This article draws mostly (but not entirely) on new institutional economics to consider the likely behaviours of non-government conservation organizations and the implications of these behaviours for biodiversity conservation. It considers how institutional factors may result in behaviour of...

The agricultural policy in Spain has been involved in substantial changes which have implied some adjustments on the levels of support and its instruments. After the “Mid Term Review” of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) more and more of its instruments are applied with varied intensity...

Die Verteilungswirkungen der Europäischen Agrarpolitik (GAP) sind in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in den Fokus des wissenschaftlichen und politischen Interesses getreten, insbesondere seitdem soziale und wirtschaftliche Kohäsion zu einem zentralen Ziel der europäischen Politik erklärt...

Changes in global food prices have affected EU producers and consumers and have triggered policy reactions through the EU.s political process. In particular, the EU and member states responded by social policies to protect their consumers, attempts to reg

This paper aims at evaluating the impact of the 2003/2005 CAP reform on farm production choices. The outcome of "market orientation" is measured by considering both the short-term production choices and the long-term investment decisions. The Treatment Effect (TE) is estimated through...

The paper deals with monitoring of a height, a structure and impact of supports in frame of exercitation of EU CAP on income from operations of selected Czech agricultural enterprises. The selection of enterprises has been implemented on base of differentness in the enterprise form, in the...

The Common Agricultural Policy of the EU influences the agriculture in production but also in different functions as there are the function of resource protection, recreation, landscape diversity and spatial structuring. Especially in a comparison of regions on both side of the farmer Iron...

This paper completes the comparative analysis of the investment demand behaviour, of a sample of specialised arable crop farms, for farm buildings and machinery and equipment, as a function of the different types and levels of Common Agricultural Policy support, in selected European Union Member...

The paper develops a comparative analysis, among selected European Union Member States, of the investment demand, for farm buildings and machinery and equipment, of a sample of specialised arable crop farms as determined - inter alia - by different types and levels of Common Agricultual Policy...