This study analyses the specific risks that organic farmers must manage. Due to the special features of management of their productive system, and due to the specific characteristics of their cultivations, they must face different risks than conventional farmers. Even if the Spanish farmers rely...

Este articulo trata de las consecuencias del cambio climatico para la agricultura del presente y del future. El problema fundamental del presente es la necesidad del sector agrario (entre otros) de reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero y de aumentar la capacidad para secuestrar...

Se analizan por medio de modelos econometricos, empleando datos de encuesta, los factores que explican la contratacion de seguros agrarios por parte de productores ecologicos. Los modelos logit y poisson revelan que aspectos y condicionantes como la percepcion que los agricultores dedicados a la...

Se analizan por medio de modelos econometricos, empleando datos de encuesta, los factores que explican la contratacion de seguros agrarios por parte de productores ecologicos. Los modelos logit y poisson revelan que aspectos y condicionantes como la percepcion que los agricultores dedicados a la...

The goal of this paper is to increase the capacity of the agriculture sector to understand and respond to the climate variability, by reducing the uncertainty of the farmers over decisions that are affected for meteorological conditions. To study the yield responses to meteorological variables...

The objective of this study is to provide a European assessment of the potential effects of climate change on agricultural crop production computing monetary estimates of these impacts for the European agricultural sector. The future scenarios incorporate socio economic projections derived from...

The objective of this study is to provide monetary estimates of the impacts of climate change in European agricultural sector. The future scenarios incorporate socio-economic projections derived from several socio-economic scenarios and experiments conducted using global climate models and...

One of the main problems of the European countries is their small capacity to generate employment. This is an important point because of the social and human problems that it produces, which are more serious in the case of the peripheral regions. In this paper, we make a comparative analysis of...