In Deutschland ist das Interesse an (neuen) Risikomanagementinstrumenten für die Landwirtschaft in letzter Zeit stark gestiegen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt in diesem Working Paper eine systematische Zusammenstellung und Bewertung ausgewählter Instrumente zum Risikomanagement in der...

Common Agricultural Policy uses a large share of its budget to support and stabilise the income of EU farmers by means of direct payments (DP). This paper assesses how much and how DP reduce the variability of farm income over time. The analysis is developed on a constant sample of 2402 Italian...

Inflorescence, mapping the development of interdisciplinary studies on the sago palm in the University of the Philippines / Myfel Joseph D. Paluga [and three others] -- The indigenous dry sago starch extraction process of Argao, Cebu in the Central Philippines / Dulce M. Flores -- Ethnohistory...

Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit, die sich in die Tradition wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Grundlagenforschung einreiht, wird die langjährige Forschung zu vertikalen Integrationsentscheidungen betrachtet. Diese Forschung bezieht sich im Kern auf die Frage, warum Unternehmen bestimmte...

Most studies analyzing the impact of human capital in agriculture use the measure of years of schooling of the producer as a proxy for decision-making skills. An alternative measure is used in this paper. The measure was derived by "grading" decision-making and execution skills of a sample of...

The transition to market principles in Russia's agro-food sector forced the country's agricultural institutes of higher eduction to adapt their curriculum to the new economic system. This included the introduction of the subject "studies of agricultural markets". The paper shows that until the...

This paper attempts to understand the linkages between human capital and input choice in agricultural firms. The hypothesis to be tested is that better educated managers choose different input combinations than managers with a lower educational level. In particular, the hypothesis is that the...