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Managing Risk in Farming: Concepts, Research, and Analysis
Harwood, Joy L.; Heifner, Richard G.; Coble, Keith H.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1999
, a more sophisticated understanding of risk and risk management is important to help producers make better decisions in … risky situations and to assist policymakers in assessing the effectiveness of different types of risk protection tools. In … response, this report provides a rigorous, yet accessible, description of risk and risk management tools and strategies at the …
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Modelling the adoption of automatic milking systems in Noord-Holland
Floridi, Matteo; Bartolini, Fabio; Peerlings, Jack; … - In: Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal (2013) 1
Innovation and new technology adoption represent two central elements for the business and industry development process in agriculture. One of the most relevant innovations in dairy farms is the robotisation of the milking process through the adoption of Automatic Milking Systems (AMS). The...
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Assessing the CAP influence on European farmers’ preferences towards the adoption of renewable energy production.
Giannoccaro, Giacomo; Bartolini, Fabio; Raggi, Meri; … - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2013
Despite a large literature about energy production from renewable resources, the specific interplay between farm characteristics, market, local regulation and the CAP in the adoption of energy-related technologies by farmers is still poorly studied. This paper aims at analyzing the farmers’...
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Effects of a flat rate introduction: shifts in farm activity and impact on farmers' income
Marchand, Fleur L.; Buysse, Jeroen; Campens, V.; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
Current thoughts on CAP changes, e.g. the "Health Check", emphasize the necessity to move away from payments based on historical receipts towards a "flatter rate" system. The aim of current research is to simulate the impact of a flat rate system (equal payments per hectare of cultivated land)...
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CAP REFORM AND THE EFFECTS OF DIRECT PAYMENTS ON HETEROGENEOUS FARM STRUCTURES IN EAST GERMANY
Zier, Patrick; Petrick, Martin - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2010
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The impact of reforming the Common Agricultural Policy on the sustainability of the irrigated area of Central Italy. An empirical assessment by means of a Positive Mathematical Pro...
Cortignani, Raffaele; Severini, Simone - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a major driver of the environmental and social sustainability of the agriculture in the European Union (EU). Under the 2003 CAP reform, most direct payments to agricultural producers were decoupled from production. This work assesses the possible impact of...
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CAP effects on labour use in agriculture: Evidence from alternative dynamic panel data models
Petrick, Martin; Zier, Patrick - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Our aim is to investigate whether the direct payments and rural development measures of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) do make jobs in agriculture safer. We work with a dynamic labour demand equation that is augmented by the full set of policy instruments of the CAP. It is estimated...
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Modelling Organic Farming at Sector Level An Application to the Reformed CAP in Austria
Schmid, Erwin; Sinabell, Franz - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
We analyse whether the 2003 CAP reform and the anticipated new program of rural development will lead to an expansion 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...
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WINNERS AND LOSERS OF POLICY CHANGES – WHAT IS THE ROLE OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE?
Sahrbacher, Christoph; Kellermann, Konrad; Balmann, Alfons - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
In this paper several decoupling options are evaluated concerning their impact on structural change especially on farm incomes and their surviving. Therefore, the agent-based model AgriPoliS was used and extended to account the income of leaving farms. This enables the comparison of future...
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Spatial differences in the level of absorption of Common Agricultural Policy funds by agricultural holdings in Poland over the years 2004-2006
Rudnicki, Roman - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 10 (2010) 25
The article offers a territorial analysis of funds acquired by Polish agricultural holdings in the years 2004-2006 via direct payments and through participation in measures of the Rural Development Programme and the Sectoral Operational Programme ‘Restructuring and Modernisation of the Food...
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