The objective of this research was to identify the variables that influence on organic food consumption. A survey was given to a non-probabilistic sample of 425 consumers in Talca and Curicó cities, Region of Maule. A binary logistic regression was performed to identify the main variables to...

The research test Alfred Marshall´s hypothesis that predicts less volatility in consumer prices in comparison to wholesale prices for Argentinean primary sector, using non parametric statistic. We also present recent developments in the primary sector that can explain rigidity and sustain...

The Chilean agricultural sector presents management problems, which indirectly affect their competitiveness and profitability. The objective of this work is to analysis the implementation process of Chilean Standard 2909 in middle units of cherry production in Curicó Province, Region Del Maule....

Olive growing is the main agricultural activity in Andalusia, although the systems used are far from homogenous. Indeed, technological and natural characteristics have led to the implementation of several growing systems. Our goal is to analyze the efficiency of the two most important systems in...

This study provides a decision framework to analyze optimal production diversification decisions under uncertainty for a farmer who is risk averse in the Arrow-Pratt sense and downside risk averse. The decision model accounts for the third central moment of the joint distribution of portfolio...

Este trabajo pretende identificar, en el contexto actual de crisis económica, los factores asociados a la resiliencia territorial en el medio rural andaluz. Para ello se ha diseñado una metodología que, aplicada en dos períodos de tiempo (2000-2008 y 2008-2012), permite, por una parte, y...

The JARE editorial team of Chris McIntosh, Hayley Chouinard, Greg Galinato, and Larry Makus began their three-year term with manuscript 2012-1233, submitted April 1, 2012. This report covers the period from June 1, 2012, through May 31, 2013. Publication details for the three issues published...

A framework is developed to examine organic crop insurance established by the Risk Management Agency (RMA). Given that the RMA links organic and conventional crop prices, the model is calibrated to reflect both markets to illustrate the impacts that pricing has on insurance coverage. Findings...

In this paper the results of trained and untrained sensory panels are compared on five Hungarian commercial sweet corn samples. The two evaluations were carried out in a sensory laboratory (ISO 6658:2005), with the same experimental design, with two replicates, and the panels consisted of 10...