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Price cycles and synchronization in South America
(2020-02-21)Prices of agricultural products often vary in relatively stable recurring patterns around their long-run trends. These variations translate into fluctuations of selling prices as well as farm revenues. We provide an overview ... -
Supporting biodiversity in European vineyards: Possibilities for winegrowers and economic implications
(2019-10-01)Viniculture is economically important for the agricultural sector in the European Union (EU). Beyond the economic importance, viniculture also affects the environment. Based on its nature as a permanent crop and its ... -
Assessing the Role of Women Empowerment for Food Security and Nutrition: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia and India
(2019-07-18)Equality for women in all areas of life is not only a fundamental human right, but is also a crucial prerequisite for achieving human development goals. Women constitute half of the world ... -
Industrial Policy, Market Structure, and Market Power in Agribusinesses of China
(2019-05-29)The Chinese agri-food industry is evolving into an imperfectly competitive market in our observation. The issue deserves more attention from the policymakers since any negligible departure from the perfectly competitive ... -
Versicherungen als Risikomanagementinstrumente in der Landwirtschaft - Über staatliche Unterstützung und die Beurteilung satellitenbasierter Indexversicherungen
(2019-05-27)Increasing price and production risks in agriculture require an effective on-farm risk man-agement. Against this background, this dissertation focusses on agricultural insurance. There-fore, the first part of this dissertation, ... -
The Dairy Supply Chain in Southern Brazil: Structure – Efficiency – Competitiveness
(2019-04-23)The dairy sector in developing countries and emerging economies such as Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, India, Colombia among others represents a very important source of income for small family farms. Promoting the competitiveness ... -
Communication Networks and Nutrition-sensitive Extension in Rural Kenya: Essays on Centrality, Network Effects and Technology Adoption
(2018-05-29)Globally, 767 million people live on less than US$ 1.90 a day and two billion people are malnourished. Especially affected by poverty and malnutrition is the rural population of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), who depend on the ... -
Three Essays on Evaluating the Impact of Natural Resource Management Programs
(2018-02-02)This dissertation is composed of three papers describing the nexus between natural resource management programs, farmer well-being, and productivity. Our study sheds light on the effectiveness of actions that have been or ... -
Schätzverfahren für individuelles Preissetzungsverhalten im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel
(2018-01-12)The issue of transferring a price along the value-added chain of agricultural products, the so-called vertical price transmission (VPT), has once again become a matter of concern. The retail sector is suspected to operate ... -
Can Sustainability Standards Promote Socioeconomic Development in the Small Farm Sector? Insights from Coffee Producers in Uganda
(2017-05-31)Sustainable food production and consumption are important goals for an increasing number of consumers, policy makers, and other actors along global food chains. This is also reflected in the 12th United Nations’ Sustainable ... -
Price Formation in the Indonesian Beef Industry: The Role of Policy Intervention
(2017-03-21)Beef is one of the most important food products in Indonesia. Its consumption level tends to increase from time to time along with the changing of socioeconomics condition. In response to high demand for beef in domestic ... -
Akteure der Landwirtschaft in Leader-Aktionsgruppen: Untersuchungen zur Teilnahmemotivation vor dem Hintergrund sozio-kultureller Fragmentierung
(2017-03-10)People affiliated with agriculture in rural areas often provide voluntary services. One possible form, apart from the original production focus, is assisting in the Leader regional development Local Action Groups (LAGs). ... -
Competitiveness and Efficiency of Rice Production in Malaysia
(2017-02-24)Rice is one of the most essential staple foods for a large part of the world’s human population and has a large influence on human nutrition, the livelihood and food security of several billion people living across the ... -
Small-scale raspberry producers’ risk and ambiguity preferences, and technology adoption: empirical evidence from rural Maule, Chile
(2017-02-22)Most researchers who analyze producers’ preferences under uncertainty report that producers are averse towards risk and ambiguity scenarios. This aversion has an influence on producers’ decision-making processes; hence the ... -
Combining Industrial Organization and Econometric Methods in Price Transmission Analysis
(2017-02-13)The degree of competition and level of price transmission in food markets have important effects on the welfare level of consumers and producers. Thus, substantial attention has been paid to the analysis of price transmission ... -
The Influence of Scale on the Measurement of the Vertical Price Transmission
(2016-09-19)Measuring vertical price transmission (VPT) has become a widespread means to evaluate the performance of food value chain. To do so, agricultural economists employ time series methods on spatially aggregated data of prices ... -
Applications of modern regression techniques in empirical economics
(2016-07-28)The development of models that go beyond traditional linear regression has been a topic of great interest in statistical research over the last years. As a consequence, a powerful toolbox has emerged, allowing for a realistic ... -
Competitiveness of pastoral livestock production and sea buckthorn farming in Mongolia: Application of Policy Analysis Matrix
(2016-07-28)This dissertation deals with two issues related to the competitiveness of the Mongolian agricultural sector: pastoral livestock production and sea buckthorn farming. The pastoral livestock sector plays a vital role for ... -
Agricultural Policy Support, Production Incentives and Market Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2016-07-18)Most countries in the world adopt policies in support of their agricultural sectors. In doing so, governments seek to influence farmers’ behaviour through various channels. While these policies and their incidence have ... -
Price transmission in international rice markets
(2014-09-15)The study analyzes price transmission in international rice markets in the last 12 years, covering the period before and after the 2008 food crisis. To this end, it provides empirical evidence of price transmission between ...