public organic agricultural support, organic farming research and development, the availability of marketing and sales …Over the last two decades, organic farming has been one of the few sectors of agriculture to increase exponentially … across the world. This paper aims to analyse the relationship of market and agricultural policy signals on the share of …

Agricultural and non-agricultural distribution of earnings in Brazil …

competitiveness of China's trade in primary agricultural food and processed food products over the period 1998 to 2003 through a range …There has been much analysis of the potential impact of China's membership of the WTO on world trade in agricultural … products but few studies of the actual effects thus far on China's trade performance. This paper compares changes in the …

This paper is only a part of research completed for the PhD degree in agricultural economics in University of Miyazaki …

samples of 240 (120 from each) coffee famers. Mean technical efficiency score was 0.89 and 0.83 in organic and conventional … increasing return to scale (IRS) were 31.67, 3.83 and 37.5% respectively in organic coffee and 29.17, 25 and 45.83% respectively …

products. This study measures the benefits of COOL to an internationally diverse set of consumers (in developed and developing … preferences for COO information, organic production, and genetic modification. The results indicate COO information is not as … important as genetically modified content information (France, the United States, and Niger) or organic production information …

This paper investigates the efficiency of organic milk farms in Germany based on data from 1994/95 to 2005/06. Five … focused on the impacts of farm support of organic farms and of regional factors, that can influence technical efficiency. The …, show lower efficiency scores. Finally, the implication for agricultural policy are discussed. …

This article investigates which factors influence the economic growth of organic farms. Organic farming has experienced … a substantial growth in Germany since the beginning of the 1990s until today. Most organic farms are concentrated in the … method, the economic growth of organic farms is analyzed. Regression results suggest that organic farms with high revenue …

alternative management practices are available. The results suggest that the recent agricultural policy reforms will make organic … or a reduction of organic farming. An extended version of the Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) method is developed … in order to differentiate organic farming from conventional and other agri-environmental management practices in a sector …

performance and value for society of farming systems. Multicriteria assessment of agricultural systems is characterized by the … as a useful methodology to effectively assess and compare the multifunctional performances of agricultural systems, and …, sociocultural and environmental- of conventional, organic and integrated olive producing systems in a region of Spain, and test the …