[{"id": "bae-10000", "words": "483", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "26", "author": "., .", "title": "In Memory of Ornella W. Maietta", "date": "2020", "keywords": "economics; university", "summary": "Ornella got her bachelor degree in Agriculture in 1987 at the University of Naples Federico II and the Specialization degree in Agricultural Economics in 1991 at the Centro di Specializ- zazione in Economico Agrarie per il Mezzogiorno, Portici (NA). Finally, she got her PhD degree in Agricultural Economics and policy at the University of Siena in 1997.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10034", "words": "7941", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Guastella, Gianni; Moro, Daniele; Sckokai, Paolo; Veneziani, Mario", "title": "The capitalisation of decoupled payments in farmland rents among EU regions", "date": "2021", "keywords": "capitalisation; data; economics; farmland; land; level; model; mss; payments; reform; regions; rents; spatial", "summary": "This work frames into this stream of theoretical and empirical debate about the influence of the implementa- tion regime on agricultural payment capitalisation. The capi- talisation of decoupled payments in farmland rents among EU regions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10044", "words": "8601", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Gastaldello, Giulia; Mozzato, Daniele; Rossetto, Luca", "title": "Drinking Covid-19 away: wine consumption during the first lockdown in Italy", "date": "2022", "keywords": "alcohol; beer; changes; consumers; consumption; consumption frequency; covid-19; drinking; frequency; italy; lockdown; online; pandemic; respondents; wine; wine consumption", "summary": "Drinking Covid-19 away: wine consumption during the first lockdown in Italy. Results highlight that wine consumption is a deeply rooted habit among Italian consumers, which resisted the great context modifications that occurred with the pandemic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10310", "words": "9576", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Gios, Geremia ; Farinelli, Stefano ; Kheiraoui, Flavia ; Martini, Fabrizio ; Orlando, Jacopo Gabriele", "title": "Pesticides, crop choices and changes in well-being", "date": "2022", "keywords": "areas; bio; chiana; crop; data; economics; eiq; environment; farm; impact; pesticide; risk; study; tiber; toxicity; use; valley; wheat; wtp", "summary": "These tools are generally known as pesticide risk indicators (PRIs). Variation in pes- ticide hazard from arable crop production in Great Britain from 1992 to 2002: pesticide risk indices and policy analysis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10443", "words": "454", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Thiene, Mara; Meyerhoff, J\u00fcrgen", "title": "Eliciting preferences using stated choice experiments", "date": "2021", "keywords": "choice; preferences", "summary": "This special issue wants to contribute to the development of choice experiments by presenting a number of selected papers that present results from methodological investi- gations as well as from policy-oriented applications of choice experiments in the area of environmental and agricultural economics. Investigating determinants of choice and predicting market shares of renewable-based heating systems under alternative policy scenarios Cristiano Franceschinis, Mara Thiene Multi-country stated preferences choice analysis for fresh tomatoes Maria De Salvo1,*, Riccardo Scarpa2,3,4, Roberta Capitello2, Diego Begalli2 \u201cNot my cup of coffee\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10465", "words": "12645", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Layani, Ghasem; Bakhshoodeh, Mohammad ; Zibaei, Mansour; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Sustainable water resources management under population growth and agricultural development in the Kheirabad river basin, Iran", "date": "2022", "keywords": "basin; dynamics; et al; index; iran; kheirabad; management; model; population; river; supply; surface; surface water; sustainability; system; water; water demand; water resources; water system", "summary": "Afterward, the variability of water demand and supply under baseline scenario and different water demand management policies, including water conserva- tion and water pricing, was evaluated. There are a large volume of published studies that have applied SD modeling to evaluate the effect of changes in some variables such as water demand, population control, water transfer as well as climate change on water availability (Gohari et al., 2017; Sun et al., 2017; Pluchinotta et al., 2018; Mah- davinia and Mokhtar, 2019; Keyhanpour et al., 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10470", "words": "8328", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Iannucci, Gianluca; Sacchi, Giovanna", "title": "The evolution of organic market between third-party certification and participatory guarantee systems", "date": "2022", "keywords": "certification; consumers; economics; firms; food; guarantee; journal; market; model; participatory; pgs; production; strategy; systems; tpc", "summary": "245The evolution of organic market between third-party certification and participatory guarantee systems Bio-based and Applied Economics 10(3): 239-251, 2021 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-10470 (11) where is the time derivative (dx/dt) of the share of PGS firms. Evolution of the share of PGS firms at increasing values of \u03b1, ec/eg. 247The evolution of organic market between third-party certification and participatory guarantee systems Bio-based and Applied Economics 10(3): 239-251, 2021 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-10470 6.