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Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:20
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Agricultural contracts, adverse selection, and multiple inputs
A significant and growing share of US agricultural output is produced under a production or marketing contract. An important controversy regarding agricultural production contracts is the control of non-labor ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:19 -
The dark and the bright side of power: implications for the management of business-to-business relationships
The importance of power is underlined by many scientists who view it as a key behavioral construct. Power distinguishes itself as an effective tool in coordinating and promoting harmonious relationships, solvi...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:18 -
Short-term acreage forecasting and supply elasticities for staple food commodities in major producer countries
Forecasting food production is important to identify possible shortages in supply and, thus, food security risks. Such forecasts may improve input allocation decisions that affect agribusiness and the input su...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:17 -
The Common Agricultural Policy 2014–2020: scenarios for the European agricultural and rural systems
The reform of Common Agricultural Policy for 2014–2020 aims at promoting greater competitiveness, efficient use of public goods, food security, preservation of the environment and specific action against clima...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:16 -
The social pillar of sustainability: a quantitative approach at the farm level
The present research proposes a model for the assessment of the social pillar of sustainability at the farm scale. Contrary to what is available for the environmental and economic pillars, there is a considera...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:15 -
Lending credence: motivation, trust, and organic certification
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:14 -
Social farming: a proposal to explore the effects of structural and relational variables on social farm results
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:13 -
The land grabbing in the international scenario: the role of the EU in land grabbing
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:12 -
The impact of wheat market liberalization on the seed industry’s innovative capacity: an assessment of Brazil’s experience
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:11 -
Determinants of household food insecurity in Mexico
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:10 -
Impact of supply chain coordination on honey farmers’ income in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
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 ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:9 -
Market structure and coherence of international cooperation: the case of the dairy sector in Malawi
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:8 -
Determinants of agricultural technology adoption under partial population awareness: the case of pigeonpea in Malawi
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:7 -
Do CAP direct payments stabilise farm income? Empirical evidences from a constant sample of Italian farms
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:6 -
Economic and Environmental Impact of National Food Security Act of India
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:5 -
Food prices, energy and climate shocks in Uganda
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:4 -
Agricultural technology adoption, commercialization and smallholder rice farmers’ welfare in rural Nigeria
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:3 -
Antitrust intervention and price transmission in pasta supply chain
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 ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:2 -
Impact of trade liberalization and world price changes in Bangladesh: a computable general equilibrium analysis
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:1 -
Weather index insurance for managing drought risk in smallholder agriculture: lessons and policy implications for sub-Saharan Africa
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:26 -
Empirical survey on business models of kindergarten farms
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:25 -
A cursory review of the identification strategies
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:24 -
Farmers’ self-reported value of cooperative membership: evidence from heterogeneous business and organization structures
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:23 -
Examining projection bias in experimental auctions: the role of hunger and immediate gratification
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 ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:22 -
Sustainability assessment of food supply chains: an application to local and global bread in Italy
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 ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:21 -
What attributes of extra virgin olive oil are really important for consumers: a meta-analysis of consumers’ stated preferences
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:20 -
The value of added sulfur dioxide in French organic wine
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 ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:19 -
Welfare impact of adoption of improved cassava varieties by rural households in South Western Nigeria
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:18 -
Greening as compensation to production of environmental public goods: how do common rules have an influence at local level? The case of durum wheat in Italy
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:17 -
Investigating the international prices of wheat and rice
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...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:16 -
Fodder crop re-allocation sustainability and risk efficiency
Rhodes Grass crop is continuously cultivated in coastal area of Salalah and Batinah region of Sultanate of Oman and created a negative impact on agriculture production. The government authority stopped Rhodes ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:15 -
Can insurance provide the US dairy farm safety net?
US farm programs have been moving towards using insurance to provide the farm safety net for many years but this policy transformation has not been realized for dairy farms. Historically, support for dairy far...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:14 -
Is quality certification in fruit and vegetable production a market-driven choice in Greece?
