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The information asymmetries inherent in credence goods have typically led economists to conclude these markets require well-defined quality standards and third-party verification that producers are meeting tho...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:14
Published on: 29 June 2016
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Social farming is gaining increasing attention from multiple stakeholders in Europe because it can generate several socioeconomic benefits, for farming households too. The research—which is part of a project c...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:13
Published on: 10 June 2016
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The worldwide increase in population and consumption has produced a growing demand for food and energy in the rich and developing Countries. The resulting intensification of land investments, to cope with this...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:12
Published on: 14 April 2016
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Market liberalization has a profound impact on the structure of economies as well as changes the roles of the public and private sectors and affects innovative capacity of countries. This paper explores the Br...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:11
Published on: 11 April 2016
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Using a national household survey and a newly established food security scale, socio-demographic factors affecting the level of household food insecurity in Mexico were identified. Households more likely to be...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:10
Published on: 25 March 2016
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Most of the literature on vertical coordination and its impact on farm performance and farmer wellbeing deal with high-value or modern food supply chains, including export chains and chains dominated by large ...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:9
Published on: 15 March 2016
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A supply chain in disarray can be identified as a barrier not only to growth for the agricultural sector but also to achieving food security in a country because it may lead to either a deficiency in food prod...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:8
Published on: 12 March 2016
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Common Agricultural Policy uses a large share of its budget to support and stabilise the income of EU farmers by means of direct payments (DP). This paper assesses how much and how DP reduce the variability of...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:6
Published on: 27 February 2016
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There is exhaustive literature on technology adoption rates and the relationship between technology adoption and relevant socioeconomic and policy variables. Yet adoption estimates derived from the application...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:7
Published on: 27 February 2016
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The Government of India has enacted the National Food Security Act (NFSA) on September 12, 2013. The NFSA aims to provide subsidized food grains to approximately two thirds of India’s population. The legislati...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:5
Published on: 25 February 2016
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The objective of this paper is to examine the importance of energy and climate shocks in Uganda’s food price processes. The unique features of this paper are threefold: first, we identify climate shocks comput...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:4
Published on: 18 February 2016
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This study assessed the determinants of intensity of adoption of Improved Rice Varieties (IRVs) and the effect of market participation on farmers’ welfare in Nigeria using the Tobit and Heckman two-stage model...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:3
Published on: 11 February 2016
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The issue of price transmission along the food chain has attracted considerable interest in the EU because of the welfare and policy implications that could potentially be generated. Possible consumer welfare ...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:2
Published on: 2 February 2016
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The paper analyzes the impact of partial liberalization of trade and changes in world prices of agricultural commodities in Bangladesh using single country Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. Since the...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:1
Published on: 22 January 2016
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This paper reviews recent advances in, and challenges for, weather index insurance for managing drought risk in smallholder agriculture, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its promise to integrate loc...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:26
Published on: 30 November 2015
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The paper presents a study of a new social farming initiative: kindergarten farms. The paper emphasizes the value of potential synergies between the agricultural and the educational service. The two case studi...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:25
Published on: 30 October 2015
Review
The article provides a literature review on the topic of identification of supply and demand. In particular, it discusses the identification problem, that is the issue of having to solve for unique values of t...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:24
Published on: 28 September 2015
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The value of membership of an agricultural producer cooperative to a farmer is universally understood to include market access, improved bargaining power, and reduced transaction costs. As a result of consolid...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:23
Published on: 22 September 2015
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The relevance of projection bias in decision making processes has been widely studied, but not specifically in experimental auctions. We study the role of projection bias in experimental auctions by examining ...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:22
Published on: 2 September 2015
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Over the 2000s’, consumers’ food purchases have been increasingly informed by supply chain-related issues, with growing concerns about the sustainability of chains differing for their geographical scope. As a ...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:21
Published on: 25 August 2015
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The literature on food economics has extensively analyzed consumer preferences for extra-virgin olive oil attributes. In order to summarize and systematize the information gained in recent years, it seems appr...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:20
Published on: 24 July 2015
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The addition of sulfur dioxide is a longstanding and common practice in the winemaking industry. Sulfur dioxide preserves wine, preventing oxidation and browning. However, in the U.S., wine labeled as organic ...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:19
Published on: 22 July 2015
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The promotion of sustainability is envisaged by the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a major issue for future policies in the agro-food sector, in line with the Europe 2020 Strategy. In this context, “g...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:17
Published on: 15 July 2015
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Low adoption of modern agricultural technologies amongst farmers in Nigeria has been identified as one of the main reasons for the low agricultural productivity and increase in poverty level. The general objec...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:18
Published on: 15 July 2015
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This paper investigates the international quarterly prices of wheat and rice from 1983(1) to 2012(4). The empirical analysis takes place with the structural time series methodology which decomposes the price s...
Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:16
Published on: 10 June 2015
