Abgepackte Öko-Lebensmittel müssen ab Juli 2010 mit dem neuen EU-Logo gekennzeichnet sein. In Deutschland gibt es seit vielen Jahren zahlreiche freiwillige Oko-Zertifizierungszeichen. Dieser Beitrag untersucht, wie Verbraucher Unterschiede zwischen den hinter den verschiedenen Kennzeichen...

Die (hohen) Preise für Öko-Lebensmittel werden von Verbrauchern in nahezu allen Befragungen als bedeutendster Grund angegeben, nicht mehr Öko-Lebensmittel zu kaufen. Bei näherer Betrachtung des auf den ersten Blick sehr einleuchtenden Arguments ergeben sich allerdings zahlreiche Fragen. Zum...

The classical problem of agricultural productivity measurement has regained interest due to recent price hikes in world food markets. At the same time, there is a new methodological debate on the appropriate identification strategies for addressing endogeneity and collinearity problems in...

A mobilisation of research, knowledge transfer and innovation to deal with the current challenges as raising world food demand while protecting natural resources is a priority area of the EU. The effective knowledge transfer and innovation activities in the agri-food supply chain may push all...

Agricultural countries usually produce multiple crops, but a particular area of land is allocated to the production of a certain crop. Understanding how producers make decision to allot acreage among crops and how decisions about land use are affected by changes in prices and their volatility is...

Within the last two decades, 40% of rangelands in Uzbekistan have been taken out of use due to non-functioning water facilities and pasture degradation. A retrospective study of rangeland production system development in the former Soviet Union (FSU) shows that the pasture land was used more...

Against the background of the Middle East conflict we study the role of social embeddedness of economic actors belonging to both conflicting parties for their perceptions of transaction problems and capabilities to solve them. Our analysis is based on a quantitative survey among Israeli food...

This poster discusses how different channels of speculation and affect food security in developing countries positively and negatively. As an overall assessment of the different trade-offs does not exist so far, we present a conceptual framework and some of its components to detect global price...

Technology and society share a close relationship, as the adoption of new technologies has consequences across value systems and institutions in society. Historically, the emergence of agriculture and subsequent technologies played an important role in shaping social relations. This paper...