Rural Development experiences in Germany: opportunities and obstacles in fostering smart places through LEADER
To discuss the impact of LEADER on improving ‘smart places’, the findings of the evaluation of Rural Development Programmes in...
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Impact of interest rates on the decision to insure in agricultural production
This paper seeks to define the relationship between interest rates and decisions to insure among agricultural producers using the financial...
The effects of weather risks on micro-regional agricultural insurance premiums in Hungary
This paper examines the effects of territorial differentiation of damage to wheat, maize, barley, sunflower and rapeseed production caused by...
The pluriactive development of agricultural holdings in Poland with regard to the living standards of their users
This paper illustrates the regional diversity in terms of the agricultural income of economically weak farms in Poland (i.e. from...
Competitiveness and Geographical Indications: the case of fruit spirits in Central and Eastern European countries
In 2004 and 2007 twelve countries joined the European Union (EU), bringing about significant changes in the field of European...
Implications of conceptual and data complexities on time-series econometric applications in market integration analysis
This article demonstrates and highlights the conceptual limits of current empirical market integration (MI) time series models (threshold models) and...
Economic benefits of precision weed control and why its uptake is so slow
Innovation in agriculture ensures the widespread use of the most up-to-date technology. One such technology is precision crop protection, which...
Comparison between the United States and Poland of consumers’ perceptions of organic products
The paper aims at exploring further the potential of organic agriculture by increasing the knowledge about consumers’ perceptions of organic...
Agricultural monopolistic competitor and the Pigovian tax
A monopolistically competitive agricultural market structure has some features of competition and some features of monopoly. Monopolistic competition has the...
Social innovation and sustainability; how to disentangle the buzzword and its application in the field of agriculture and rural development
Social innovation is often appointed as an essential part of agricultural and rural innovation. Everybody seems to agree that social...