Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence of risk balancing behavior by European farmers. More specifically, the authors investigate strategic adjustments in the level of financial risk (FR) in response to changes in the level of business risk (BR)....

type="main" <p>Given the historical development of land tenure in South Africa, the aim of this article is to examine the best routes to alleviate poverty and retain sustainable agriculture in the country. First, a theoretical framework is presented that relates land tenure to sustainability, and...</p>

The objective of this paper is to construct a framework for analyzing trade-offs between economic performance and environmental pressure at firm level. Based on a literature review, partially conflicting economic-environmental trade-off paradigms are structured and five necessary conditions for...

This paper reports on the increased volatility in the milk price received by Flemish dairyfarmers and its consequence on the risk profile of selected Flemish dairy farms. Thevolatility of the milk price has doubled since January 2007. It is suggested that thisincreasing volatility could have a...

Agricultural policy makers aim to combinestrong economic performance with a sustainable use of naturalresources. An important step is to move from trying to definesustainability towards developing concrete tools for measuringand promoting achievements in sustainability. Hence,sustainability...

The study analysed the factors that affect the internal governance quality of corporations in Ethiopia. It performed an ordered logistic regression analysis on a randomly selected sample of 76 corporations to analyse the effect of the ownership structure, form of ownership (private or...

Purpose – Building on the risk balancing theory and on recent discussions the appropriateness of using farm income maximization as behavioural assumption, this paper extends the risk balancing framework by accounting for business-household interactions. The purpose of this paper is to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence of risk balancing behavior by European farmers. More specifically, the authors investigate strategic adjustments in the level of financial risk (FR) in response to changes in the level of business risk (BR)....

Purpose: This paper aimed to investigate the determinants of loans and advances from commercial banks in the case of Ethiopian private commercial banks. Design/methodology/approach: The study randomly selected seven commercial banks to represent the population stratified on their asset, deposit...