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  1. Smallholder farming, predominant in Uganda, is characterized by low productivity for most crops including rice which is gaining prominence as both a food and income crop. The low productivity is mostly attribu...

    Authors: Daniel Micheal Okello, Jackline Bonabana-Wabbi and Basil Mugonola
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:19
  2. This article analyzes the link between world prices and producer prices of rubber in Côte d’Ivoire. Using monthly data from 2006 to 2016, we gave special attention to structural breaks in the data and asymmetr...

    Authors: Mélanie Ahoba and Frédéric Gaspart
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:18
  3. Frequent droughts in sub-Saharan Africa imply water stress for rainfed agriculture and, ultimately, food insecurity, underlining the region’s vulnerability to climate change. Yet, in the maize-growing areas, f...

    Authors: Franklin Simtowe, Paswel Marenya, Emily Amondo, Mosisa Worku, Dil Bahadur Rahut and Olaf Erenstein
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:15
  4. The objective of the paper is to understand the process of designing a multi-stakeholder partnership in the adoption of sustainable innovations in value chains. More specifically, the focus is on the design of...

    Authors: Barbara Pancino, Emanuele Blasi, Anne Rappoldt, Stefano Pascucci, Luca Ruini and Cesare Ronchi
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:13
  5. The interest in wine produced in an environmentally friendly manner is increasing in the global market among both consumers and producers. Moreover, numerous labelling and certification systems have been intro...

    Authors: Gianluigi Gallenti, Stefania Troiano, Francesco Marangon, Paolo Bogoni, Barbara Campisi and Marta Cosmina
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:12
  6. The transfer of farm activity over time occurs through different pathways, among which the more frequent is intra-family farm succession. Thus, better information on farm succession determinants is crucial for...

    Authors: Daniele Cavicchioli, Danilo Bertoni, Dario Gianfranco Frisio and Roberto Pretolani
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:10
  7. This study employs stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) correcting for sample selection bias, to determine technical efficiency (TE) and technology gap using cross-sectional data collected from 543 rice farmers ...

    Authors: Shaibu Baanni Azumah, Samuel Arkoh Donkoh and Joseph Agebase Awuni
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:9
  8. No-tillage is a farming system aiming at minimizing soil disturbance associated with the cultivation of arable crops. This technique, together with the practices of continuous soil cover and of crop rotation, ...

    Authors: Danilo Marandola, Angelo Belliggiano, Luca Romagnoli and Corrado Ievoli
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:7
  9. We examine the impact of food labels that make unsupported claims of food safety and labels that provide information to support such claims on consumer choices and examine consumers’ willingness to pay for bee...

    Authors: Kofi Britwum and Amalia Yiannaka
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:4
  10. This paper examines the intra-gender nutrition outcome both with and without the presence of household level shock using Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Survey (LSMS) panel data in Ethiopia. We u...

    Authors: Gebremeskel Berhane Tesfay and Babatunde Abidoye
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:3
  11. Smallholder farmers are excluded from efficient and effective participation in high-value agro-food market chains due to major competitiveness constraints and several market failures along these chains. The pu...

    Authors: Evans Ngenoh, Barnabas K. Kurgat, Hillary K. Bett, Sindu W. Kebede and Wolfgang Bokelmann
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:2
  12. Proven that the adoption rate of a new product is influenced by the network characteristics of the early adopters, the aim of this paper is to find the network features of the early adopters associated with hi...

    Authors: Angela Barbuto, Antonio Lopolito and Fabio Gaetano Santeramo
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2019 7:1
  13. Over the last decades, economic, social, and environmental changes have profoundly affected citizen-consumer’s lifestyle and food habits. Current food habits encourage people either to eat more outside home or...

    Authors: Concetta Nazzaro, Marco Lerro and Giuseppe Marotta
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:23
  14. Among foods with credence attributes, food with “natural” components have received in the last years particular attention by consumers. This study applies the BDM incentive compatible mechanism to explore youn...

    Authors: Giuseppina Migliore, Massimiliano Borrello, Alessia Lombardi and Giorgio Schifani
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:21
  15. Low adoption of agricultural technology is among the main reasons for low farm productivity and high incidence of poverty and food insecurity in sub-Saharan countries including Tanzania. In this study, we exam...

    Authors: Aloyce R Kaliba, Kizito Mazvimavi, Theresia L Gregory, Frida M Mgonja and Mary Mgonja
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:18
  16. Agricultural price distortion which is the discrepancy between world market price of agricultural produce and price received by farmers as a result of market interventions by governments, either through subsid...

    Authors: Aimable Nsabimana and Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:20
  17. The Common Agricultural Policy has traditionally provided support to farm incomes via direct payments under the Single Payment Scheme. This article analyzes whether the reform of the SPS will decrease the conc...

    Authors: Stefano Ciliberti and Angelo Frascarelli
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:19
  18. For horticultural commodities, labor is necessary for post-harvest activities such as management, marketing, packing, and distribution. We create a model with pre- and post-harvest tasks and transportation net...

    Authors: Andrew J. Cassey, Kwanyoung Lee, Jeremy Sage and Peter R. Tozer
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:17
  19. In this study, we evaluate from the perspective of the theory of commitment costs if the level of farmer understanding about digestate attributes could influence the willingness to pay (WTP) for it. For this p...

    Authors: Gioacchino Pappalardo, Roberta Selvaggi, Salvatore Bracco, Gaetano Chinnici and Biagio Pecorino
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:16
  20. In order to take appropriate and effective actions against anticompetitive behaviors in the agricultural sector, it is essential to understand the interaction between buyer power in agricultural procurement an...

    Authors: Tian Xia and Brian Sancewich
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:15
  21. The contribution of farming to food security, nutrition, employment and poverty alleviation in Africa cannot be overemphasised. This paper analysed the effects of adopting ecosystem-based farm management pract...

    Authors: Caesar Agula, Mamudu Abunga Akudugu, Franklin Nantui Mabe and Saa Dittoh
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:13
  22. Micronutrient malnutrition affects 2 billion people worldwide and biofortification could prove to be a cost-effective solution to its alleviation. The aims of this study are as follows: (i) to understand consu...

    Authors: Salomón Pérez, Adewale Oparinde, Ekin Birol, Carolina Gonzalez and Manfred Zeller
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:14
  23. Livestock production and consumption of meat are significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems and global warming. This paper investigates the role of marine reserves in shaping meat ...

    Authors: Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne, Johane Dikgang and Sunita Prugsamatz Ofstad
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:12
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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...

    Authors: Jenny Yuezhen Su and Maurizio Canavari
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:8
  27. 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 ...

    Authors: Sansern Srinieng and Gopal Bahadur Thapa
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:5
  28. 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...

    Authors: Luca Camanzi, Elisabetta Arba, Cosimo Rota, Cesare Zanasi and Giulio Malorgio
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:4
  29. 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
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:3
  30. 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
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:2
  31. 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
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2018 6:1
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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...

    Authors: Caterina Contini, Caterina Romano, Fabio Boncinelli, Gabriele Scozzafava and Leonardo Casini
    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2017 5:21
  37. 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
  38. 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