This study addresses the achievements of cooperative agreements in sustainable agriculture policy. After an economic analysis of multi-actor choice situations, it focuses the attention on the self-organizing potential of regional market parties in order to comply with environmental policy...

Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...

This paper applies an ANOVA-type of meta-analysis to the evaluation of agri-environmental policy in the European Union. Meta-analysis is concerned with the statistical analysis of previous research results, and has become an established technique in the medical and natural science. The paper...