Agro-food trade between the BRIC countries has increased. Brazil and China contributed to the rapid increase of agro-food trade. The Russian Federation experienced the stagnating and the most volatile agro-food trade over time. The composition of agro-food trade for the BRIC countries varies by...

This paper investigates determinants of agricultural sector efficiency in ten new member states (NMS-10) of the European Union (EU) from Central and Eastern European countries by the non-parametric method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the panel data analysis. The agricultural sector...

This paper investigates comparative trade advantages in agro-food trade. We analyze comparative advantages of Hungarian, Croatian and Slovenian agro-food trade in the European Union (EU). The empirical research seeks to explain how revealed comparative advantages have developed across countries,...

One of the striking features in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries is the deterioration of their agricultural and food trade balance during transition to a market economy as im-ports increased faster than exports or exports even declined. This paper investigates the Slovenian...

Especially in environmentally sensitive agricultural landscapes, agriculture cannot define its aims by itself - it has to account for a number of demands of different groups of society. For example, agriculture is expected to produce food and at the same time contribute to the protection of...

[fre] La politique Agricole Commune a pour conséquence deux types de transferts de revenus entre pays- membres: d'une part les transferts réalisés par le «budget agricole» de la Communauté, d'autre part les transferts gui ont lieu par l'intermédiaire du commerce agricole...

[eng] This article seeks to survey the evolution of the French and German agricultural policy positions from the creation of the EEC to the negotiations on the Agenda 2000. The fact that France favoured price cuts while the Federal Republic pleaded for quantitative restrictions, is explained...

[eng] On the basis of theoretical models and statistical material on the EEC's foreign trade, the authors analyse the relative development of the EEC's agricultural imports from developing countries, as compared to that of agricultural imports from developed third countries. They show how the...

[fre] Avec l'adhésion de l'Allemagne de l'Est à la République fédérale d'Allemagne, la structure de l'agriculture allemande s'est considérablement modifiée. Il est montré que ces bouleversements ont changé partiellement les instruments et la "philosophie" de la politique agricole...