This study proposes an analysis to evaluate the effects on the future choices of the zootechnical entrepreneur in light of the new indications in the Ministerial Decree of the July 6, 2012 "Execution of Art. 24 of the legislative decree 3 March 2011, no. 28 establishing incentives for the...

Based on a four-year panel dataset of households collected in rural Pakistan, we examine the impact of an intervention on households’capacity to reduce income losses due to attacks by wild boars. A local NGO implemented the intervention as a randomized controlled trial at the beginning of the...

A tanulmány második részében az üzemnagyság és a mérethozadék problémáját vesszük szemügyre. A rendelkezésre álló empirikus eredmények nem támasztják egyértelműen alá a mérethozadék létét a mezőgazdaságban. A mérethozadék méré sével kapcsolatban felmerülő...

The constraints of the Nitrates Directive have significant effects on the farms in terms of future investments, work organization and costs increase, with significant impacts, in Italy, on dairy cattle farms. The aim of this work is to evaluate the economic and managerial impacts of adaptation...

The aim of the research is to contribute to the experimentation of methodologies for cost effectiveness and economic sustainability assessment concerning investments in agri-food sector, and testing the applicability of the method to supply chains of minor produces. Elaborations have been made...

This paper investigates determinants of agricultural sector efficiency in ten new member states (NMS-10) of the European Union (EU) from Central and Eastern European countries by the non-parametric method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the panel data analysis. The agricultural sector...

Commercial cattle farming in Namibia, a prime example of livestock farming in semi-arid rangelands, is subject to a variety of risks, predominant among which is precipitation risk. At the same time it suffers from rangeland degradation that is at least partly due to inadequate management. We...

El diseño y la ejecución de un modelo agroempresarial sostenible, en procesos de desarrollo agropecuario y rural, tiene relaciones en un contexto global y holístico con ejes productivos, económicos, sociales, administrativos y ambientales, entre otros, enmarcados en un contexto circundante....

La pérdida de importancia económica de la caficultura en Colombia, tanto en el contexto nacional como en el internacional, se explica, principalmente, por la caída dramática de su productividad; el consiguiente empobrecimiento de los caficultores, así como por el envejecimiento de estos y de...

El derretimiento y retroceso de los glaciares colombianos reducen la oferta de agua, afectando al sector agrícola, responsable del 10-14% del PIB colombiano. Utilizando juegos económicos experimentales estudiamos las decisiones sobre el uso del agua y la respuesta a instituciones que facilitan...