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The introduction of cross-compliance mechanism in the European Union with its 2003 CAP-reform might affect the costs of … production and thus competitiveness of the EU. Little evidence is available to asses the costs of compliance with regulations and … assesses the impact of compliance costs on competitiveness of the various trading nations in global trade. Representative farm …
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The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. www.ifama.org
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The modern stage of development of Byelorussian economy demands search of new solutions to old problems, especially with respect to agriculture. Despite of external well-being and measures taken for development of agriculture, the majority of enterprises can not effectively go on with production...
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The general objective of this paper is to present the world importance of dairy sector and to illustrate present tendency of milk production, consumption, trade and prices mainly based on FAO data base. World milk production was 711 million tonnes in 2010 and it is expected to increase in the...
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Institutional problems and the corruptive use of social capital give ground for misuse of institutional gaps and cause intentional failures for financial benefits. Based on social capital theory and transaction cost economics (TCE) this paper describes how the institutional environment in the...
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Using a nonparametric framework, we analyze dynamic profit inefficiency for a sample of Belgian, specialized dairy farms from 1996–2008. Profit inefficiency is decomposed into contributions of output, input, and investment. Moreover, we identify the contributions of technical and allocative...
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Milk quotas are a basic tool of the dairy market regime regulation in the EU. An abolishment of the quotas in 2015 will trigger considerable but positive changes in the market conditions. Limitation of supply, which in fact is a very strong intervention in the market fundamentals, has a negative...
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Dairy production in Ukraine, as well as worldwide, is an important sector of the economy which ensures the food security of the country. The Ukrainian dairy sector has many unsolved systematic problems, foremost of which is the decrease in cow productivity and the number of cows. This directly...
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The dairy sector is one of the most critical sectors in Hungarian agriculture, where independent, privately owned farm organisations cannot countervail the market power of their business partners (processors). In theory, cooperatives and producers’ groups are able to strengthen the position of...
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Testing for nature price transmission and calculating elasticities of price transmission are important areas of research for providing insights into market efficiency issues. Symmetric or asymmetric price transmission has been the subject of considerable attention in agricultural economics. The...
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