Historicamente, hablar de economias o mercados de trabajo rurales ha supuesto, en el plano conceptual, adscribirlos a una escala territorial estatica, cerrada, dependiente. Este articulo, desde una perspective que privilegia el ambito economico y laboral, intenta poner de manifiesto como la...

El Instituto Agricola Catalan de San isidro (IACSI) es la asociacion agraria mas antigua de las existentes hoy en Espana y, desde su fundacion (1851), ha sido la principal institucion representativa de los interese de la propiedad agraria en Cataluna. Este articulo analiza el papel desempenado...

En las ultimas decadas, el sector agricola y ganadero en Espana ha experimentado una disminucion de su contribucion al PIB y al empleo. Dado que la industria alimentaria y el mantenimiento de los recursos naturales en las zonas rurales dependen de las explotaciones agricolas y ganaderas,, es...

Agri-environmental schemes are the main policy instrument currently available in the EU to promoteenvironmentally friendly farming practices. Nevertheless, the adoption rate of these measures is stilllimited. This paper develops a theoretical framework to explain farmer sign-up decision and...

The following paper shows the work in progress in the frame of the specific support action Program “E-Trust”. A initial qualitative study was carried out in order to find out evidences and opinions about the performance of e-commerce in the agricultural and food sector. The paper shows a...

Agri-environmental schemes are the main policy instrument currently available in the EU to promote environmentally friendly farming practices. Nevertheless, the adoption rate of these measures is still limited. This paper develops a theoretical framework to explain farmer sign-up decision and...

The objective of this work is to analyse the relative importance of three groups of competitive advantage factors on firms’ results of the Spanish agro-food industry. Competitive advantage factors correspond to three aspects: agro-food firms internal sources called, in this study, Potential...

The introduction and communication of new technologies in the food industries has given rise in the past to some scientific uncertainty that hampers informed choice. Here we draw upon the case of Genetically Modified (GM) technology and, in particular, on different types of GM food, to...

Employing a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Spanish economy, this study explicitly aims to characterise the potential impact of Kyoto and European Union environmental policy targets on specific agricultural activities up to 2020. The model code is modified to...

The present study is framed within recent works addressing the process of product portfolio renewal as a mechanism for organizational renewal, in that firms may use it to meet the challenge of a changing environment. Based on this theory, we build an analysis model linking product portfolio...