Weather index-based crop insurance is increasingly becoming important as a risk mitigation strategy that farmers may use to mitigate adverse climate shocks and natural disasters encountered during farming. Whi...
Authors: William M. Fonta, Safietou Sanfo, Abbi M. Kedir and Djiby R. Thiam
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2018
6:11
This study evaluated determinants of food insecurity in the rural farm households of the Teleyayen sub-watershed in Ethiopia. The study used a multistage sampling procedure to select 215 sample households invo...
Authors: Alem-meta Assefa Agidew and K. N. Singh
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2018
6:10
In the international scene, country-of-origin labelling (COOL) is a controversial issue. We aim at defining criteria for the country-of-origin marking COOL for processed foods and figure out the effect of COOL...
This paper identifies the factors that affect farmers’ decision to participate in a dairy hub. It also examines the impacts of dairy hub participation on rural household welfare measured by farm yields and net...
This paper analyzes the effects of education on farm productivity in the case of growers of modern and traditional varieties of paddy in Odisha, Eastern India. Using an endogenous switching regression model, t...
Authors: Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh and Phanindra Goyari
Olive oil markets, both traditional and new ones, are changing rapidly with vertical as well as horizontal differentiation that increasingly play a role in featuring demand and supply. The paper explores the r...
Authors: Anna Carbone, Luca Cacchiarelli and Valentina Sabbatini
Factors influencing consumers’ perception of environmental effects of organic agriculture, and health benefits and consumption of organic vegetables were determined using linear regression analyses of primary ...
This study investigates the factors affecting the inter-organizational relationships and governance of firms in agri-food supply chains and assesses the influence that the current conditions of vertical coordi...
This article analyzes the impact of participation in off-farm activities on technical efficiency of maize production in eastern Ethiopia. We combined propensity score matching with a stochastic production fron...
Authors: Musa Hasen Ahmed and Kumilachew Alamerie Melesse
Globalization-driven food trade policies and the transformations of food regimes have led to modernizing food habits and the growing substitution of traditional foods by introduced/industrialized foods in the ...
Authors: Barthelemy G. Honfoga, Gervais N’tandou-Bonzitou, Raymond S. Vodouhè, Mauricio R. Bellon and Joseph D. Hounhouigan
Gender differences in fish processors’ willingness to pay for a group-owned fish solar tent dryer (FSTD) are being assessed by using the double hurdle model. Willingness to pay (WTP) responses from 382 randoml...
Authors: Levison S. Chiwaula, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Lucy S. Binauli, James Banda and Joseph Nagoli
Sustainable feed formulation (defined here as nutritional and economic feed optimization) is substantial in feed chain production from crop farmers to livestock producers. Diet formulation employing a static l...
Authors: Othman Alqaisi, Oghaiki Asaah Ndambi and Ryan Blake Williams
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:25
The purpose of this paper is to identify the main factors affecting the consumption of avocado fruit among Italian consumers. In order to respond to the aim of the study, an empirical survey was conducted thro...
Authors: Giuseppina Migliore, Vittorio Farina, Salvatore Tinervia, Giovanni Matranga and Giorgio Schifani
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:24
The aim of the paper is to analyze how the dynamic capabilities of the wine industry actors, involved in searching for biodiversity, influence and are influenced by the dyadic buyer–supplier relationship. In p...
Authors: Piermichele La Sala, Raffaele Silvestri and Francesco Contò
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:23
Our paper explores how participants of voluntary transparency systems react to the cancellation of such programmes. We concern ourselves with participants of the voluntary transparency scheme known as the “Nor...
Authors: Anica Veronika Fietz and Sven Grüner
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:22
Consumer preferences about locally grown foods have been studied principally as they concern meals consumed in the home, while knowledge about consumptions outside the home is still fragmented. Studying the re...
Marketing outlets choice is one of the most important farm household decisions to sell their produce and has a great impact on household income. Though the study area has great potential of honey production, t...
Authors: Kassa Tarekegn, Jema Haji and Bosena Tegegne
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:20
This study aims at assessing if benefits, based on the economic performance of farms operating in an agro-food supply chain, are generated by a vertical coordination. A panel data (2008–2011) of durum wheat pr...
Authors: Felicetta Carillo, Francesco Caracciolo and Luigi Cembalo
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:19
CAP regulation of sugar sector has frequently been questioned because of its potential effect on competition. In 2006 the CAP reform of the sugar sector established a relevant break in policy trend with potent...
Authors: Maurizio Aragrande, Mauro Bruni, Alberico Loi and Roberto Esposti
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:18
This paper aims to evaluate the technical efficiency and the total factor productivity change of dairy farms in EU countries. Analyses were carried out in order to determine which countries showed the best per...
Authors: Fabio A. Madau, Roberto Furesi and Pietro Pulina
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:17
This paper examines the current setting of instruments aimed at rebalancing unequal market power in the food chain. Particular attention is given to horizontal integration possibilities for farmers, and organi...
Authors: Beatriz Velázquez and Bruno Buffaria
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:16
During the 52nd Conference of the Italian Society of Agricultural Economists (SIDEA), Italian agricultural economists have been given the opportunity to debate regarding internationalization, competition, and ...
Authors: Simone Severini and Alessandro Sorrentino
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:15
Estimation of consumption intensity of African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) is important to understand how their utilization can be enhanced at the household level. The study evaluated consumption intensity of...
Authors: Eric Obedy Gido, Oscar Ingasia Ayuya, George Owuor and Wolfgang Bokelmann
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:14
Growing concerns in the major importing countries on the socio-environmental sustainability of oil palm farming may affect the import demand of palm oil and hence the economy of the exporting countries. This p...
Authors: Yaghoob Jafari, Jamal Othman, Peter Witzke and Sufian Jusoh
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:13
Minimum tillage combined with mulching (MTM) is critical to conservation agriculture, yet its use by smallholder farmers raises challenging questions regarding adoption, diffusion and scaling at farm level. In...
Authors: Paswel P. Marenya, Menale Kassie, Moti Jaleta, Dil Bahadur Rahut and Olaf Erenstein
Citation:Agricultural and Food Economics
2017
5:12
