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| Enright, Patrick; Bowler, Ian. |
| Agricultural producer cooperatives, especially dairy cooperatives, have been dominant in the agri-food sector, especially in Northern Europe. Recently there has been significant concentration and internationalization amongst dairy cooperatives as many have been transformed into large international growth orientated organizations. In this article, the development of dairy cooperatives in Ireland and Denmark is explored from a regulationist perspective. In particular, the Mode of Social Regulation (MSR) is explored using empirical evidence from the Irish and Danish processing industries. Marden’s (1992) understanding of the MSR – based on five interrelated elements (monetary and credit relationships, the type of competition, the wage-labor relation, the mode... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44670 |
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| Chavas, Jean-Paul. |
| The paper investigates the value of biodiversity as it relates to the productive value of services provided by an ecosystem. It analyzes how the value of an ecosystem can be "greater than the sum of its parts." First, it proposes a general measure of the value of biodiversity. Second, this measure is decomposed into four components, reflecting the role of complementarity, scale, convexity, and catalytic effects. This provides new information on the sources and determinants of biodiversity value. Third, the paper examines the role of uncertainty. In this context, the role of risk and of downside-risk exposure and their effects on the value of biodiversity are explored. This provides useful insights on how management and policy decisions can affect the value... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Productive value; Complementarity; Scale; Convexity; Catalytic effect; Uncertainty; Environmental Economics and Policy; D6; Q2; Q5. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21280 |
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| Wang, Qingbin; Shi, Guanming; Zheng, Yi. |
| While China's economic reform has brought about significant economic growth, there is a considerable debate about the impact of such market-oriented reform on income and welfare distributions. This paper examines the changes in income and welfare distributions in urban China from 1981 to 1998 and discusses implications for China's food consumption patterns and trade behavior. While the Lorenz curves estimated using Kakwani's interpolation method indicate that the level of income inequality in urban China has increased significantly since 1981, welfare comparisons based on generalized Lorenz curves suggest that the rise in real average income has more than compensated for the increase in inequality and has therefore brought about continuous improvement... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21767 |
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| Helming, John F.M.; van Meijl, Hans; Woltjer, Geert B.; Jansson, Torbjorn; Nowicki, Peter; Tabeau, Andrzej A.. |
| Following the paradigm for reforming the current CAP, the first objective of this study is to give insights into the economic impact of post-2013 CAP measures at different levels of aggregation (e.g. EU, Member State and region). The post-2013 CAP measures included are directed towards income for the farmers, competitiveness, valuable areas and ecosystem services. The second objective is to analyse the impact of a scenario that combines the above mentioned post-2013 CAP measures. This study can be seen as a first attempt to quantify the transition to a CAP with more targeted measures at the European level and reveals considerable methodological and data challenges. A key finding is that the impact of the various measures is very different with regard to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114550 |
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| Borresch, Rene; Weinmann, Bernd. |
| Die Entkopplung der Direktzahlungen stellt neben Cross Compliance und Modulation das wesentliche Kernelement der Beschlüsse des Agrarministerrates vom Juni 2003 zur Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU dar. Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die Wirkungen der Entkopplung für eine benachteiligte Region in Hessen zu quantifizieren. Dazu wird der interdisziplinäre Modellverbund ITE2M (Integrated Tools for Ecological & Economic Modelling) herangezogen. Im Vergleich zu den Bedingungen der Agenda 2000 ist durch die Entkopplung der Prämienzahlungen mit einer Zunahme der Grünlandflächen zu rechnen. Eine regionale Nutzen-Kosten-Analyse unter Einbeziehung externer Effekte zeigt, dass die Wohlfahrt der Region durch die Entkopplung gesteigert wird, und zwar in... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14969 |
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| Hubert, Marie-Helene; Moreaux, Michel. |
| In order to assess the future world food demand/supply balance for the next century, in relation to the land uses, we develop a model in which the society has to supply two types of food demand, namely, processed crop products and meat and dairy products. From the supply side, the society can resort to different classes of land. Each class of land can be allocated wholly or partially either to crop cultivation or to pasture or last to be lain fallow. Primary crop production can be transformed either into processed crop products to satisfy final needs, or into intermediate livestock products used as inputs within the intensive industrial farming system. The livestock products can also be obtained from the extensive grazing system. The increase in world... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Aggregate supply and demand analysis; Food prices; Land-rent; Land-use; Land Economics/Use; Q11; Q15; Q24. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24627 |
