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Development of food industry in Poland in the years 1998-2007
Gradziuk, Katarzyna - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 06 (2009) 21
The article presents processes of development in the Polish food industry which took place in the years 1998-2007. The aim of the paper is to investigate the impact of investments in food industry on structural transformations in two periods: that of pre-accession and the other of integration...
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INFLUENCE OF THE INTEGRATION OF AGROHOLDINGS WITH RUSSIAN FARMS ON TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY AND ITS SUBCOMPONENTS
Hahlbrock, Konstantin; Hockmann, Heinrich - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
The impact of group affiliation to agroholdings on enterprise performance in terms of productivity and efficiency is … efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Russia. The underlying research question of this paper is therefore whether farms that … productivity (TFP) and technical efficiency scores for the two categories of independent farms and members of agroholdings. In this …
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Desarrollo del mercado de productos de la agricultura ecologica en Europa: un analisis de sus condiciones y del papel de las iniciativas comerciales
Schmid, Otto; Fontguyon, Guy De; Sans, Pierre - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2007) 214
Esta contribucion presenta los principales resultados de un programa de investigacion europeo titulado Iniciativas COmerciales en agriculture ecologica y desarrollo rural. En una primera parte se presenta el comportamiento de los consumidores, sus valores y expectatovas, asi como los motivos y...
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How the East Was Won: Supply Chain Restructuring in the Eastern European Beer Market
Van Herck, Kristine; Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Deconinck, Koen - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 61 (2012) 4
Like all markets in the former communist countries, the Eastern European beer market has been strongly affected by the economic reforms in the beginning of the 1990s. In the first years after reforms, there was a substantial decline in the production of barley, malt and beer. However, the...
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Commodity Price Pass-Through in Differentiated Retail Food Markets
Richards, Timothy J.; Allender, William J.; Pofahl, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but...
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Too Connected to Fail: The Effect of Alliance Network Structure on Farm Survival
Kirwan, Barrett E.; Martens, Andrea - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
Exogenous, unobserved factors often confound the effects of alliance networks. More capable farmers might be less likely to exit and more likely to have a large number of alliances. In this case the negative correlation between alliance network size and exit likelihood is due to the unobserved...
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Structural Change in the Meat and Poultry Industry and the Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Rule
Ollinger, Michael - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
This paper uses plant-level micro-data covering the 1987-2002 and a translog cost function to estimate long-run costs in the meat and poultry industry in order to evaluate the impact of the Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Rule on cattle, hog and chicken slaughter and...
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Productivity and farm size in Australian agriculture: reinvestigating the returns to scale
Sheng, Yu; Zhao, Shiji; Nossal, Katarina - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
Higher productivity among large farms is often assumed to be a result of increasing returns to scale. However, using farm-level data for the Australian broadacre industry, it was found that constant or mildly decreasing returns to scale is more typical. On examining the monotonic change in...
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National, Regional, and State-Level Estimates of Returns to Scale in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
Baral, Ranju; Davis, George C.; You, Wen - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 45 (2013) 02
The effectiveness of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program in achieving its goals at the national, regional, and state level is unknown. Using US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data from all states and territories for the years 2000–2006, the impact of program and...
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THE RELEVANCE OF TRACEABILITY IN THE FOOD CHAIN
Ene, Corina - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 60 (2013) 2
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