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productivity in organic and conventional agriculture in the period from 1999/2000 to 2006/07. Productivity development is assessed … a conventional counterpart with similar structural features. The study reveals a similar development of productivity in … organic grazing livestock and mixed farms, but the productivity level is still lower compared to their conventional …
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Basierend auf Daten einer deutschen und einer Schweizer Kontrollstelle wird das Risiko des Auftretens von Verstößen gegen die EU-Ökolandbauverordnung bzw. gegen den Bio Suisse-Standard ökonometrisch untersucht. Ausgehend von der Economics of Crime-Theorie werden zunächst Hypothesen zu...
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The aim of this paper is to elicit the sensitivity of farmers to payments for agro-environmental services in a context of strong agro-ecological and policy constraints. We present results from a choice experiment survey performed among the whole population of agricultural decision-makers (104)...
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the literature, the economics and profitability of various plant nutrient management strategies–both conventional and … considerable promise as alternative nutrient management strategies for increasing farm profitability. A cover crop system produced …
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better environment-saving technologies will further increase profitability. Also market changes may promote this process … efficiency and profitability of production are very low, several sectors can be operated with loss only. …
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Replaced with revised version of paper 05/26/11.
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The conversion to organic farming has proven to be an economically interesting alternative for a large portion of the converted farms in the past. This contribution will consider the question of which factors influence the success of organic farming. The basis for the study is a series of data...
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and financial sustainability of organic farming respect to conventional farming. The higher profitability of organic … price respect to conventional prices. Moreover, greater profitability of organic farming and use of environmentally friendly …
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This paper explores innovations in index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) as a means to address important insurance market imperfections that have precluded the emergence and sustainability of formal insurance markets in developing countries, where uninsured natural disaster risk remains a...
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