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tion from agricultural sources. However, many other EU member states are creating the necessary conditions for rapid growth in this area. The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), which sets payments over a long time period for electricity supplied from renewa-ble sources, often serves as a...
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Agriculture has always been exposed to a wide spectrum of risks. But it is largely undisputed that farmers have faced growing risks in recent years. More volatile agricultural and input prices, climate change, ongoing discussions about the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, increasing...
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Das Management von Sportbranchen unterteilt seine Zielmärkte in Zuschauer-, Sportler- und spezifische Folgemärkte (NUFER & BÜHLER 2010: 12). Für die Galopprennbranche werden im vorliegenden Beitrag der Sportlermarkt mit den dazugehörigen Akteuren zunächst hinsichtlich Struktur und...
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Across Europe, Germany is the most important country in the production and consumption of Christmas trees. Pricing is cyclically asserved and depends mainly on the number of mature trees and on the potential occurrence of calamities caused by hail and late frost in the early summer. Due to the...
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The indication of country of origin on food products is of growing importance and offers potentials for product differentiation to, among others, cacao producers from countries in the developing and transition stages. In this study the importance of country-of-origin (CoO) effects on the quality...
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Increasingly, cooperatives in the agribusiness are being confronted with the globalization of agri-food markets. Cooperatives adapt to this development by internationalizing their activities. This paper presents a method of measuring the degree of internationalization (DoI) and its application...
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In recent years the organization of meat supply chains has been among the most animatedly discussed topics in agriculture and the food industry. Many authors hypothesize that contracts and vertical integration are paramount for the future competitiveness of meat production. But most arguments do...
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Der Einsatz von Gentechnik zur Lebensmittelproduktion wird weltweit sehr unterschiedlich gehandhabt. Während in der neuen Welt großflächiger GVO-Anbau stattfindet, wird grüne Gentechnik in Europa aufgrund ihrer dort niedrigen gesellschaftlichen Legitimität in wesentlich geringerem Umfang...
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Es hat in der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der Europäischen Union (GAP) seit 1992 zahlreiche mehr oder weniger erfolgreiche Reformschritte gegeben, die die gemeinsame Agrarpolitik generell liberalisiert, ihre Budget-Kosten reduziert und die handels- und produktionsverzerrenden Wirkungen abgebaut...
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[...] Die Einführung von Direktzahlungen zur Kompensation von Interventionspreissenkungen war ursprünglich eine wichtige Voraussetzung für die fundamentalen Reformen der GAP seit 1992, auch um Bestandsschutz für die im Vertrauen auf das politische Versprechen hoher Agrarpreise getätigten...
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