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Organic farming practices have environmental benefits compared to conventional ones. Their adoption is the result of a complex interaction of intrinsic attitudes of farmers, their profit expectations and farm policy incentives. We use an agricultural sector model and develop an extended version...
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Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for community...
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The paper investigates spatial changes in cultivation and land use of wheat, maize and oilseed in Hungarian agriculture using different methods to measure these changes. The results suggest that spatial structure of crop productions has remained fairly stable during analysed period. The spatial...
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products with revealed comparative advantages in the EU markets for Hungary and to a lesser extent for Croatia, but have not … identified any such aggregated agro-food product group for Slovenia. Yet, also Hungary and Croatia have faced difficulties in … comparative trade advantages in consumer-ready foods and processed intermediaries. Agro-food sectors in Hungary are likely to …
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The paper describes a two stage model of Hungarian households' food demand. Demand for the food aggregate is represented by a Working-Leser type single equation model while demand for seven distinct food types is modelled in a complete demand system using the LA/AIDS functional form. Estimation...
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different stages of the agri-food chain in Hungary. The assessment is mainly based on a classification of farms and processors … investments in buildings, milking and cooling facilities and delivery trucks. The raw milk quality in Hungary has steadily … Beitrag wird der Teil des acquis communautaire betrachtet, der für den Milchsektor in Ungarn von Bedeutung ist. Für …
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European Union accession threaten the survival of traditional home gardens in Hungary's transitional economy. This paper … data collected in three environmentally sensitive areas of Hungary where pilot agri-environmental programmes have been …
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wage hike that took place in Hungary in 2001 reveals that households who appear to benefit from it actually experienced a …
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Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
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inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is good reason to investigate this issue in Hungary. We then report on …
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