Reliable marketing opportunities in both interregional and international trade along with relatively low transportation [and transaction] costs are essential to profitability of wheat production. In this study we have investigated one aspect of the quality of marketing and trade opportunities in...

In der Wertschöpfung der türkischen Landwirtschaft hat die Obst- und Gemüseproduktion große Bedeutung und Tafel- und Industrietomaten sind wiederum das wichtigste Einzelprodukt unter den Gemüsesorten. Das Papier beschreibt die Struktur und Entwicklung des Sektors seit den 1990-er Jahren und...

Tests for causality and rationality in the coffee futures market were carried out using data from the New York Market. Tests of causality indicated that futures prices strongly influence variations in spot price eight weeks or more to maturity. However, beginning seven weeks to maturity there...

Policy makers have been striving through market reforms to ensure proper functioning of agricultural markets and marketing channels to ensure food security, realize welfare impacts from policies, bridge the gap between the affluent and deprived regions. The core of which is due to regional...

The paper explores the characteristics of spatial price movements for fresh vegetables. The analysis is conducted on tomatoes and cauliflowers prices collected on main production and consumption European markets. It is based on the estimation of an asymmetric threshold autoregressive econometric...

The paper presents partial results from an Italian study on consumer perception and knowledge of organic food and related behaviour. Uses the means-end chain model to link attributes of products to the needs of consumers. In order to provide insights into consumer motivation in purchasing...

Ähnlich wie in den anderen MOEL hatte auch in der Slowakei der Systemwechsel Anfang der 90er Jahre drastische Folgen für den Agrar- undb Ernährungssektor. Die Konsumenten reagierten auf die Abschaffung der Verbrauchersubventionen bei Milch und Milchprodukten mit deutlicher Einschränkung...

Despite significant progress in recent years, horizontal and vertical integration of the Lithuanian milk sector is not very much advanced. The primary sector is characterised by small-scale farming, the fragmentation of farmland and a low number of livestock per farms. These features cause...

In this paper, we aim to model the vertical relation between retailers and suppliersin the food industry whereby retailers exercise seller power in their relation with consumersand buyer power in their relation with producers. We then evaluate the degree of pricetransmission, relative to the...

This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences) and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of agrarian contracts. First, it specifies type and importance of...