The central thesis developed in this paper is that snapshot views of the global measures of agricultural support mask what is really happening in U.S. and E.U. agricultural policies. We demonstrate that American and European farmers are effectively protected from market risk by these policies....

A számítások rendkívül pozitív képet mutatnak a mezőgazdaság jövedelme-zőségéről 2004-ben, az újonnan csatlakozó országok mindegyikében. A jövede-lemnövekedés hátterében egyrészt a nagyobb átlaghozamok állnak – melyek a rendkívül kedvező időjárási feltételeknek...

Social capital matters in determining a person’s or a family’s material well-being. It is argued that social capital functions similar to the traditional production factors. However, there are not many empirical analyses looking into this hypothesis at the farm-household level in...

This paper provides an analysis of socio-economic characteristics and their influence on farm and non-farm incomes of rural households in Slovenia. With the canonical correlation analysis we use a methodological approach that offers a true multivariate procedure for both sides of the equation....