The aim of this research is to find a concrete construction methodology of theMetapontum Agro - food district by three main phases: awaking of the operators andthe institutional stakeholders (got together in the district’s local web); economicterritorialanalysis; experimentation. This last...

Social Network Capital and Academic Careers: The Case of a College of AgricultureABSTRACT The relationship between economic performance and various forms of capital anchors a significant portion of mainstream economic theory and applied economics. Human, physical and financial capital represent...

The objective of this paper is to deeply analyze some of the theoretical andmethodological implications linked to the definition, the characterization, theevaluation and the estimation of the economic results of a multifunction agriculturalfarm. A deep study of these aspects seems essential for...

Since 2000, the two important reforms of The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)took place. The Agenda 2000 Berlin Agreement of March 1999 aimed to increase EUagriculture market orientation and focuses on the grain, oilseed, dairy and the beef sectors. Itreduced intervention prices in these...

As agricultural policy reform and its effects have become increasingly territorialised, analyseswhich attempt to explain or predict impacts need to be more localised but also identify spillovereffects. In addition to the predictions of policy shocks predicted by sectoral partialequilibrium...

Literature on innovation adoption mechanism has emphasised the positive effect of Single FarmPayments (SFP) and Rural Development Payments on adoption of new technologies. In thiscontext, the expected process of CAP reforming after 2013 is likely to strengthen the role ofinnovation in the...

The 2003 review of the Common AgriculturalPolicy (CAP) has introduced several new policy tools,among which cross-compliance. The introduction of thisnew policy entails production costs, along with othertypes of costs arising at the farm level: administrative,information, organisational costs,...

This study examines the supply response of the Greek beef market and the possible effect of the European Union’sCommon Agricultural Policy (CAP) on the Greek beef sector during the period 1993-2005. A GARCH process is used to estimateexpected price and price volatility while several different...

This paper sets out the results of a research project carried out by the University ofPalermo and financed by the Sicilian Region, which aims to establish the impact of theFischler Reform on Sicilian agriculture, and to project future scenarios that take into accountsome of the changes that the...