Infrastructure systems and services (ISS) are vulnerable to changes in climate. This paper reports on a study of the impact of gradual climate changes on ISS in Hamilton City, New Zealand. This study is unique in that it is the first of its kind to be applied to New Zealand ISS. This study also...

As a consequence of global changes to trade policy, there are likely to be significant impacts on international agricultural trade. Clearly producers in the European Union (EU) will experience considerable changes to the structure of their industry, and for a country such as New Zealand, heavily...

This study seeks to identify interproduct relationships between domestic catfish and a representative selection of imported seafood. In doing so, this study uses multivariate cointegration and structural analyses. Multivariate cointegration analysis suggests that six imported seafood product...

The article deals with the issues of direct farm payments scheme aimed at an equalization of their level between Polish producers and those in the EU-12 or EU-15 countries. Such politically based view has been recently propagated in Poland. An analytical, theoretical and empirical approach is...

A growing interest in agrarian issues has been identified on the international level since 2006. The main reason for this change in approach to agriculture is a rise in the world food prices and the limitation of economic and physical access to food (mainly for food net importing countries)....

This paper investigates the possible development of Ukrainian agriculture in terms of creation of a free trade area (FTA) with the European Union. Prospects for export-import relations between Ukraine and the EU as well as the competitiveness of domestic agricultural goods in domestic and...

The aim of the study is to find the answer to the question of how the Common Agricultural Policy aims to achieve optimality at the micro and macro levels, while taking into account social and environmental criteria. The authors wish to draw attention to the problem of ‘composition error’ in...

The EU and the US launched negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in July 2013. Among the TTIP aims, there are negotiable terms under which the EU would import more genetically modified (GM) products and change its labeling regulations on GM Organisms (GMOs)....

En este artículo se analizan dos aspectos centrales de las agriculturas del Sur de Europa. En primer lugar, en comparación con el panorama de los países del Norte de la Unión Europea, se pone de manifiesto, como diferenciadora, la diversidad de formas de articulación de las explotaciones y...