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10488", "words": "12426", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Britz, Wolfgang", "title": "Estimating a global MAIDADS demand system considering demography, climate and norms", "date": "2022", "keywords": "britz; budget; climate; data; demand; demography; economics; estimation; factors; fit; food; income; model; norms; obs; prices; shares; system; utility", "summary": "Such additional controls are often found in demand system estimations drawing on house- hold samples, where such attributes refer to individual households and not, as in here, to a country. Demand system estimations based on a cross-section of country data set might face collinearity issues.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10801", "words": "5829", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Louren\u00e7o-Gomes, Lina ; Gon\u00e7alves, T\u00e2nia; Rebelo, Jo\u00e3o", "title": "The distributors\u2019 view on US wine consumer preferences. A discrete choice experiment", "date": "2022", "keywords": "attributes; choice; closure; consumers; distributors; economics; et al; market; origin; preferences; price; red; results; wine", "summary": "This information is obtained by administer- ing a survey on wine distributors in the American mar- ket (USA), positioned as the world\u2019s largest consumer in 2018 (OIV, 2019), but whose background and related 327The distributors\u2019 view on US wine consumer preferences. Alternatively, similar information may be collected easily and reliably, by inquiring intermediar- ies who continuously contact with wine consumers and have knowledge about their preferences and habits.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10820", "words": "14260", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Hatvani, Nora; van den Oever, Martien J.A. ; Mateffy , Kornel; Koos , Akos", "title": "Bio-based Business Models: specific and general learnings from recent good practice cases in different business sectors", "date": "2022", "keywords": "activities; bio; bioeconomy; biomass; bmc; building; business; business models; cases; company; costs; customer; development; doi; economics; energy; feedstock; food; key; material; models; plant; production; products; solutions; technology; value; waste", "summary": "Examples for additional factors to extend the traditional BMC, and good practices identified in bio-based business models for these factors. Examples for the additional factors to extend the traditional BMC Concrete good practice examples of bio-based business models Additional factor: Drivers and stakeholder involvement tools \u00b7 identifying and informing \u201copinion formers\u201d in different stakeholder groups \u00b7 active participation and support of regional or industrial clusters, advocacy forums and other organisations in stakeholder involvement, by action platforms to promote new technologies and innovations \u00b7 knowledge exchange and development through networks and across value chains, involving learning activities, mostly on the emerging technologies \u00b7 market formation involving activities that contribute to the creation of a demand for the emerging technology (e. g. taxation, procurement) \u00b7 general policy instruments (e. g. long-term public strategies on industry regulations, incentives for product labelling, consumer information, industry collaboration) \u00b7 public funding for early-stage research and competence building \u00b7 LXP Group: cooperation with Chemie-Cluster Bayern, a market- oriented development network of entrepreneurs and research institutions in the Bavarian chemical industry, acting as a catalyst facilitating the diffusion of innovative products into new markets17 \u00b7 Rotterzwam: cooperation with many local partners to find new ways for marketing products from coffee grounds and oyster mushrooms17 \u00b7 Wilson Bio-Chemical: partnerships increasingly strengthened through R&D into higher value applications, anticipating delivering more economic, technical, environmental and social benefits15 \u00b7 AF Biomass: strengthening the supply chain network by exploring new end-markets such as for linseed straw in the paper industry in Spain and with a new straw pelleting plant in the UK15 \u00b7 Bio-Lutions received grant from the German government for upscaling their technology20 \u00b7 NAFIGATE Corporation started its operation with low investment amount and public support (most of these funds spent on R&D activities and know-how development)17 Additional factor: Sustainability requirements \u00b7 energy and materials are conserved during the production process and the form of energy and materials applied are most appropriate for the desired result \u00b7 work practices (including the use of chemical substances, physical agents or technologies) that present hazards to human health or the environment are continuously reduced or eliminated \u00b7 products (including their packaging) and services are designed to be safe and ecologically sound throughout their life cycle \u00b7 wastes and ecologically incompatible by-products are continuously reduced, eliminated, or recycled \u00b7 non-food-competitive land use \u00b7 biodegradability of bio-based