The Barcelona Process (Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) celebrated its tenth anniversary witha Summit of Head of Governors in November 2005. A five-year work programme, agreed bythe partners, marks the renewed efforts to implement the objectives of the Euro-MediterraneanPartnership. One of the...

The EU recently completed negotiating a series of Association Agreements withMediterranean countries. Trade preferences for agricultural goods granted under theseAgreements, as well as under former arrangements, are analyzed by calculating the valueof preference margins at several stages in the...

An importexceeds a "normal" level. This paper identifies various internal and external factors that can contribute to the emergence of agricultural import surges in developing countries and discusses their relevance. External factors play a rather minor role. Internal policies, whether carried...

Negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) have been ongoing since2001, and progress has been slow most of the time. In July 2007 the chairman of theagricultural negotiating group, Crawford Falconer, presented draft modalities foragriculture (WTO, 2007) which document considerable...

Die in angewandten Simulationsmodellen weit verbreiteten isoelastischen Angebots- und Nachfragesysteme haben den Nachteil, daß sie nur sehr eingeschränkt auf globale Konsistenz mit bestimmten sich aus der ökonomischen Theorie ergebenden Bedingungen zu restringieren sind. In diesem Beitrag...

Turkey´s market for milk and dairyproducts is encountering growinginterest of international dairycompanies since discussions ofTurkey possibly entering the EU have becomemore serious in recent months. And there aregood reasons for being interested in theTurkish market. With more than 70...

Das Phänomen der Subsistenzlandwirtschaft hat in einigen mittel- und osteuropäischenLändern (MOEL) zum einen eine lange Tradition, zum anderen ist es durch die ökonomischeund soziale Transformation dieser Volkwirtschaften bedingt. Generell sinkt im Verlauf derökonomischen Entwicklung der...

A major drawback of constant elasticity supply and demand systems, which are widely used in simulation models for applied policy analysis, is that they can’t be restricted to globally comply with certain conditions implied by economic theory. This paper compares constant elasticity systems to...

Les futurs coûts associés au respect des standards obligatoires de protection des animaux de l’Union européenne pour la volaille et lesoeufs sont importants et pourraient mener au transfert de la production vers des pays tiers. Cet article compare systématiquement lespolitiques...

The economic, political and climatic conditions in which farmers around the world have tomake their production and investment decisions are changing dramatically. This studyanalyses the driving forces of changes in agricultural world markets and their implications forEuropean Union agriculture...