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| Vandermersch, Mieke; Mathijs, Erik. |
| To assess the performance of a farmer and to identify best practice among a group of farmers, the assumption is often made that all farmers maximize profits and thus share the same business goals. However, performance differs due to personal characteristics, objectives and strategies. A survey carried out among 73 Belgian dairy farmers revealed that for only 34% of the farmers "profit maximization" is a primary objective. A regression analysis revealed that self-declared profit maximizers only obtained a higher farm income per liter, not per labour unit. Through cluster analysis, four main groups of farmers were found with similar objectives and management ideas: (A) risk-taking and progressive cow farmers, (B) riskaverse and progressive labour savers, (C)... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm management; Farmers' objectives; Farm performance; Dairy; Extension; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24832 |
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| Avermaete, T.; Mathijs, Erik. |
| Simultaneous with the growing demand for sustainable food, statistics in all EU member states report consumption patterns that are characterized by too much fat, overdoses of sugar and a lack of fruits and vegetables. The streams of literature that investigate the factors influencing sustainable food consumption and healthy food consumption are largely separated. However, the question whether there is a positive relationship between consumer behaviour towards sustainable food and consumer behaviour towards healthy food remains largely unanswered. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the consumption of different types of sustainable food on the one hand, and healthy food patterns on the other. The study is based on a sample of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Food; Health; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44237 |
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| Mathijs, Erik; Swinnen, Johan F.M.. |
| The break-up of large-scale agricultural production units into individually operated farms differs considerably across East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Large-scale successor organizations to the former state and collective farms still dominate in Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and in most states of the Former Soviet Union. In Albania, Armenia, and Latvia, a massive break-up of the collective farms resulted in a domination of smaller scale individual farms. Also within countries there exist wide variations in the decollectivization process between different regions and agricultural subsectors. We develop an economic model of decollectivization to explain these variations and derive a series of propositions regarding factors... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31882 |
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| Mathijs, Erik. |
| The EU provides farmers with incentives to adopt Countryside Stewardship Schemes (CSS) using subsidies in the framework of the agri-environmental regulation of the EU (2078/92), now included in the more general regulation on rural development In this paper, a case study of 36 farmers in the village of Bierbeek, was carried out to investigate the determinants of the willingness to adopt a scheme involving taking care of arable field margins in particular. Bivariate and multivariate logit analysis confirmed not only the importance of personal, structural and financial factors, but also showed the importance of social capital. Farmers who are more open to both professional and nonprofessional contacts are more likely to adopt a CSS. Hence, government and... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6981 |
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| Mathijs, Erik; Swinnen, Johan F.M.. |
| The break-up of large-scale agricultural production units into individually operated farms differs considerably across Central and Eastern European countries. Family farming is not well developed in countries where large-scale successor organizations to the former state and collective farms still dominate, such as Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. However, family farms are important in Albania and Latvia, where a massive break-up of the collective farms resulted in a domination of small-scale production units. Also within countries there exist wide variations in the decollectivization of different regions and agricultural subsectors. We develop an economic model of decollectivization to explain these variations and derive a series of... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Industrial Organization; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31868 |
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| Demont, Matty; Daems, W.; Dillen, Koen; Mathijs, Erik; Sausse, C.; Tollens, Eric. |
| Europe is currently struggling to implement coherent coexistence regulations on genetically modified (GM) and non-GM crops in all EU Member States. We conduct simulations with the software ArcView® on a GIS dataset of a hypothetical case of GM herbicide tolerant oilseed rape cultivation in Central France. Our findings show that rigid coexistence rules, such as large distance requirements, may impose a severe burden on GM crop production in Europe. These rules are not proportional to the farmers’ basic incentives for coexistence and hence not consistent with the objectives of the European Commission. More alarming, we show that in densely planted areas a domino-effect may occur. This effect raises coexistence costs and even adds to the non-proportionality... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Regulation; GIS modelling; Domino-effect; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43650 |
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| Alemu, Abebe Ejigu; Mathijs, Erik; Maertens, Miet; Deckers, Jozef A.; Gebregziabher, Kidanemariam; Baur, Hans; Gebrehiwot, Kindeya. |
| There exists a huge agrifood potential in Ethiopia. However, the country's agrifood supply chains are underdeveloped to deliver quality supply to traders and supplement household livelihoods from the sector. The key factors that determine the proper functioning of supplier-trader chains were not rigorously investigated, at least in the case study area. This paper aims at examining the key determinants in choosing vertical coordination for agrifood products in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. Structured questionnaires were administered to 247 traders in 10 towns in Tigray. Probit model was employed to identify the key determinants of vertical coordination. Model results show that market information, product characteristics, firm characteristics, and product... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Vertical coordination; Trader; Supplier; Agrifood; Supply chain; Probit Model; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114218 |
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| Verwilt, Poi; Mathijs, Erik. |
| This paper addresses the sustainable development of the Flemish greenhouse industry by investigating the optimal size, structure and location of its farms. It emphasizes the importance of a square shape of the greenhouse as optimal structure. Using Data Envelopment Analysis an optimal farm size that varies between 1.7 and 3 hectares has been found, depending on the method used. Location factors that matter in the future Flemish greenhouse industry include temperature, light, transportation costs, air pollution and land prices, while rainfall, wind, output price differences, soil and infection risk do not differentiate between regions. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6973 |
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| Tilahun, Mesfin; Mathijs, Erik; Muys, Bart; Vranken, Liesbet; Deckers, Jozef A.; Gebregziabher, Kidanemariam; Gebrehiwot, Kindeya; Bauer, Hans. |
| Frankincense from Boswellia papyrifera forest (BPF) is a traded non timber forest product (NTFP) used in pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic and chemical industries. However, the resource in northeastern Africa is under continuous degradation and requires conservation measures. Data from a discrete choice contingent valuation study are used to assess the factors influencing rural households’ willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to contribute labor (WTCL) for BPF conservation in Ethiopia. The standard probit, bivariate probit and interval data models were used for modeling respondents’ WTP and WTCL. We found household income as the most important factor affecting WTP whereas number of household labor is the most important factor affecting WTCL. Mean lower... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Willingness to pay; Boswellia papyrifera; Conservation; Contingent valuation; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116085 |
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| Rizov, Marian; Mathijs, Erik; Swinnen, Johan F.M.. |
| Farm restructuring in post-communist transition countries has resulted in a broad range of farm types, such as cooperatives, companies, partnerships and sole proprietorships. This study examines which factors affect production organization choices of rural households with an emphasis on the role of human capital in the agricultural transition process. We use a multinomial logit model and data from a nation-wide survey of Romanian farms, organized in 1996. The results of the empirical tests support the main hypothesis that the transformation process outcome depends primarily on human capital and farm physical capital endowments of the household, translated into household income by the household entrepreneurial input. Entrepreneurial ability is... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21798 |
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