This study examines whether the implementation of a quality management system (QMS) and the choice of a certain quality assurance scheme (QAS) were decided as responses by fruit and vegetable producers to mark...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:13 -
Socioeconomic determinants of organic cotton adoption in Benin, West Africa
Organic cotton relies on ecological processes and the use of natural resources to sustain the production system, unlike conventional cotton, mainly characterized by massive utilization of synthesis chemicals. ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:12 -
Who likes it “sparkling”? An empirical analysis of Prosecco consumers’ profile
The purpose of the study is to understand the profile (if any) of the typical Prosecco wine consumer, for both Controlled Denomination of Origin (CDO) and Controlled and Guaranteed Denomination of Origin (CGDO...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:11 -
Networking and innovation within the ornamental plant sector
The ornamental plant cultivation could benefit from networking, as the locus of innovation is no longer the individual farm, but increasingly the network within which the farm is embedded. The main contributio...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:10 -
The perfect storm of business venturing? The case of entomology-based venture creation
In this paper we discuss how cooperation and trust among entrepreneurs can be challenged when they are dealing with venture creation in the context of radical innovation. Entomology-based foods are considered ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:9 -
Eco-innovative food in Brazil: perceptions from producers and consumers
The main focus of this paper is to analyse the production and consumption for eco-innovative food in Brazil. The research can be divided in two parts: the first, focusing in the supply-side, aims to identify f...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:8 -
Market impacts of E. Coli vaccination in U.S. Feedlot cattle
Immunization through vaccination has been a commercially available pre-harvest intervention to reduce E. coli shedding in cattle for about five years. Despite demonstrated substantial improvement in human health ...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:7 -
Price asymmetry between different pork cuts in the USA: a copula approach
The objective of this study is to assess the degree and the structure of price dependence between different cuts in the US pork industry at the retail level. To this end, it utilizes monthly retail data of por...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:6 -
Innovation and valorization in supply chain network
Organizations, institutions and new governance mechanisms are taking place in the domain of innovation and valorization of the agrifood sector. Though not new in the literature, this topic is capturing the int...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:5 -
Case study analysis on supplier commitment to added value agri-food supply chains in New Zealand
This research identifies what attracts suppliers to be committed to long-term relationships in New Zealand agri-food supply chains where suppliers are required to consistently deliver to high product specifica...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:4 -
Alternative food chains as a way to embed mountain agriculture in the urban market: the case of Trentino
Peri-urban agriculture is exposed to multiple pressures, which push to diversification and multifunctionality. However, the urban-rural link develops in different ways according to the features of the territor...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:3 -
Oil and food prices in Malaysia: a nonlinear ARDL analysis
The present paper analyses the relations between food and oil prices for Malaysia using a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags (NARDL) model. The bounds test of the NARDL specification suggests the presen...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:2 -
Agricultural districts in the Italian regions: looking toward 2020
Agricultural, quality agro-food, supply-chain and rural districts were introduced by Italian law in 2001. With reference to European structural policies, especially rural development policy, and to the distric...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:1 -
Bioenergy chain building: a collective action perspective
Depletion of natural resources has become a key issue on the European policy agenda. Bottom-up measures have emerged in several countries with a view to promoting awareness campaigns and environmental sustaina...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:18 -
The adoption of technologies, management practices, and production systems in U.S. milk production
Adoption rates of 19 dairy technologies, management practices, and production systems (TMPPS) are estimated for the U.S. for 2005 and 2010 and, in cases where data are available, 1993 and 2000. Logit models ar...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:17 -
Understanding linkages between common agricultural policy and High Nature Value (HNV) farmland provision: an empirical analysis in Tuscany Region
The connection between agriculture and environment is a central topic to the agricultural policy agenda and it has been the core of policy reforms. These linkages have been strengthened by the 2003 Common Agri...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:13 -
Consumer demand for alcoholic beverages in Switzerland: a two-stage quadratic almost ideal demand system for low, moderate, and heavy drinking households
In this study, we estimate final demand for beverages with a particular focus on alcoholic beverages and calculate elasticities using microdata from the Swiss household expenditure survey from 2000 to 2009, wh...
Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:15
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