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| Mbatha, C. Nhlanhla; Antrobus, G.G.. |
| A good indicator of successful farm redistribution cases has to be the continuation of viable productivity rates in their post transfer periods. Continued productivity benefits all the stakeholders that are involved in the process. Unfortunately negative productivity levels have been reported in numerous South African land redistribution transfers in recent years. A game theoretic perspective is adopted to argue that cooperation among key stakeholders, which could be enforced through long term contracts between a land buyer, sellers and new owners, would lead to higher productivity levels and other benefits. Additional benefits would, for example, include market related prices paid by a buyer. Sugarcane farm transfer cases from two municipality districts... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Sugarcane; Farms; Redistribution; Productivity; Cooperation; Games; Land Economics/Use; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96156 |
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| Olson, Kent D.; Vu, Linh. |
| Changes and trends in farm productivity have been of intense interest to many involved with agriculture. This study used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the output-oriented Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index from panel data for 1993-2006 for farms in Southern Minnesota. Bootstrap methods were used to estimate confidence intervals for the productivity, efficiency change and technical change indices. The model included three inputs (labor, land and immediate expenditures) and six outputs (corn, soybean, milk, hog, beef, and nonfarm income). Productivity growth was found to be positive during the period, with an average annual productivity growth of 6.6 percent. However, TFP growth has been slowing down in recent years and indeed... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Total factor productivity; Farms; Malmquist index; Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Bootstrap; Government subsidies; Farm Management; Productivity Analysis; Q12; C14. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49204 |
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| Blanc, Michel; Cahuzac, Eric; Elyakime, B.; Tahar, Gabriel. |
| In many developed countries, the share of wage employment out of the total agricultural labour force has been increasing for the last ten years. Using data from French agricultural censuses, we present an analysis of the factors that influence households' decisions about whether to work on the family farm or to work outside, and about the use of wage labour. Studying how the effects of these factors have varied between 1988 and 2000 enables us to highlight the different mechanisms that have led to an increase in permanent wage employment during that period. In particular, we show that family labour and permanent wage labour have become nearly equivalent in 2000, whereas that was not the case in 1988. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural employees; Farms; Family labour; Labor and Human Capital; C34; C35; J22; J43. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24620 |
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| Abler, David G.; Yu, Xiaohua; Chen, Danhong. |
| Contracts are widely used by agricultural processors for purchasing inputs not only in developed countries but also in developing countries such as China. The total number of formal, written contracts between farmers and food processors is increasing rapidly in China, and the formal contracts that exist are becoming more complex. Contractual design in China is evolving from simple price-quantity contracts toward more complicated arrangements known as cooperation contracts or joint-stock cooperation contracts, designed to share risk and mitigate opportunistic behaviors by the contracting parties. Due to small farm sizes, the contracted amount in the typical contract in China is very small compared with Western countries, and each processor usually has a... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: China; Contractual design; Endogenous matching; Farms; Food processing; Agribusiness; Industrial Organization; Q13; L14. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103805 |
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| Klemick, Heather. |
| This study examines the drivers of land use in a shifting cultivation system with forest fallow. Forest fallow provides on-farm soil quality benefits, local hydrological regulation, and global public goods. An optimal control model demonstrates that farmers have an incentive to fallow less than is socially optimal, though market failures limiting crop production can have a countervailing effect by encouraging fallow. An econometric model estimated using data from the Brazilian Amazon suggests that fallowing does not result from internalization of local fallow services but instead is associated with poor market access and labor and liquidity constraints. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Forest; Farms; Fallow; Ecosystem services; Land use; Spatial econometrics; Brazil; Credit; International Development; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120270 |
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| Cisilino, Federica; Marangon, Francesco; Troiano, Stefania. |
| An analysis of the main items characterizing the agri-food system highlights the existence of a strong demand for a politically-correct decisional process. This paper analyzes the value of the agri-food sector at national level in terms of Gross Domestic Product, Value Added at basic and current prices (ISTAT), comparing data with the EU level (Eurostat). Farms’ structure and production are analyzed in order to highlight the current situation and future development of the agri-food sector. After an overview of the main structural characteristics of farms, the study focuses on a direct survey (FADN/RICA sample): in order to collect specific data an “ad hoc” questionnaire was drawn up to identify farm characteristics, productive potential and main market... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agri-food System; Farms; Market; Prices.; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57998 |
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| Balcombe, Kelvin George; Davidova, Sophia; Latruffe, Laure. |