materials in industrial, soil, or marine environments \u00b7 avoiding health and ecological risks caused by improper use of technologies \u00b7 management of companies is committed to an open, participatory process of continuous evaluation and improvement, focused on the long-term economic performance \u00b7 NAFIGATE Corporation: HYDAL technology transforming waste cooking oil into high-value biomaterial polymers does not use crops or other feedstock produced on agricultural land, moreover, requires less water and energy compared to PHB production from sugar beet, potato, wheat or corn17 \u00b7 LXP Group: LX-Process can be readily adapted for large-scale 2nd generation ethanol manufacturing17 \u00b7 Biowert Industrie GmbH: \u2018grass refinery\u2019 solution using agricultural and food industrial wastes17 \u00b7", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10855", "words": "11249", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Filippini, Rosalia; Marraccini, Elisa; Lardon, Sylvie", "title": "Contribution of periurban farming systems to local food systems: a systemic innovation perspective", "date": "2021", "keywords": "actors; agriculture; area; et al; failures; farmers; farming; food; food systems; innovation; lfs; perspective; pfs; production; products; study; systems; urban", "summary": "Firenze University Press | www.fupress.com/bae Citation: R. Filippini, E. Marraccini, S. Lardon (2021) Contribution of periurban farming systems to local food systems: a systemic innovation perspective. ORCID RF: 0000-0001-7949-6544 EM: 0000-0002-2797-0758 SL: 0000-0001-6731-001X Contribution of periurban farming systems to local food systems: a systemic innovation perspective Rosalia Filippini1,2, Elisa Marraccini3, Sylvie Lardon2 1 University of Parma \u2013 Department of Management and Economic Science, Parma, Italy 2 University Clermont Auvergne, AgroParisTech, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Territoires, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France 3 UP 2012-10-103 InTerACT \u2013 UniLaSalle, Beauvais, France Corresponding author: Rosalia Filippini.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10881", "words": "11752", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Viaggi, Davide; Bartolini, Fabio; Raggi, Meri", "title": "The Bioeconomy in economic literature: looking back, looking ahead", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bioeconomy; biomass; development; doi; economic; ecosystem; et al; food; forest; innovation; level; literature; policy; production; products; research; sectors; services; sustainability", "summary": "DEMAND, SUPPLY, MARKETS AND CHAIN ORGANISATION IN THE BIOECONOMY 3.1 Demand Demand for Bioeconomy products come from the combination of two main forces, consumers and policy, that need to be understood in the light of major sce- narios and driving forces providing incentives for soci- etal change. Part of the literature focuses on classical analyses of demand elasticity of Bioeconomy products (Schier et al., 2021; traditional forest products markets change and diversify.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10896", "words": "12314", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "U\u00e7ak, Harun; Yelgen, Esin; Ar\u0131, Yakup", "title": "The Role of Energy on the Price Volatility of Fruits and Vegetables: Evidence from Turkey", "date": "2022", "keywords": "distribution; economics; effect; energy; food; fruit; index; models; price; price volatility; production; results; spillover; th e; turkey; volatility", "summary": "Indeed, due to the difficulties in storing these products for a long period, changing vegetable and fruit prices might well cause producers and consumers to be deeply affected by price volatility. Do energy prices stimulate food price volatility?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-10981", "words": "13042", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Aghabeygi, Mona; Louhichi, Kamel ; Gomez y Paloma, Sergio ", "title": "Impacts of fertilizer subsidy reform options in Iran: an assessment using a Regional Crop Programming model", "date": "2022", "keywords": "abol; abol targ; agriculture; area; bio; crop; economics; effects; fertilizer; fertilizer subsidy; iran; land; model; nitrogen; policy; price; production; programming; regions; scenario; subsidy; supply; targ; yield", "summary": "Fertilizer subsidy effect on its non-optimal use in wheat production. Keywords: agricultural policy, fertilizer subsidy, land use effect, Regional Crop Model, Positive Mathematical Programing (PMP), Iran.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-11497", "words": "2909", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Raggi, Meri", "title": "Ten years of Bio-Based and Applied Economics: a story of successes, and more to come", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bio; economics; food; journal", "summary": "Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal,\u00a05(1050-2018-3676), 199- 214. 37. Bio -based and A ppl ied Economics BAE Bio-based and Applied Economics 10(1): 3-6, 2021 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-11497", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-11501", "words": "8793", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Pastolero, Anieluz; Sassi, Maria", "title": "Food loss and waste accounting: the case of the Philippine food supply chain", "date": "2022", "keywords": "consumption; corn; data; et al; flw; food; fsc; gustavsson; loss; philippines; rice; stage; supply; waste", "summary": "Food waste, however, was not covered in their newly proposed method because of its distinct data collection and measurement requirements from food loss (Delgado et al., 2021). Food loss and waste accounting: the case of the Philippine food supply chain.