Seafood consumption in the U.S. has increased over the period 1990 to 2003. A large percentage of the seafood consumed in the U.S. is imported. The most important seafood products imported to the U.S. are shrimp, Atlantic salmon, tilapia, catfish, crayfish, mussels and a mixture of mollusks. In...

The objective of this elicitation study is to provide insights into farmers’ beliefs which influence their participation in knowledge exchange and innovation networks to enable the enhancement of network participation. A set of facilitating and impeding factors was obtained. Participants...

This study compares the effect of Common Agricultural Policy implementation on comparative advantages of livestock production in four selected countries, namely Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia (V4). The comparative advantage of Czech Republic’s bovine production as well as...

Multivariate methods for analysis of the production and economic results in agricultural holdings in the EU countries are presented. Three methods were used: principal components analysis, cluster analysis and k-means method. The data base concerned 25 countries in the period of 1989- 2006. /...

The paper is a direct continuation of the series of authors articles concerning the construction of new indicators of concentration. In this paper it was considered measures of structures diversity. In the work on the example of structure of agricultural holdings in the European Union in 2003...

Multi-dimensional statistical analysis of the production and economic results recorded by the agricultural holdings in the EU countries in 2005 is conducted in the paper. Cluster analysis has been used. As a result of grouping five homogeneous clusters of holdings in the EU countries have been...

Some possible scenarios of Polish agri-food trade development are presented in the paper. Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), a computable general equilibrium model, was used to make some trade forecasts. The analysis showed that escalation of agricultural trade liberalization can result in a...

Growth prospects of foreign trade in meat products in Poland and the European Union are presented in the paper. Four scenarios considering different scale of the world agricultural trade liberalization were analysed. Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), a computable general trade equilibrium...

Mark-up plays nowadays the major role in plenty of DSGE models, and defining its cyclicality is one of the most demanding challenges in macroeconomics. The aim of the article was to measure price-cost margins (PCM) used as a proxy for mark-ups and their variation in the EU countries food...