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Business-model of rural areas development in Ukraine

open access: yesAgricultural and Resource Economics, 2019
Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to study the economic aspects and justification of the business-model of rural areas development in Ukraine on the basis of farms, in particular family type, for the growth of agricultural production.
Vasyl Chemerys   +3 more
doaj  

Swedish Consumers' Willingness‐to‐Pay for Plant‐Based Proteins in Pasta Sauce: Preferences and Policy Scenarios

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores Swedish consumers' protein preferences by estimating the willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for minced meat and plant‐based proteins in pasta sauce from an in‐store experiment (n = 206) and an online discrete choice experiment (n = 517). On average, the WTP was highest for minced meat.
Emilia Mattsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Background of the development of small entrepreneurship in rural areas

open access: yesAgricultural and Resource Economics, 2018
Purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyze the background of the creation of family-type farms based on personal peasant farms, to consider possible scenarios for the development of such processes in Ukraine, to identify the strategic objectives ...
Oleksandr Maslak   +2 more
doaj  

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in family labour, hired labour and contract work on French and Swiss crop farms: The role of agricultural policies [PDF]

open access: yes
The objective of this article is to analyse the trends in on-farm labour use, including own family labour, hired labour and contract work, and to assess the factors driving their evolution in France and in Switzerland during 1990-2007.
Dupraz, Pierre   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Persistence of family farming, learning from its dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes
Traditionally, the family farm has always been seen as a cornerstone of the agricultural production system. Given social, economic and political evidence (Calus, 2009), this organisational form might still continue to shape agricultural development ...
Calus, Mieke, Lauwers, Ludwig H.
core   +1 more source

Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Climate‐Friendly Food Production: The Role of Production Method Information and Social Norms

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Associative family farming

open access: yesAgrociencia Uruguay
Since 2005, the INC has facilitated access to land for family producers and rural wage earners, through a policy of associative livestock enterprises. The research studies and evaluates group colonization in livestock, in its organizational, economic and productive results.
openaire   +1 more source

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