Sustainability levels in Irish dairy farming: a farm typology according to sustainable performance indicators
Feeding the world’s population in a sustainable manner is one of the key challenges facing the future of global agriculture....
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Analysis of indemnification of income risk at sector level: the case of Slovenia
Using Monte Carlo simulations, the impact of diff erent levels of risks on indemnification through an income stabilisation tool is...
Is there a relationship between the prevailing model of agriculture and the structure of the crop and livestock insurance markets?
Given the strong dependence of its economic results on natural factors, agriculture is characterised by high exposure to risk. This...
The economic effect of Russia imposing a food embargo on the European Union with Hungary as an example
In the summer of 2014, Russia imposed a food embargo on most agricultural products from countries that supported the anti-Russian...
Intra-European Union trade of dairy products: insights from network analysis
In this paper, we employ a novel, network analysis based approach to gain new insights with respect to the changes...
Food scares and asymmetric price transmission: the case of the pork market in China
This paper investigates the symmetry of impact from three main food scare events on both the upstream and downstream price...
Assessing the sensitivity of matching algorithms: The case of a natural resource management programme in Honduras
A fundamental challenge in impact evaluations that rely on a quasi-experimental design is to define a control group that accurately...
Agricultural science research impact in the Eastern European Union Member States
Improving agricultural research impact is an important goal for the European Union (EU). The EU Framework 7 project Impresa studied...
The impact of investment support from the Rural Development Programme of the Czech Republic for 2007-2013 on the economic efficiency of farms
European agriculture is highly mechanised and its development is to a large extent shaped by the constant need for investment....
Changes in commuting patterns in the territories covered by LEADER Local Action Groups: Slovakia, 2001 and 2011
In the European Union’s (EU) 2007–2013 programming period, 29 Local Action Groups (LAG) were registered in Slovakia. The rural regions...