In diesem Beitrag wird mit einer qualitativen Längsschnittuntersuchung von 74 österreichischen Biobetrieben untersucht, welche Haushaltsstrategien zu einem langfristigen Überleben im Agrarstrukturwandel führen. Zu diesem Zweck werden die Haushaltsstrategien der Bauernfamilien den...

Joint production of agriculture commodities and environmental goods and services is a key attribute of multifunctionality. However, complex natural and economic interactions make a sound analysis difficult. In this regard, the concept of economies of scope provides a simple policy oriented...

Successive CAP reforms raise the question of whether it can have a price-stabilizing capability. In this context more and more attention is being paid to private risk-managing instruments such as storage. The effects of storage have already been widely studied in the economic literature. But...

The deepening of the Barcelona Agreement and the discussions of the creation of a Mediterranean Union has awakened the interest of the non-EU Mediterranean countries to expand their exports to the European markets. This study analyses the factors that influence the German imports of olive oil by...

Der vorliegende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche ethischen Werte ökologisch erzeugter Lebensmittel, die über die Anforderungen der EU-Verordnung zum ökologischen Landbau hinausgehen, für die Kaufentscheidung von Verbrauchern von Interesse sind. Mit Hilfe eines Beobachtungsverfahrens, der...

An increasing product differentiation coupled with an increasing availability of electronic data has boosted the number of hedonic price analyses applied to food and agricultural products. Most of these studies estimate the first stage of a complete two-stage model as proposed by ROSEN. However,...