Technical change at the farm level or changes ininput prices often entail that the firm's supply functionchanges. These changes can take place in numerous ways. Thispaper presents a methodology that increases the consistency insupply responses across various sets of agricultural productsand farm...

Water management for irrigation requires suitable policy tools able to meet social objectives and private behaviour. The legal framework in the EU is today faced with the new water framework directive (60/2000), that sets up new criteria for water management, regulation and pricing. Among other...

The Mediterranean area is the core of an increasing exchange of goods and people. A distinctive feature of present trends in international relationship is the importance of factors that are beyond the mere exchange of goods. In particular, foreign investment, the creation international...

The paper provides an empirical study of the dynamics of ownership changes in Czech agricultural companies, which are assigned by unique heterogeneity in ownership forms. Since employee ownership has retained a relatively important place in these structures, neoclassical, as well as...

Since the enactment of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, owners and operators of farms and ranches have opportunities to evaluate new estate planning strategies for the transfer of farm businesses to subsequent generations. However, with provisions of the Act to be...

This paper aims at assessing the relationship between ownership structure, performance and investmentactivity. In particular it studies how behavioural differences between farms related to ownership structureinfluence farms' investment activity and thus their further development potential...

An intermittent and lumpy pattern of investments is observed in the Dutch horticulture sector: only 16.5% of firms experience of investment spike, but they account for 67.7% of total investment. The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of time-varying and time-invariant variables on...

The paper discusses the appropriate functional form and estimation technique for a wildlife production function on the farm level. A random effect model was developed to capture the relationship between wildlife output, management practices, natural conditions and non-observed factors that cause...

Product assessment for imperceptiblecharacteristics like environmental impact, healthfulness,naturalness, and fairness is a helpful tool in productinnovation and for enhancing socially responsibleconduct.In this study we apply multiple criteria analysis forthe assessment of fresh tomatoes in...

The paper considers the benefit to agricultural producers from commodity price insurance that provides in every year, but in advance of the resolution of production and price uncertainty, a minimum price for a fixed or variable portion of production. Under the assumption that producers do not...