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Herd growth, farm organisation and subsidies in the dairy sector of Russia and Kazakhstan
Petrick, Martin; Götz, Linde - In: Journal of Agricultural Economics 70 (2019) 3, pp. 789-811
Initially taken as a template for farm restructuring after the demise of collective agriculture, the ‘Western family farm model’ has taken root in the former Soviet countries only belatedly and incompletely. We examine dairy structures in Russia and Kazakhstan and analyse the drivers of...
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Проблемы и перспективы развития животноводства в Узбекистане
Naumov, Jurij; Pugač, Igor' - 2019
Livestock production accounts for 31 % of the total gross output of agriculture in Uzbekistan. This sector plays an important role in the generation of income of rural residents of the country, so the problems and prospects of its development are in the priority of agrarian policy in Uzbekistan....
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Views from the country road: A qualitative study on the landscape aesthetic perception of dairy barns in the region of the Osnabrück Region (northwestern Germany)
Dauermann, Angelika; Enneking, Ulrich - 2023
Aesthetic enjoyment and landscape beauty are increasingly recognized as significant attributes of cultural landscapes. Agriculture is an important integral part of the cultural landscape in many places. To date, however, there has been little research into the visual quality of agricultural...
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Produktionsökonomische Analyse von Tierwohlmaßnahmen in typischen Milchviehbetrieben Nordwestdeutschlands
Tergast, Hauke T. - 2023
Die Nutztierhaltung ist der bedeutendste Wirtschaftszweig der deutschen Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft. Mit einem Anteil von 22 Prozent am Produktionswert der Landwirtschaft hat die Milchproduktion eine besonders große wirtschaftliche Relevanz. Auf jedem fünften landwirtschaftlichen Betrieb...
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Verbesserung der Klimabilanzen landwirtschaftlicher Betriebe und der Beitrag der Digitalisierung
Fuchs, Clemens; Gütschow, Paul; Langosch, Rainer; … - In: HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 58 (2020) 1, pp. 83-101
Eine nachhaltige Landbewirtschaftung kann ihren Beitrag zum Klimaschutz leisten. Die internationalen Vereinbarungen zum Klimaschutz finden ihren Niederschlag in der EU-Politik, z. B. der Farm-to-Fork-Strategie. Die Digitalisierung kann eine wichtige Unterstützung für die notwendige Anpassung...
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Markups, organic agriculture and downstream concentration at the example of European dairy farmers
Koppenberg, Maximilian - In: Agricultural Economics 54 (2023) 2, pp. 161-178
A competitive environment, highly concentrated processing and retailing sectors as well as increasing decoupling of direct payments from production volumes and the area under cultivation incentivizes farmers to find alternative ways to improve their bargaining position towards downstream...
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Ende der Milchquote – Perspektiven und Ziele österreichischer Molkereien und MilchproduzentInnen
Schmid, Erwin; Larcher, Manuela; Schönhart, Martin; … - 2011
The phasing-out of the EU milk quota regime in 2015 challenges the Austrian milk sector and calls for its re-organization. Private raw milk management systems and contracts between milk producers and milk processors and traders will replace the national milk quota regime. The aim of the study is...
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Strategies and challenges of internationalisation in BRIC-countries: Empirical results from the German agribusiness
Heyder, Matthias; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2011
The objective of this paper is to identify the strategies and instruments that agribusiness companies currently use to … agribusiness firms. The majority of respondents expect that the importance of the markets in the BRIC countries will increase … agribusiness companies are facing in the context of handling international markets, especially in BRIC countries. …
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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector
Saenger, Christoph; Qaim, Matin; Torero, Maximo; … - 2012
In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...
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Impact of Third-Party Enforcement of Contracts in Agricultural Markets – A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Saenger, Christoph; Torero, Maximo; Qaim, Matin - 2013
We study the effect of alleviating information asymmetry regarding product quality that is widespread in developing-country agricultural markets. Opportunistic buyers may underreport quality levels back to farmers to reduce the price they have to pay. In response, farmers may curb investment,...
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