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| Vandermeulen, Valerie; Vuylsteke, Anne; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| Together with the evolution from the agro-industrial model to the sustainable rural development model (Roep and Wiskerke 2004), a part of the agro-food market has evolved from an anonymous, mass food market to a quality-food market. This shift is driven by factors, such as the changing relations between supply chain actors due to concentration in retail and processing, the growing importance of quality standards, considerable changes in consumer habits and preferences, the increasing attention for the multifunctional dimensions of agriculture and the establishment of new markets for public goods and services (Kirwan, Slee et al. 2003; Jahn, Zerger et al. 2007). As a consequence, the contemporary agro-food markets are more and more characterised by... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122011 |
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| Vandermeulen, Valerie; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| Changes in consumer preferences and demands, the process of globalisation, etc. together with the pressure of the United States to continue liberalisation of the farm sector in Europe, have caused the European Union to adapt its policy. There has been a shift in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) towards a more decentralised approach. In this paper, it is analysed if this approach is justified for rural development, by describing the case of on-farm diversification in Flanders. Using survey results, it is tested if the decision to do on-farm diversification depends not only on farm and farmer characteristics (e.g. age and gender of the farmer, his or her education, having a successor, arable surface, farm type and financial situation) but also on the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: On-farm diversification; Local policy; Decentralisation; Farm location; Farm strategy; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25718 |
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| Begum, Ismat Ara; Buysse, Jeroen; Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| This study estimates the technical, allocative and economic efficiency obtained from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach using farm level survey data to a sample of 100 poultry farmers in Bangladesh for the year 2007. The results from the DEA approach show that there is substantial technical, allocative and economic inefficiency in poultry production in Bangladesh. The results of the study reveal that under constant return to scale (CRS) and variable returns to scale (VRS) specification, on average, the farms technical, allocative and economic efficiencies were 88%, 70%, 62% and 89%, 73%, 66% respectively. Thus the results indicate that efficiency scores vary substantially across the sampled farms. To explain some of these variations, the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Economic efficiency; DEA; Poultry farms; Farm Management; Livestock Production/Industries; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50900 |
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| Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| A new method for analysing environmental efficiency, based on the materials balance, is proposed. With this method, an environmental allocative efficiency measure can be defined analogously to the more commonly used economic allocative efficiency. Nutrient surplus in pig fattening, a typical balance indicator, is used to illustrate the concept in a two input one output case. The materials balance based efficiency analysis is elaborated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Results are compared with those of more common, merely input or output oriented DEA approaches. A main conclusion is that, ignoring the balance feature of environmental issues such as nutrient surplus might be a main reason why traditional integral analyses of economic and... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25916 |
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| Claeys, Dakerlia; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Marchand, Fleur L.; Van Meensel, Jef; Buysse, Jeroen; Van der Straeten, Bart; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| The paper discusses an ex ante evaluation of the derogation on the Nitrates Directive for Flanders, Belgium, which is a case of intensive but highly productive livestock areas. The aim is to develop an accurate simulation model to detect small differences in manure surpluses caused by changes of manure production and/or utilization. The system of models consists of various modules to fine tune the calculations of manure production, fertilizing behaviour and manure allocation and disposal on and off farm. The results show that derogation may cause the existing manure surpluses to expire, if only nitrogen limits are considered and no transactions costs are taken into account. When also phosphate fertilization limits are considered, the increase in manuring... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Nitrates Directive; Derogation; Modelling; Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44436 |
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| Taragola, Nicole; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido; Van Lierde, Dirk. |
| In order to meet the changing needs and preferences of consumers it will be important for Belgian glasshouse growers to change from a production-driven to a customer-driven strategy. More than ever, use of information and product innovation become critical factors in the changing competitive environment. The aim of the research is to analyse the relationship between business and managerial characteristics, use of information sources, product innovation and financial performance of the firm. The results indicate that the average Belgian glasshouse grower makes low use of external information sources for production decisions. However an important variation in information use can be observed among the growers. The results reveal that vegetable producers make... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6991 |
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| Kerselaers, Eva; Govaerts, Wim; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; De Cock, Lieve; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| A farm model is developed for simulating the potential income change resulting from conversion to organic farming. The model uses conventional farm data, taken from the Belgian FADN. Given the normative character of the model, and the impossibility of calibration to historical conversion behaviour, two model variants, a rigid and a flexible, are created to broaden the analysis scope. Moreover, extra attention is paid to the verification process and sensitivity analysis. Results reveal that the economic potential for conversion is rather high, if farmers are willing to change their farm management sufficiently. Furthermore, conversion potential depends on the farm type and conventional farm characteristics. The model finally proves to be an interesting tool... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Organic farming; Conversion period; Farm model; Linear programming; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; C61; Q12. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24732 |
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| Frija, Aymen; Buysse, Jeroen; Speelman, Stijn; Chebil, Ali; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| The paper aims to investigate the economies of scale of Water Users’ Associations (WUA) in Tunisia. During the last years there has been a lot of discussion in Tunisia about the optimal size of WUAs, which allows more efficient management of the water resources at the local level. In this work we propose to see if the size of the WUA in the governorate of Nabeul (Central-Eastern part of Tunisia) would have to increase or decrease in order to maximize their efficiency. Apart from this qualification we also quantify the scale efficiency and scale elasticity of the WUA using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models. The results show that the output space (volume of water distributed and number of ha managed and irrigated) of the WUA that attain a high level of... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95982 |
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