' general degree of trust in food safety and in the health safety of the fruit offered in Croatia. A comparison is made between … certificates that guarantee the health safety of food products. In this respect, we also tried to determine the various degrees of …

This study aims to characterise the evolution of vineyard production, to measure the levels of technical efficiency … period 2000-2005, belonging to Portuguese Alentejo region. The methodology used to estimate technical efficiency, was the … stochastic production frontier. The results showed that there are room to improve the levels of technical efficiency in input use …

The paper presents a model of the agro-food system in a transition economy, which shows how the move from a planned to … a market economy affects the production and consumption of goods and economic welfare. The model is then used to … substantially increase farm efficiency and productivity. …

The impact of group affiliation to agroholdings on enterprise performance in terms of productivity and efficiency is … the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Russia. The underlying research question of this paper is therefore whether …, total factor productivity and technical efficiency scores for the two categories of independent farms and members of …

This paper investigates regional cluster of organic grassland farms with respect to technical efficiency. The data …. The selection of determinants of technical efficiency is based on location theory. Since organic farming has regional … centers, technical efficiency (TE) of organic farms is found to be affected by regional variables (such as agglomeration …

disharmony and frustration in the production system, which ultimately limits production system effectiveness and efficiency …. Sometimes, in the presence of confusion, it is possible that effectiveness and efficiency may decrease. In this situation, we …

improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agricultural sector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to … perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency of water pricing policies, based on a two stage DEA technique, by which it is … possible to disaggregate the technical and the ecological efficiency of the policy. According to our results, we found that …

A stochastic input distance function is estimated to analyse the efficiency with which physical characteristics of … quality attributes. High mean technical efficiency estimates are reported for all animals and by breed. All partial output …