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Dario Macaluso, Francesco Licciardo and Katya Carbone
In recent years, the primary sector in Italy and elsewhere has been profoundly affected by climate change and a deep economic crisis, mainly linked to stagnating prices and rising production costs. Because of this situation, we are witnessing renewed int...
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Marek Zielinski, Wioletta Wrzaszcz, Jolanta Sobierajewska and Marcin Adamski
Organic farms should, by definition, place particular emphasis on the protection of agricultural soils, landscape care and activities aimed at producing high-quality agricultural products. However, when joining this production system, the farms face many...
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Ewa Szafraniec-Siluta, Agnieszka Strzelecka, Roman Ardan and Danuta Zawadzka
The objective of this study was to assess the level of financial security of farms and identify its determinants based on factor analysis. The data used in this research were obtained from the European FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network). Factor analysi...
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Lucio Cecchini, Francesco Romagnoli, Massimo Chiorri and Biancamaria Torquati
In recent years, eco-efficiency assessment has proven to be an effective tool to reduce the environmental damages of agricultural activities while preserving their economic sustainability. Hence, this paper aims to assess the eco-efficiency of a sample o...
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Basil Odermatt, Nina Keil and Markus Lips
To promote the provision of animal-friendly housing and management exceeding the minimal legal standards, the Swiss government offers direct payments through two programs for several farm animal species. In dairy cows the BTS program pays for group housi...
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Philipp Toscani and Walter Sekot
A Forest Accountancy Data Network represents an intermediate approach of empirical economic research between surveys based on questionnaires on the one hand and case studies on the other, with time as a third dimension. Over the past decades, the few ins...
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Vincenzo Giaccio, Luigi Mastronardi, Davide Marino, Agostino Giannelli and Alfonso Scardera
This paper investigates how and to what extent European and national policies have financed Italian agritourism. It analyses financial support derived from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (First and Second Pillar) and national and local subsidies. F...
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Alexander Zorn, Michele Esteves, Ivo Baur and Markus Lips
In agriculture, a rising number of sustainability assessments are available that also comprise financial ratios. In a literature review of farm management textbooks, taking account of the differences between European and North American practices and cons...
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Si Mokrane Siad, Andrea Gioia, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Vito Iacobellis, Antonio Novelli, Eufemia Tarantino and Pandi Zdruli
Agricultural land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment, and subjective evidence of socio-economic and environmental interactions has been demonstrated. Nevertheless, it is still difficult to analyze empirically the li...
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