Commodity value chains have undergone tremendous changes in the past decades.Private traders, retailers and food processing companies increasingly contract withfarms and rural households to whom they provide inputs and services in return forguaranteed and quality supplies.However, due to a...

Agricultural insurance in Ukraine is mostly offered on the basis of traditional products includingPMCI, named perils and single peril coverage. The index concept was introduced in 2001 thoughuntil 2005 the insurance companies provided index crop insurance through area-based yield indexprogram....

The performance of over 500 North Dakota farms, 2005-2006, is summarized using 16 financial measures. Farms are categorized by geographic region, farm type, farm size, gross cash sales, farm tenure, net farm income, debt-to-asset, and age of farmer to analyze relationships between financial...

Since World War II there has been a rapid increase in the area sown to improved pastures in Australia generally and New South Wales in particular. Despite this increase there has been much speculation as to the reasons why even more country has not been improved, especially as spectacular...

In Western Europe, USA and other developed countries agriculture is dominated by small familyfarms. In Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) and Former Soviet Union (FSU) dualstructure of farms exists. There are large corporate farms (CF) and small family farms (FF) inCEEC and FSU. Our...

A number of studies have tested economic models of household decision-making, yet there is no consensus regarding which is most appropriate for practical application. One area where the choice of household decision model has potentially important implications is the valuation of child health or...

The adoption of organic production has increased dramatically over recent years, especially in less developed countries. However, little information is available about who adopts, the difficulties they face in converting and how these factors vary over time. Using small-scale avocado producers...

This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing...

Presently the behavioral features of the organic producers could be concluded as the fact that they are quite confident of the prospects for organic agriculture, while heavily dependent on the guidance and support of the local governments; are in great demand for technological innovation, while...

In our paper, we briefly discuss the outlook for the main agricultural sectors in Hungary until 2013, and present some of the latest results of our modelling work at the Research Institute for Agricultural Economics (AKI). In addition, we provide a short methodological overview ofthe applied...