The influence on technical efficiency of access to credit and public support policies is studied for two groups of specialized small farmers in Chile. Using 2004 data, translog stochastic frontier production functions for 109 livestock and 342 crop producers are estimated. Mean technical...

Mehr als die Hälfte aller deutschen Altsauen wird in Nordrhein-Westfalen geschlachtet. Die Ergebnisse linearer und asymmetrischer Fehler-Korrektur-Modelle belegen, dass sich insbesondere Preisrückgänge in Nordrhein-Westfalen zügig auf die Notierungen in anderen Bundesländern auswirken,...

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Bestimmungsgründe der weltweiten Ausbreitung der ökologischen Landwirtschaft. Basierend auf der einschlägigen Literatur und in Anlehnung an die Standorttheorie wird zunächst ein theoretisches Modell für die Verbreitung des Ökolandbaus entwickelt....

Ethical aspects of food products have become increasingly important for Western European consumers. One example of such ethical consumption attributes are “peace products”, commodities produced in peaceful economic cooperation between members of conflicting parties in areas of political...

Auf den Weltmärkten verschiedener landwirtschaftlicher Produkte sind seit 2007 volatilere und höhere Preise festzustellen. Deren Auswirkungen auf die innereuropäischen Preise für Agrarerzeugnisse und Lebensmittel sollen im Rahmen des europäischen Verbundforschungsvorhabens „Transparency...

This study investigates the relationship between dietary diversity, a measure of diet quality, and health outcomes of young children. We examine this relationship not just at the mean, but also at different points of the conditional distributions of weight-for-age (WAZ) and height-for-age (HAZ)...

The literature that addresses the role of institutions in bilateral trade is extensive. However, research that link institutional quality to specific products and their different levels of value addition is lacking. In this study, we look into institutional quality, based on three indicators...

Futures contracts are extensively used by commercial market participants to hedge commodities against the risk of adverse price fluctuations. But although farmers have faced increased volatility in commodity prices in recent years, only very few of them actively use hedging as a risk management...