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Potential Adoption of Genetically Modified Rapeseed in France, Effects on Revenues of Farmers and Upstream Companies: an ex ante evaluation
Desquilbet, Marion; Lemarie, Stephane; Levert, Fabrice - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002
In this paper, we conduct an empirical investigation of potential adoption of herbicide-tolerant (HT) genetically modified (GM) rapeseed in France. Our aim is to study ex ante the potential impact of their adoption in France, in terms of adoption level, economic gains, and distribution of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005806069
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Assessing the impact of different rural development policy design options on the adoption of innovation across five case studies in EU
Bartolini, Fabio; Floridi, Matteo; Latruffe, Laure; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Innovation and new technology adoption represent two central elements for the enterprise and industry development … policy design options concerning the RDP measures intended to provide incentives for investment/innovation adoption in five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693181
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The LEADER programme 2007-2013: refocusing towards agriculture-oriented activities as a consequence of ‘mainstreaming’ innovative rural action in Austria
Oedl-Wieser, Theresia; Strahl, Wibke; Dax, Thomas - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Since the on-going funding period 2007-2013 the former European Community Initiative Leader has become a constituent part of Rural Development Policies. Above all the mainstreaming of Leader into the Rural Development Programme (RDP) as axis 4 has both significantly changed the level of funding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693202
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A model of IPRs in the international supply chain of seeds and agricultural production
Eaton, Derek - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
framework. The effects of IPRs on innovation are endogenized and the welfare of consumers assessed through the price for food …. The theoretical analysis reveals some novel aspects of the traditional innovation versus diffusion tradeoff. Less … productive producers, and also consumers, are better off with a moderate level of appropriability and lower level of innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124934
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Co-specific investment and integration in the agrifood chain
Feng, Li; Karantininis, Kostas - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
We develop a holdup model where multiple parties in the food chain (input suppliers, farmers, and buyers of the produce) invest in co-specific assets necessary for an innovative product. Shapley value is used in a multilateral bargaining game to assign bargaining power to the players, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125035
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Contribution of Supports to Modernisation for Enhancing Competitiveness of the Czech Agricultural and Forestry Holdings
Pechrova, Marie - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012
Specific weaknesses of the Czech agriculture are “longstanding under-capitalization and credit burden on business, low level of support and market protection in comparison with other European countries prior accession to the EU and low level of financial means in the agricultural sector during...
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Assessing the effect of the CAP on farm innovation adoption. An analysis in two French regions
Bartolini, Fabio; Latruffe, Laure; Viaggi, Davide - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
Literature on innovation adoption mechanism has emphasised the positive effect of Single Farm Payments (SFP) and Rural … to strengthen the role of innovation in the European Union (EU). The objective of this paper is to identify the … determinants of the adoption of future innovation, in particular in connection to past innovation, and to assess the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853661
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Positional Advantage within Small Farms: Evidence from Illinois
Micheels, Eric T.; Gow, Hamish R. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009
orientation, entrepreneurship, innovation and learning are first-order indicators of positional advantage and that the positional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998953
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Is organic farming a chance for family farms to survive?
Ferto, Imre; Forgacs, Csaba - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009
The paper investigates the choice between conventional and organic production technologies for individual farmers in Hungarian agriculture. We employ sequential logit model on a cross-section data set of Hungarian farmers for the period 2007. Our estimations reveal that age of farmers has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998986
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Innovation and Food System Sustainability: Public Concerns vs Private Interests
Sodano, Valeria - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
The food system negatively affects the environment, human health and the total well being of the society in many ways, causing: soil and water depletion, pollution due to the waste treatments, acid rains, desertification, climate change, ozone depletion and biodiversity loss. The paper endeavors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256623