This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result,...

Im Programm der Ländlichen Entwicklung wurden Maßnahmen etabliert, die Betriebe dabei unterstützen, Geschäftsfelder zu entwickeln, die über die Produktion landwirtschaftlicher Güter hinausgehen. Dazu zählt auch die Unterstützung bei der Bereitstellung von sozialen Dienstleistungen. Diese...

Periurban farming systems are characterized by the need to adapt the farming practices coping with a modified natural and social environment. Questions are thus posed on the efficient use of the inputs. The purpose of this study is to estimate the technical efficiency and the productivity of...

This is the first book to comprehensively analyze key issues regarding innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development in the Japanese agricultural sector. Despite the fact that innovation and entrepreneurship are vital to the development of modern Japanese agriculture, there have...

Introduction -- Background: USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service and Economic Research Service -- Dimensions of farm complexity -- Conceptual issues : defining farming, farms, farmers, and agriculture -- The growing complexity of farm business structure : implications for data...

Die Rechnungslegungsqualität stellt seit jeher ein zentrales Element der Accounting-Forschung dar. In der Literatur bilden zumeist die Earnings Quality und die Disclosure Quality als unterschiedliche Dimensionen der Accounting Quality den Fokus der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Analysen....

The literature suggests a wide range of impacts of improved transport connectivity on agricultural growth. Still, the infrastructure-growth nexus remains somewhat mysterious, particularly in the African context, because many rural farmers do not have their own transport means. Using data from...