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| Pennings, Joost M.E.; Garcia, Philip. |
| Financial research indicates that several firm characteristics are related to the use of derivatives. Less attention has been paid to the role of the characteristics of managers, which are particularly important when studying derivative usage of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper we focus on the influence of manager's level of education, the manager's decision-making unit, and the fundamental determinants of risk management - managerial risk attitude and managerial risk perception - on SMEs' commodity derivative usage. In empirical studies to date, the heterogeneity of derivative users has been neglected. We propose a generalized mixture regression model that estimates the relationship between commodity derivative usage and a set of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18955 |
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| Vieira, Rosele Marques; Vareiro, Luiz Ronald; Ilha, Adayr da Silva. |
| A agricultura brasileira vem sofrendo grandes transformações com relação à mecanização das atividades agrícolas e, conseqüentemente, vem afetando o nível de empregos no setor rural, considerando que estas transformações se intensificaram recentemente, devido a um processo crescente de urbanização, de forma tal que a pressão modernizadora na agricultura se responsabilizou pela eliminação de postos de trabalhos agrícolas e que se traduz pela criação de empregos/ocupações não-agrícolas no setor. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o comportamento da população rural e do emprego na agricultura no estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, especificamente as atividades agrícolas e não-agrícolas, dando ênfase à questão do novo rural, no período de 1998 a 2006. Conforme os... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Atividades agrícolas e não-agrícolas; Emprego; Agricultura; Agricultural and non-agricultural activities; Job; Agriculture; International Development. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109661 |
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| Roosen, Jutta; Hansen, Kristin; Thiele, Silke. |
| This paper presents an analysis of food risk perceptions of German consumers over the eleven year period from 1992 to 2002. Using factor analysis, we analyse the respondents general risk attitudes and the specific perception of food safety risks. General risk attitude are described by variables relating to environmental, lifestyle and food risks. Food safety concerns are grouped into concern about use of biotechnology, about residues, about unhealthy eating habits, and about natural contaminants. An ordered probit analysis identifies the characteristics that explain the importance consumers attribute to these different food safety risks. The results reveal that general risk perceptions and knowledge about food safety hazards are highly significant in the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25002 |
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| Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| In this paper we anlyse the meaning of multifunctionality at farm level. After defining the concept, a number of examples are given to illustrate problems in delivery of non-commodity outputs. Based on a general micro-economic model, it is shown that farmers' behavior will depend on personal characteristics as well as on relative prices. Next, Instruments to give incentives to farmers to engage in the delivery of non-commodity outputs are discussed as well as the possibility of collective action. The paper ends with some conclusions and recommendations for further research and discussion. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6985 |
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| van der Vlist, Arno; Withagen, Cees; Folmer, Henk. |
| We propose a test of the Porter hypothesis for the Dutch horticulture sector, using a stochastic production frontier analysis allowing for an inclusion of policy variables to account for the effect of environmental policy of firm performance. We find considerable heterogeneity in the way firms react to environmental policy measures. Our estimation results indicate, for example, that a 1997 voluntary agreement covering energy, nutrient and pesticides use enhances technical efficiency of vegetable and plants growers, contrary to specialised flower growers. Specialised flower growers, however, did react to the 1993 multi-year agreement on energy reduction, contrary to vegetable and plant growers. Summarising, our findings are mixed but do not seem to reject... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Firm performance; Environmental stringency; Technical efficiency; Environmental Economics and Policy; Production Economics; D24; Q12; Q50. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24641 |
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