Today the European agrofood sector is increasingly confronted with the threatsas well as the opportunities of liberalizing markets. Therefore, competitiveness on globalmarkets is becoming of paramount importance for European farmers. The challenges ofglobal markets are accompanied by a growing...

In Flanders glasshouse vegetables andornamental plants are typically produced at familybusinesses. At this type of businesses the objectives andlong-term firm developments are influenced by the socalled ‘family-firm life cycle’. In many cases the firmshows a life cycle that corresponds with...

European farmers face increasing income uncertainty and the debate is growing on the role of insurance schemes and of public support in this field. This debate is further stimulated by the perspective of introducing instruments to cope with risk also in the Common Agricultural Policy. Therefore,...

As informações se restringem cada vez mais em poder de menos pessoas ocasionando uma disparidade nautilização das praticas administrativas. O setor agrícola constantemente tem sofrido com esta situação, pois osmicros e pequenos empresários dificilmente conseguem acompanhar tais mudanças...

In the present study, CDM host countries are classified according to their attractiveness for CDM non-sink projects. A cluster analysis is conducted based on three different factors determining host country attractiveness (mitigation potential, institutional CDM capacity and general investment...

This paper examines the empirical evidence of a theoretical economic model of the effect of labor organization on IPM adoption developed by Beckmann and Wes seler (2003). We use cross section data collected from the participatory farming system survey of 150 durian growers in Chanthaburi,...

Bioeconomic farm models have been very instrumental in capturing the technical aspects of human-nature interactions and in highlighting the economic consequences of resource use changes. They may elucidate the tradeoffs that farm households face in crop choice and farming practices, assess the...

In this paper we are investigating how production risk may influence the way a risk averse producer like a subsistence farmer chooses optimal input levels. Risk averse producers will take into account both the mean and the variance of output, and therefore we expect them to choose input levels...

The paper provides an empirical study of the dynamics of ownership changes in Czech agricultural companies, which are assigned by unique heterogeneity in ownership forms. Since employee ownership has retained a relatively important place in these structures, neoclassical, as well as...

O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi estimar custos e lucro líquido nas etapas de campo (incluindo a elaboração de cera de origem) do extrativismo da carnaúba. A coleta dos dados ocorreu ao longo dos anos de 2005 e 2006, por meio de entrevistas abertas e observação de campo, ocasião em...