Cross-border trade in food commodities within sub-regional economic blocks in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) is believed to be faster, cheaper, more convenient and welfare-enhancing than overseas trade between SSA countries and the USA, EU and the BRIC countries. The difficulty of commodity arbitrage...

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food production. A partial equilibrium model of a national economy with two sectors and two regions, one of which includes a residual forest, is developed. It analyses how an exogenous...

Wheat price forecasts are very important for traders, farmers and politicians as well. However, only quite accurate price predictions can guide these groups towards making the best decisions. Therefore the well-known wheat price projections of both the OECD and the FAPRI from 1996 on are tested...

We investigate the price dynamics of two illiquid agricultural futures contracts traded at the European Exchange in Frankfurt. Based on constant and time-varying vector error correction models, we measure the contribution of each futures market to price discovery. Although results from the...

The main purpose of this study is to present and analyze a number of technical and economic indicators of Romanian agriculture during 2005-2016. The main indicators monitored are the land fund development, area and crop production, livestock and livestock production, number of agricultural...

Agriculture is an important economic sector in all countries, being the main source of food for the population and a major supplier of raw materials for the manufacturing and export industries. Maize (Zea mays L.) is the most important crop in Romania as harvested area. Its expansion is due both...

The agriculture has represented an important source of food for mankind since the ancient times. Romania is a country that has fertile soils and a climate that offers favorable conditions for agriculture. These conditions can also be found in the Oltenia S-W Region where the agriculture...

The relationship between farm size and land productivity has been widely debated in literature for decades and several reasons and explanations for the inverse relationship between farm size and land productivity .The paper presents the evolution of areas under vegetables by size classes and...

In this paper, it is desirable to determine the influence of production and consumption of grapes on the price in Romania. In order to determine this influence, the areas cultivated with grapes, the production of grapes, as well as their consumption in the last years, will be analyzed. With the...

Romania has been particularly interested in rice culture since the 1930s through culture and biology technology, which has made it possible to capitalize less productive land productivity on other crops. In the present study we will analyze the technical indicators of the cultivated area and the...