This study develops a micro econometric model of specialised dairy farms in Moscow Region using panel data over the period 1995-1998. The model is used to analyse the role of input and output subsidies in the on-farm decision making. Theoretical conditions for short term profit maximization and...

This communication examines how the new EU novel food and feed regulation would affect markets and trade in commodities, feed ingredients and animal products. Market and trade effects are derived from a multiregion, multicommodity, multistage, non-spatial, partial equilibrium model in which...

Agenda 2000 reduces the bias in favor of low quality wheat in European Union (EU) production, but also improves access for imports of high quality wheat. Therefore, this paper uses a partial equilibrium displacement model that differentiates wheat according to its origin and end use to...

This study tackles the decomposition of efficiency with respect to agricultural production in transition economies by using a case study on small scale maize farmers in Romania. The underlying modelling assumption is that farmers in transition countries still face heavily distorted price...

The objectives of this study are (i) to analyse the current state of socio-economic sustainability of SFHs and identify the main types of SFH, and (II) to assess the impact of the 2005 EC Rural Development Measures on SFHs' socio-economic sustainability.

Farms in Tajikistan currently face a severe debt crisis that has been caused by a combination of two factors typical of such situations in many countries: (a) the inability of the farms to make a profit under current conditions and (b) continued lending by the banks to cotton producers...

The paper examines agricultural production and productivity growth in two Central Asian countries – Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Both countries are characterized by a significant shift of resources from the traditional Soviet model of collective agriculture to more market-compliant individual...

The paper presents a comparative analysis of the productivity of corporate and individual farms in Ukraine based primarily on cross-section data from a farm survey conducted by FAO in 2005. We calculate partial land and labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical efficiency...

The present study aims at modelling the impact of different CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) scenarios on 6 case study regional economies. The starting point is the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) obtained through a combination of mechanical downscaling of higher level...