The promotion of oil palm production as an agribusiness development policy is a major issue in response to the increasing demand of palm oil in the Philippines. This paper focused on oil palm production cooperatives composed of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) as members who were granted the...

The land grabbing issue has produced a plethora of debates ranging from ethical conduct of land grabbing agents, specifically concerning displacement, to evidence for and against positive externalities such as technological spill-overs and construction of infrastructure. An underexplored topic...

The 2003 CAP Reform left EU member states much room for national implementation. The farm group model EU-FARMIS is applied to quantify the effects of the reform and the impacts of the options for national implementation. The analysis is done for France and Germany because their implementation...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine semi-parametrischer Matching-Ansatz (Propensity Score Matching) verwendet, um den Effekt von Agrarumweltprogrammen, der Aus-gleichszulage für benachteiligte Gebiete sowie der Ausgleichszahlung für Gebiete mit umweltspezifischen Einschränkungen auf den...

First World politicians ascribe an exceptionally high social value to the well-being of domestic farmers, apparently without being penalized by political setbacks. In the European Community (EC) , they fix domestic prices on most agricultural commodities above world market prices, sustain these...