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 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,...

The sharing economy for a wide range of goods and services is expanding across the world. To direct the benefits from sharing capital services towards small-scale producers, governments in the developing world are increasingly intervening in fast-growing mechanization rental markets. However,...

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...

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...

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...

The complex analysis of the main stages of Ukraine’s agricultural sector development for the independence period has been done in the paper. It was established, that institutional changes in the agricultural sector of economy occurred concerning following institutions: private property, state...

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...

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...

The effectiveness of production factors can be evaluated against several relations, which must always be understood as relations between output and input. The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between the effectiveness of production factors and business performance. One-factor...

В статье проанализирован уровень обеспеченности материально-техническими, трудовыми и земельными ресурсами аграрных предприятий различных...

The paper investigates the state of the agricultural economy of Kharkiv region, its businesses, allowing to determine the strategic direction of their further development. Expediency ensure the competitiveness of the agricultural economy of the region, diversifying their production exercise by...