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-11511", "words": "6605", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Dolgopolova, Irina; Li, Bingqing; Pirhonen, Helena; Roosen, Jutta", "title": "The effect of attribute framing on consumers\u2019 attitudes and intentions toward food: A Meta-analysis", "date": "2022", "keywords": "analysis; attitudes; attribute; consumer; economics; effect; food; framing; gain; health; intentions; meta; people; product; studies", "summary": "Food products Benefits/risks of nanotechnology N/A 20 Hilverda, F. et al. (2017) Organic food Advantages/disadvantages of organic foods Interaction partner: expert vs. peer vs. anonymous 21 Lundeberg, P. et al. (2018) Variety of food products Healthfulness N/A 22 Kuo, K. et al. (2019) This paper analyzes the existing literature on the effect of attribute framing on consumers\u2019 attitudes and intentions with regard to food products.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-12160", "words": "5135", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Tappi, Marco; Nardone, Gianluca; Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano", "title": "On the relationships among durum wheat yields and weather conditions: evidence from Apulia region, Southern Italy", "date": "2022", "keywords": "crop; data; durum; economics; et al; insurance; risk; santeramo; temperature; weather; wheat; yields", "summary": "We conclude opening a reflection on how the stakeholders may make use of publicly available data to design effective weather crop insurances. Quan- tifying spatial basis risk for weather index insurance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-12206", "words": "11089", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Bonfiglio, Andrea; Abitabile, Carla; Henke, Roberto", "title": "A choice model-based analysis of diversification in organic and conventional farms", "date": "2022", "keywords": "diversification; diversify; dummy; education; farmers; farming; farms; model; policy; probability; strategies; support", "summary": "However, there is a lack of con- firmation in this regard given the scarcity of studies that explicitly focus on diversifica- tion in organic farms. This strategy not only can be suc- cessfully adopted in the context of organic farming but might also provide a comparative advantage over con- ventional farms that diversify by leveraging the willing- ness of consumers to pay higher prices for products and services provided by organic farms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-12211", "words": "16264", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Dono, Gabriele; Buttinelli, Rebecca; Cortignani, Raffaele", "title": "Financial performance of connected Agribusiness activities in Italian agriculture", "date": "2022", "keywords": "activities; agribusiness; agribusiness activities; agribusiness farms; alternating; cattle; crops; doi; economics; et al; farming; farms; fcfe; fruits; livestock; results; sustainability; values", "summary": "Keywords: depreciation, Free Cash Flow on Equity, farm financial sustainability, agri- business, organic farming, agricultural products processing, direct sale of agricultural products, quality agricultural products, farmhouses. Dono et al. (2021) concluded that in the studied period these capitals show little capacity to increase farms financial sustainability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-12230", "words": "1415", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Arfini, Filippo", "title": "Mediterranean agriculture facing climate change: Challenges and policies", "date": "2021", "keywords": "change; climate; food; mediterranean; world", "summary": "The harmful effects of global climate change on agriculture are unequal- ly distributed across regions and countries, both in relation to the physical and environmental conditions, and depending on the sensitivity, exposure and adaptive capacity of local natural and social systems. Mediterranean agriculture facing climate change: Challenges and policies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-12322", "words": "15898", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Matthews, Alan", "title": "The contribution of research to agricultural policy in Europe", "date": "2022", "keywords": "agriculture; analysis; bio; brussels; cap; change; climate; commission; data; development; economics; european; farm; farmers; food; impact; income; land; member; payments; policy; policy research; production; research; review; support; systems; use", "summary": "The paper concludes by identifying requirements to ensure that agricultural policy research remains vibrant and relevant in the future. Agricultural policy research includes analysis of the objectives of agricultural policy; diagnosis of actual outcomes compared to policymakers\u2019 objectives or overall social welfare; the evaluation of inter- ventions and instruments that might bring the actual situation closer to the desired policy outcome; and the reasons for policy change.