Tagliafierro, Carolina; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

This paper discusses how to develop and manage integration, coordination and cooperation (collective action) in bio-energy supply chains. Farmers decision on whether or not to participate in a contract farming scheme have been investigated, particularly assessing the trade-offs between the...

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Farmers participation in short channels in Italy: an empirical analysis

Bonanno, Alessandro; Pascucci, Stefano; Caracciolo, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

This paper analyses factors affecting the likelihood of farmers to participate in short supply chains to market their products. While in literature participation in farmers markets is often emphasised as a re-action to mainstream production strategies, mainly imposed by large retailer,...

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Factors Affecting Participation of Italian Farmers in Rural Development Policy

Adinolfi, Felice; Capitanio, Fabian; Pascucci, Stefano; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

In this paper a (micro)econometric approach is developed by considering the farmer likelihood to participate in different policy programs as linked to the objective of farmer to maximize their welfare. In this way we model farmers participation in policy support scheme by using a new...

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CAP Reform and the Mediterranean EU-Member States

Borresch, Rene; Kavallari, Aikaterini; Schmitz, P. Michael - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

In the previous years the Mediterranean Member States of the EU came across the Reform of the CAP and especially last year faced the second wave of the Reform for three typical Mediterranean products, namely cotton, olive oil and tobacco. In this paper a partial equilibrium model is used to...

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Farm Structure and the Effects of Agri-Environmental Programs: Results from a Matching Analysis for European Countries

Pufahl, Andrea; Weiss, Christoph R. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

This paper extends previous research (Pufahl and Weiss, 2009) and applies a semi-parametric propensity score matching approach to evaluate the effects of agrienvironment (AE) programs on input use and farm output of individual farms in eight Member States of the European Union. We find...

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Some like to join, others to deliver. An econometric analysis of farmers' relationships with agricultural co-operatives

Pascucci, Stefano; Gardebroek, Cornelis - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

In many European countries, farmers are a member of a processing or marketing co-operative, and most of these farmers also deliver their products to that co-operative. However, an extensive dataset of Italian farmers shows that not all members deliver to their co-op, and that there are also...

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The EU demand for imports of virgin olive oil

Ben Kaabia, Monia; Gil, Jose Maria - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

This paper has analysed the import demand for virgin olive oil in the EU and more precisely in the Italian market, as it concentrates more than 80% of EU imports, aiming to determine the relative position of Mediterranean EU and non-EU countries exports and their degree of substitutability or...

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The challenge of the international organic certification: a new opportunity for agricultural trading?

Canavari, Maurizio; Cantore, Nicola - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

Italy by a cross country and panel analysis and second it provides an original specification for transaction costs. In … particular, we assume that the level of organic certification standards harmonisation between Italy and extra-European countries … that the absence of specific import harmonisation rules between Italy and other extra-European countries decreases the …

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Agriculture and Income Distribution: Insights from a SAM of the Italian Economy

Rocchi, Benedetto; Romano, Donato; Stefani, Gianluca - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002

The paper presents the results of the first SAM analysis of the agricultural sector in Italy. A SAM of the Italian …

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