| This paper employs bootstrapping to correct for bias and to construct confidence intervals for Malmquist TFP indices derived with DEA. It uses these results to investigate the productivity change in Polish agriculture during a crucial period of the country's transition to a market economy, 1996-2000, when Poland was preparing for accession to the European Union. The bias corrected estimates show regress in productivity at an annual rate of 4 percent. The confidence intervals suggest that between two-thirds and four-fifths of the sample farms (250) in different years might have experienced no change in productivity. The cluster analysis based on confidence bounds reveals three paths of productivity change. Farms which recorded an increase in productivity at... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Malmquist indices; Bootstrapping; Poland; Farms; Productivity change; Productivity Analysis; D24; Q12; C6. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24572 |
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| Fogarasi, Jozsef; Latruffe, Laure. |
| The paper investigates the difference in technical efficiency and in productivity change, and the technology gaps, between French and Hungarian farms in the dairy and cereal, oilseeds and proteinseeds (COP) sectors during the period 2001-2004. The analyses are performed with national FADN data and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach under each country’s respective frontier and under a metafrontier. Results revealed that in both the dairy and the COP sectors, Hungarian farms’ technology was the more productive, despite a technological deterioration. This suggests technological advantages for large-scale (Hungarian) over small-scale (French) farming in these two sectors. These findings may also be explained by the higher policy support in France.... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Technology gap; Technical efficiency; Malmquist indices; Subsidies; Farms; Production Economics; P51; D24; Q12. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51053 |
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| Dannenberg, Peter; Kulke, Elmar. |
| In human geography the concepts of regional branch clusters have become increasingly important. In these concepts firms of the same or related supply chains work together and cooperate in networks of the same regional, cultural and social background. According to their regional proximity, firms can reduce their transaction costs. Also, having the same regional, cultural and social roots, it is easier for the actors of the co-operation networks to trustfully exchange competition relevant knowledge and to learn from each other. Therefore, the members of these regional clusters posses a higher ability to innovate and thus become competitive. While these concepts were generally based on industrial agglomerations, in 2004 we made a survey on 332 farmers in the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Regional networks; Cluster; Commodity chains; Farms; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18815 |
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| Brown, Dennis M.; Reeder, Richard J.. |
| Farm-based recreation provides an important niche market for farmers, but limited empirical information is available on the topic. Access to two USDA databases, the 2004 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) and the 2000 National Survey on Recreation and the Environment, provided researchers with a deeper understanding of who operates farm-based recreation enterprises, such as hunting and fishing operations, horseback riding businesses, on-farm rodeos, and petting zoos. Regression analysis identified the importance of various farmer and farm characteristics, as well as local and regional factors associated with farmer operation of, and income derived from, farm-based recreation. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Agritourism; Recreation; ARMS; NSRE; Rural development; Tourism; Farms; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Farm Management; Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56445 |
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| Latruffe, Laure; Bakucs, Lajos Zoltan; Bojnec, Stefan; Ferto, Imre; Fogarasi, Jozsef; Gavrilescu, Camelia; Jelinek, Ladislav; Luca, Lucian; Medonos, Tomas; Toma, Camelia. |
| This paper presents some results of a two-year (2006-2007) research project supported by the French Ministry of Research’s funding program ECONET. One of the project’s objectives was to investigate the determinants of farm technical efficiency in New Member States before and after accession to the European Union, and in particular the role of public subsidies on this performance variable. Four countries were considered: Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovenia, who acceded to the EU in 2004, and Romania, whose accession was in 2007. The study found that subsidies had a negative impact on farm technical efficiency in Hungary over the period 2001-2005, in the Czech dairy corporate sector over the period 2000-2004, in Slovenia over the period 1994-2003, and... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Technical efficiency; Farms; Subsidies; Hungary; Czech Republic; Slovenia; Romania; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44142 |
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| Ferjani, Ali. |
| Economic theory suggests several possible mechanisms through which direct government farm payments might influence the efficiency and structural change in agriculture. This study estimates identify the main determinants of efficiency, particularly, what effect farm payments have had on efficiency and farm structure by using a farm-level Tobit model for 1990 to 2001. The results suggest that the inclusion of direct payments does not cause a change in returns to scale of the underlying technology. Nevertheless, results find evidence of effects of direct payments on efficiency. Farms that received greater direct payments were less efficient on aggregate than other farms. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Switzerland; Farms; Direct payments; Technical efficiency; DEA.; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93806 |
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| Mugera, Amin W.; Langemeier, Michael R.. |
| In this article, we used bootstrap data envelopment analysis techniques to examine technical and scale efficiency scores for a balanced panel of 564 farms in Kansas for the period 1993–2007. The production technology is estimated under three different assumptions of returns to scale and the results are compared. Technical and scale efficiency is disaggregated by farm size and specialization. Our results suggest that farms are both scale and technically inefficient. On average, technical efficiency has deteriorated over the sample period. Technical efficiency varies directly by farm size and the differences are significant. Differences across farm specializations are not significant. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Bootstrap; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Farms; Farm Management; Production Economics; D24; Q12. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117947 |
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