The reform-process towards a higher world-market orientation has a long tradition in Chile, with all its strengths and weaknesses. The food processing industry is highly competitive on the worldmarket. The following paper investigates the technical efficiency of the Chilean food processing...

The "Greening" measures of the EU's CAP, implemented in 2015, have been intensively debated in terms of their effectiveness and efficiency for agricultural, environmental, and climate outcomes. This study explores the fine-scale spatiotemporal dynamics of Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) (with a...

The article describes the reform path of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) since 1992. The largest share of agricultural subsidies in Germany (€7.2 billion) is granted through the CAP with significant room for manoeuvre in terms of content. Between 1992-2013, the old, protectionist...

[...] Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Ökolandbau in den Ländern vermehrt vorkommt, in denen ein höherer Anteil mäßig bis sehr gute Bodenqualitäten vorhanden ist. Mit einer eingängigen Schätzung konnte gezeigt werden, dass kein statistisch gesicherter Zusammenhang zwischen der Ökofl äche...