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Potential Adoption of Genetically Modified Rapeseed in France, Effects on Revenues of Farmers and Upstream Companies: an ex ante evaluation

Desquilbet, Marion; Lemarie, Stephane; Levert, Fabrice - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002

In this paper, we conduct an empirical investigation of potential adoption of herbicide-tolerant (HT) genetically modified (GM) rapeseed in France. Our aim is to study ex ante the potential impact of their adoption in France, in terms of adoption level, economic gains, and distribution of these...

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Is organic farming a chance for family farms to survive?

Ferto, Imre; Forgacs, Csaba - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

The paper investigates the choice between conventional and organic production technologies for individual farmers in Hungarian agriculture. We employ sequential logit model on a cross-section data set of Hungarian farmers for the period 2007. Our estimations reveal that age of farmers has...

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THE CHOICE BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL AND ORGANIC FARMING – A HUNGARIAN EXAMPLE

Ferto, Imre; Forgacs, Csaba - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

The organic agriculture represents a promising alternative for the future of European agriculture. It is consistent with the notion of sustainable development set forth already in the 1992 CAP Reform. Despite of increasing importance of organic farming, the research on organic farming is still...

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Networks as determinants of rural migration

Zarnekow, Nana; Henning, Christian H.C.A. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

This paper focuses on networks as determinants of rural migration and the importance of networks in a rural development … networks as well as socio-economic components and the regional public-good endowment are important drivers of migration, but …

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Some Conceptional Thoughts on the Impact of Social Networks on Non-farm Rural Employment

Traikova, Diana; Mollers, Judith; Fritzsch, Jana; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

contribution to rural development. However, the role of social capital and the underlying networks in getting access to NFRE has …

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Social networks and farmer exposure to improved cereal varieties in central Tanzania

Muange, Elijah Nzula; Schwarze, Stefan; Qaim, Matin - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

information among 345 cereal farmers and the effects of social networks on farmer exposure to improved varieties in Central …, kinship ties, community leadership role, and links to extension officers. Further, farmer networks positively affect the … intensity of exposure to seed technologies with mostly missing or malfunctioning markets. Moreover, it is information networks …

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Relationship Between Prices of Food, Fuel and Biofuel

Kristoufek, Ladislav; Janda, Karel; Zilberman, David - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

In this paper, we analyze the relationships between the prices of biodiesel, ethanol and related fuels and agricultural commodities with a use of minimal spanning trees and hierarchical trees. To distinguish between short-term and medium-term effects, we construct these trees for different...

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Mission Impossible? Lessons on Vertical Collaboration in Ukraine

Gagalyuk, Taras; Hanf, Jon Henrich - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

Nowadays food products are produced in vertically collaborating networks. The questions of how such chain networks have …

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Social Capital and the Food System: Some Evidences from Empirical Research

Sodano, Valeria; Verneau, Fabio - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2006

The paper stresses that in order to understand the current re-organizational processes in the food system, two kinds of social capital should be taken into account, trust and network-based social capital. Stemming from a case study, concerning the Italian processing tomato industry, it...

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Regional networking as a competitive advantage? Empirical results from German pig production

Deimel, Mark; Plumeyer, Cord-Herwig; Theuvsen, Ludwig; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

It is often hypothesized that geographical proximity in clusters (or industry districts) has positive effects on access to information and knowledge and on firm competitiveness. We present one of the first empirical tests of this hypothesis in the context of the European agribusiness sector. A...

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