Deutschland ist der größte Milchproduzent in der EU, wobei ein Schwerpunkt der deutschen Milchproduktion in Niedersachsen liegt. Vor dem Hintergrund des Quotenausstiegs ist es für alle Teilnehmer der Wertschöpfungskette Milch von großem Interesse, wie sich die Milchproduktion in...

An empirically-based approach was developed to forecast the use of family labour, external labour, contractors and off-farm work in the agentbased sector model SWISSland. The forecast was based on a two-phase procedure. In the first phase, a Bayesian network was used to estimate the agents’...

In den kommenden Jahren ändern sich wesentliche Rahmenbedingungen für die Almwirtschaft in Österreich, insbesondere als Folge der Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik und dem Ende der EU-Milchquotenregelung. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert die vorliegende Studie die ökonomischen...

This paper develops the hypothesis that the level of growth or decline of small family farms is strongly connected to the farms’ succession process. Around the process of intra-family succession, both disinvestment in cases of farm abandonment or conversion to part-time farming and investment...

The question of farm size has long been a concern in the agricultural economics literature. The observation of a long-lasting persistence of so-called small farms drew the attention of numerous researchers. The size of farms is often approximated by the farm area in hectares or the added value...

In this paper, the effects of financing of agricultural holdings in new member states of the EU and the development of these holdings are assessed. The income of a family-owned agricultural holding was accepted as the basic measure of a holding’s capability for extended reproduction and...

The origin of agricultural products is gaining in appreciation while often hard to determine for various reasons. Geographical origin may be resolved using a combination of chemical and physical analytical technologies. In the present case of Lily of the Valley (<i>Convallaria majalis</i>) rhizomes, we...

Subsistence Bhutanese farmers spread across different agro-ecological zones maintain large species and varietal diversity of different crops in their farm. However, no studies have been undertaken yet to assess why farmers conserve and maintain large agro-biodiversity, the extent of...

Yeryüzü’nün ekolojik sisteminde iklim değişikliği nedeni ile ortaya çıkan değişmeler ile tarımsal ürün talebindeki artışların neden olduğu olumsuz etkiler hem Türkiye’de hem de Dünya’da tarım ürünleri piyasalarında dengesizlik eğilimlerini artırmıştır. Bu...

This paper uses directional distance functions to extend the non-parametric metafrontier approach to efficiency measurement proposed by OÕDonnell et al. (2008) to the assessment of technological differences in eco-efficiency between groups of producers. Furthermore, eco-efficiency is assessed...