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| Idda, Lorenzo; Madau, Fabio A.; Pulina, Pietro. |
| Organic food demand is becoming increasingly important throughout the world. Despite this relevance, however, not many attempts have been carried out to profile this food market segment. This paper aims to investigate on motivations that drive consumers towards purchasing organic foods in Italy. Through a survey carried out in some organic specialized stores sited in Sardinia, we explored organic consumer behaviour with specific emphasis on understanding consumer reasons to buy organic products. A Multiple Correspondence Analysis has obtained four consumers’ motivational profiles and several findings. Furthermore, a Logit regression allowed us to evaluate the relationships between individual motivations and some socio-demographic characteristics of... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Food systems; Markets and trade. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/14143/1/EAAE_950.pdf |
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| Madau, Fabio A.. |
| A stochastic frontier production model was applied to estimate technical efficiency in a sample of Italian organic and conventional cereal farms. The main purpose was to assess which production technique revealed higher efficiency. Statistical tests on the common production function model suggested that the two cultivation methods might lie on different frontiers. Separate analyses of two sub-samples (93 and 138 observations for organic and conventional farms, respectively) found that conventional farms were significantly more efficient than organic farms, with respect to their specific technology (0.902 vs. 0.831). Analysis also estimated that efficiency plays a crucial role into the factors affecting productivity in the organic process. Some policy... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Farm economics. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/14138/1/Madau2007.pdf |
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| Cisilino, Federica; Madau, Fabio A.. |
| This paper presents some results from a wider research on economic and environmental sustainability of organic farming. It aims to compare organic and conventional farming in order to identify some of the main differences between those groups of farms that participated in the official Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN)-2003. The study is organized in two sections. The first part, after a brief literature review of the most recent statistical methodologies applied to identify the two similar groups of farms, presents some key economic variables (production, costs and revenues) and the most widely-used structural, economic and balance sheet indexes. The second part describes findings from a case study on the Italian fruit-growing sector. A non-parametric... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Farming Systems; Farm economics. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/14142/1/Cisilino_Madau_def.pdf |
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| Cisilino, Federica; Madau, Fabio A.. |
| This paper shows some results arisen from a wider research on economic and environmental sustainability of organic farming. It focuses on organic and conventional farming comparison through an investigation of Italian FADN data. In order to identify some of the main differences between organic and conventional farms a “distance analysis” has been carried out. The study aims to highlight some of the main characteristics of those two groups of farms to better address differences (if any) in production technology, costs and revenues. Furthermore it shows the findings of a non-parametric efficiency analysis on the Italian olive-growing farms. The purpose is to estimate difference in efficiency and productivity between organic and conventional olive producers.... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Farming Systems; Farm economics. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/14139/1/Cisilino%2DMadau.pdf |
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