This paper investigates the linkages between farmers' machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in China. Both the theoretical model and the empirical results based on a survey of 453 households in Anhui Province indicate that agricultural labor input and small-size machinery...

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...

The main aim of this paper is to discuss the current situation of village representatives (so±tysi) in Poland in the times of dynamic changes taking place in the Polish countryside in the last decades. The importance of the institution of village representatives manifest itself in two main...

Much recent research has examined the implications of policy analysis for complex adaptive social-ecological systems. System complexity comes from both the natural environment as well as complex institutional arrangements that humans use to manage and regulate such systems. Such research has...

Ausgehend davon, dass der Agrarsektor in die Internationalisierungsprozesse der Weltwirtschaft eingebunden ist, stand die Untersuchung einzelbetrieblicher Internationalisierungsprozesse westeuropäischer landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit. Die Integration...

Der weiÃrussische Milchsektor hat schwer unter den Transformationsprozessen gelitten. In den 90er Jahren ist die Milchproduktion deutlich zurückgegangen, sowohl bedingt durch eine Reduzierung des Kuhbestandes als auch durch eine Senkung der Milchleistung. Trotz des Produktionsrückgangs im...

Seit der Gründung des GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) 1947 wird auf multilateraler Ebene versucht, durch graduellen Zollabbau und Reduzierung nicht-tarifärer Handelshemmnisse ein freies Welthandelssystem zu schaffen. Die Liberalisierung landwirtschaftlicher Märkte ist...

This volume of proceedings, available as both a hard copy and a pdf file, is an edited compilation of selected contributions to the Conference on Modern Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe (MACE) 2010, held in Berlin, Germany, at the ICC on the 13th and 14th of January 2010. We would like...

The current publication covers Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99, the FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, and provides an overview of the agricultural situation in the European Union (EU) candidate and potential candidate countries of the Western Balkans (WBs)....