Background Development of organic agricultural entrepreneurship often requires "scaling up" from a multitude of individual, largely disconnected micro organic enterprises with haphazard achievements, toward more integrated units, operating more systematically and allowing for replication of...

It was substantiated the goal setting of price relations regulation - taking into account the development of vertical management; regulation of revenue volume in relation to profitability indicators, ensuring the reduction of commercial risk and achieving financial sustainability of agricultural...

Low solvency and financial instability of agricultural enterprises in Russia cause the need to clarify, supplement and develop an effective system of measures and mechanisms to ensure the financial sustainability of agricultural enterprises. This includes the implementation of a system of...

Managerial skills for developing agricultural value chains -- Agricultural development bank -- Crystal Lake Fisheries – I -- Ghana nuts -- Nutco Ivoire: the cashew pricing dilemma -- Totgars’ co-operative sale society -- Casscorp: breaking the commodity monopoly -- Megha farms -- Henn & Co...

Mobile phone-based informational programs are widely used worldwide, though there is little consensus on how effective they are at changing behavior. We present causal evidence on the effects of six agricultural information programs delivered through text messages in Kenya and Rwanda. The...

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 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...

The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the reallocation process is hindered in less developed economies. How do distortions to factor reallocation affect farm dynamics and agricultural productivity? We develop a model of...

The farm household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vast majority of empirical studies assume that farm households...

The farm household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vast majority of empirical studies assume that farm households...

The interaction between the organization and the institutional environment leads to organizational change or innovation. As the basic industry of China’s national economy, agricultural enterprises are transmitted from the institutional environment to the internals of the enterprise and are...

Our primary focus is to analyze the dynamics and structure of physical capital in agricultural enterprises of Lviv region (Ukraine). Conceptual, logical, normative and simplex methods have been used with a view to carrying out the research. The results of the study can be taken into...

The problem of the concentration of agricultural land has now acquired a global character. Recently the problem of concentration of agricultural land has been identified as one of the major threats to European agriculture. For example, in Report Against Land Concentration recently adopted by the...

In this paper we show that the study of the farm size-productivity relationship hinges on the choice of productivity measure. Our main insight is that using yields, a partial measure of productivity, may not be informative for the size-productivity relationship because, in addition to total...

We revisit the long-standing empirical evidence of an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity using rich microdata from Uganda. We show that farm size is negatively related to yields (output per hectare), as commonly found in the literature, but positively related to farm...