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Agri-food business: Global challenges â Innovative solutions

Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Vandemartele, Thijs; Hirschauer, … - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2008

The rise of a western-style middle class in many successful emerging economies like China currently is inducing deep structural changes on agricultural world markets and within the global agri-food business. As a result of both higher incomes and concerns over product safety and quality the...

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Multi-level Processes of Integration and Disintegration. Proceedings of the Third Green Week Scientific Conference.

Schaft, Franziska - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2009

This volume of proceedings, available as both a hard copy and a pdf file, is an edited compilation of selected contributions to the MACE Conference 2009, held in Berlin, Germany, at the ICC from 14 to 15 January 2009. We would like to thank all those persons and organisations who contributed to...

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Sustainable rural development: What is the role of the agri-food sector?

Just, Flemming; Emmanuel, Adinyira; Oteng-Seifah, Samuel; … - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2007

This volume of proceedings, available both as hard copy and pdf, is an edited compilation of selected contributions to the IAMO Forum 2007, which will be held in Halle (Saale), Germany, at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe from 27 to 29 June 2007. We...

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Croatia's EU accession: socio-economic assessment of farm households and policy recommendations

Moellers, Judith; Zier, Patrick; Frohberg, Klaus; … - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2009

investments rather than subsidies in rural development policy. The recommendations refer to two important policy fields: (1 … breeds and cowsheds. Also, investments will be needed for reaching EU hygiene standards in the coming years. This will put an … Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA), which co-finances farm investments and investments to upgrade community standards …

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Theoretical and methodological topics in the institutional economics of European agriculture. With applications to farm organisation and rural credit arrangements.

Petrick, Martin - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2008

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Rethinking agricultural reform in Ukraine

Lerman, Zvi; Sedik, David J.; Pugachov, Nikolai; … - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2007

Land reform and farm restructuring have always been a major component of the transition from plan to market in all formerly socialist countries, and especially in the 12 former Soviet republics forming the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Ukraine, the second most populous country in CIS...

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Credit rationing of Polish farm households. A theoretical and empirical analysis.

Petrick, Martin - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004

On the verge of EU accession, Polandâs agricultural sector is characterised by a number of distinct structural weaknesses, which are a major reason for the unsatisfactory income situation of rural households. Among these weaknesses are that farm productivity is substantially below EU standards,...

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Accessing rural finance: The rural financial market in Northern Vietnam

Dufhues, Thomas - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2007

Conjoint Analysis approach, which is a marketing research tool and combines quantitative and qualitative data in its analysis …

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Agriculture in the Western Balkan Countries

Volk, Tina; Rednak, Miroslav; Erjavec, Emil; Cela, Roland; … - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2010

The current publication covers Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99, the FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, and provides an overview of the agricultural situation in the European Union (EU) candidate and potential candidate countries of the Western Balkans (WBs)....

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Efficiency of selected risk management instruments. An empirical analysis of risk reduction in Kazakhstani crop production

Heidelbach, Olaf - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2007

Kazakhstanâs agricultural sector plays an important role in the country's economy. Not only does it function as an economic output producer, it also serves as a social buffer in times of transition to a market economy. The restructuring process had a strong impact on the economic performance of...

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