Croatia recently signed several trade liberalisation agreements. The cornerstones of its trade policy are WTO membership, the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU and Croatia's application of membership as well as bilateral free trade agreements within the Stability Pact for South...

On the basis of portfolio selection theory, this paper finds that whole-farm risk must be regarded as a major reason for the low level of credit flow to agriculture in North-western Kazakhstan. A quadratic programming model was used in order (a) to demonstrate the comparatively high overall risk...

[Einleitung und Lernziele] Die landwirtschaftliche Produktion ist die Grundlage der globalen Nahrungsmittelversorgung. Diese Produktion erfolgt in der Regel flächengebunden und damit dezentral. Landwirtschaftliche Güter müssen also transportiert werden, zum Ort der Verarbeitung und/oder zum...