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This paper describes a cost function approach to modelling production and resource use at the level of the individual farm firm. The procedure for deriving the supply function using mathematical programming under fairly general condition of a convex input set is shown, and the model is...
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The upcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy will put pressure on agricultural incomes and will cause more price volatility and income risk for farms in the EU. This raises the question if and how farms will survive these disturbances. Farms are able to survive only if they respond...
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Work on common pool resources has paid scant attention to the role of properties of natural resources for the way their provision is governed. This paper scrutinizes determinants of institutions that regulate the provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Two cases of maintaining...
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Main objective of this paper is focusing on local institutions and their ability to effectively respond to local needs in designing and implementing rural development policies. The main unit of analysis is the Province of Grosseto. In this area a great number of public national and regional...
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The main purpose of this research is focused on understanding the politico-administrative system and structure of rural policy implementation in the third programming period (2000-2006). Case studies have been conducted for selected measures of the Greek Rural Development Programme (RDP) and...
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CAP Pillar 2 policies and Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) reflect a broad range of governance styles and policy …
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The objective of this paper is to examine value chain governance through case studies of four different certified value … chains, and 3) what does this mix of actors and values contribute to our understanding of value chain governance. Between … standards. Twenty-one focus groups were formed comprising certified smallholders and hired labourers. The conclusions suggest …
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Member and professional CEOs of cooperatives differ regarding their managerial vision toward upstream and downstream projects. We show that the managerial vision bias will cause inefficiency in the project implementation. Cooperatives with member CEOs are extremely upstream-focused because of...
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, according to recent studies on governance of rural areas, are also as far as cooperation and integration variables are concerned … understand the structure of the food chain supply and which kind of governance is characterising agriculture and agro-food sector … from the organisation that has been set up within the single LAFS: 1) LAFSs with lack of governance; 2) LAFSs with …
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This study examines the relationship between policy, market access, country governance indicators and food production … rainfall, market access, and education. Both governance and education can indirectly improve food production by enhancing …
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