Der Gemüsebau ist in Deutschland die gartenbauliche Produktionssparte sowohl mit der größten Anbaufläche als auch mit der höchsten Bruttowertschöpfung. Im Jahr 2015 wurden über 114.800 ha Gemüse im Freiland angebaut. Der jährliche Pro-Kopf-Verbrauch von Gemüse ist in den letzten...

With the modernization of global agri-food systems, the role of contract farming is increasing. This also involves smallholder farmers in developing countries. While previous studies have looked at economic impacts of contract schemes on smallholder farmers, little is known about farmers'...

In this paper, we evaluate the short term impact of a Fruit Fly Eradication Program in the coastal areas of Peru. Exploiting arbitrary variation in the program's intervention borders, as well as precise geographic location data of farmer's households, we use a Geographical Regression...

Using nationally representative data from repeated cross section surveys conducted in 2011/12, 2013/14, and 2016/17, we test for separability in the household model and analyse household factor market participation in Afghanistan. Estimates of a household labour demand model and tests for...

Agricultural commodity markets in developing countries are characterized by high transaction costs and risks that reduce trade flows among spatial markets. In this article, we examine whether institutionalized agricultural commodity exchange markets reduce transaction costs and hence spatial...

It is often assumed that voluntary sustainability standards - such as Fairtrade - could not only improve the socioeconomic wellbeing of smallholder farmers in developing countries but could also help to reduce negative health and environmental impacts of agricultural production. The empirical...

In the existing literature, the effects of contract farming on household welfare were examined with mixed results. Most studies looked at single contract types. This paper contributes to the literature by comparing two types of contracts - simple marketing contracts and resource-providing...

Value chain development (VCD) has become a popular policy instrument to help farmers in developing countries access markets. While VCD initiated by the private sector has received much attention in the literature, there is yet little research on public-led VCD. This paper pro-vides a...

The paper intends to examine the effects of the accession to the European Union on Romania's cereal sector, in the period 2007-2016, in terms of evolution of areas cultivated with wheat and maize, production in volume and value terms, consumption and self-sufficiency, exports and imports, as...

The recent renaissance of the Senegalese cooperative movement coupled with the revival of the agricultural sector motivated this study, which mainly aims to analyse the impact of farmer-based organization membership on household land productivity and net income. We combined the Propensity Score...