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-12364", "words": "12541", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Mantino, Francesco", "title": "Rural areas between locality and global networks. Local development mechanisms and the role of policies empowering rural actors", "date": "2022", "keywords": "actors; approach; areas; capital; development; diversity; doi; economics; european; food; institutions; mantino; networks; new; oecd; policies; policy; processes; regions; role; rural; systems; territorial", "summary": "In short, the definition of rural areas related to the OECD approach does not seem to respond to the need to effectively understand rural areas diversity and the different opportunities for rural development (ESPON, 2021). Despite finding no substantive differences in why participants accessed rural networks, the three most 272 Francesco Mantino Bio-based and Applied Economics 10(4): 265-281, 2021 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-12364 common reasons for using rural development networks were to obtain advice and information, identify sources of funding, and share local learning and experience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-12411", "words": "13987", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Mazzocchi, Mario; Capacci, Sara; Biondi, Beatrice", "title": "Causal inference on the impact of nutrition policies using observational data", "date": "2022", "keywords": "att; average; causal; control; data; doi; economics; effects; estimate; evaluation; example; food; health; impact; inference; information; journal; methods; model; nutrition; outcome; policies; policy; time; treatment; variable", "summary": "Public invest- ments on more broadly representative and durable pro- spective cohort studies would generate more knowledge on policy effects than what a century of studies on caus- al inference has allowed us to do. The call for evidence-based policy decision has generated an exponen- tial growth in food policy evaluations over the last decade.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-12558", "words": "21965", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Nenci, Silvia; Fusacchia, Ilaria; Giunta, Anna; Montalbano, Pierluigi; Pietrobelli, Carlo", "title": "Mapping global value chain participation and positioning in agriculture and food: stylised facts, empirical evidence and critical issues", "date": "2022", "keywords": "agriculture; analysis; countries; country; covid-19; data; economics; et al; evidence; exports; firms; food; global; gvc participation; gvcs; journal; level; literature; nenci; paper; participation; policy; production; sectors; supply; trade; value; value chains; working; world", "summary": "Antr\u00e0s et al. (2012) and Antr\u00e0s and Chor (2013).8 Fally\u2019s model, as well as the variation proposed by Antr\u00e0s et al. (2012), capture the average number of production stages by pegging the endpoint of the sequence at final con- sumption, which enables us to measure the distance to final demand of a product along the production chains. Con- versely, if an industry relies disproportionately on val- 8 Although the arguments used to develop the index differ in Fally (2012) and Antr\u00e0s and Chor (2013), Antr\u00e0s et al. (2012) emphasize that the resulting indexes are equivalent.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-12843", "words": "12937", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Targetti, Stefano; Marconi, Valentina; Raggi, Meri; Piorr, Annette; Villanueva, Anastacio Jos\u00e9; H\u00e4fner, Kati; Kurttila, Mikko; Letki, Natalia; Costica, Mihai; Nikolov, Dimitre; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Provision of public goods and bads by agriculture and forestry. An analysis of stakeholders\u2019 perception of factors, issues and mechanisms", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agriculture; analysis; bads; biodiversity; cluster; csrs; doi; economics; factors; forestry; goods; issues; land; mechanisms; perception; pgbs; policy; provision; quality; services; stakeholders", "summary": "Variable Cluster 1-\u201cPositivists\u201d Cluster 2-\u201cHolistics\u201d Cluster 3-\u201cNaturalists\u201d Cluster 4-\u201cAgrarians\u201d % of stakeholders 18 37 24 21 PGs PBs PGs PBs PGs PBs PGs PBs Landscape and scenery 6.6 3.3 7.6 8.0 7.7 5.4 5.8 4.3 Farmland biodiversity 7.8 4.8 7.7 8.2 7.4 6.9 4.6 5.4 Water quality and availability 8.1 4.2 8.7 8.3 7.4 6.6 4.3 5.1 Air quality 6.8 5.7 8.5 8.2 4.6 3.9 5.4 3.5 Soil functionality 8.2 3.8 8.7 8.0 5.8 5.9 4.5 6.2 Climate stability 7.5 6.4 8.3 7.9 5.5 5.1 5.5 4.5 Resilience to flooding landslides and fire (%) 7.8 4.8 7.9 8.2 3.6 3.8 5.6 4.1 Rural viability and vitality 6.1 4.5 8.0 7.3 6.4 2.8 6.7 3.7 Quality and security of products (food. N. % Research/ academics 27 38% Public officers 21 30% NGOs 9 13% Consultant/ agronomists 8 11% Farmers/foresters (incl.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-12912", "words": "20737", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Esposti, Roberto", "title": "The co-evolution of policy support and farmers behaviour. An investigation on Italian agriculture over the 2008-2019 period", "date": "2022", "keywords": "behaviour; bio; cap; cap support; economics; esposti; evolution; fadn; farmers; farms; income; investigation; italian; net; period; pillar; policy; quartile; sample; support; treatment", "summary": "At the same time, however, 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total CAP support (000 \u20ac) - left scale Avg. per farm CAP support in nominal terms (000 \u20ac) - right scale Avg. per farm CAP support in real (2010 prices) terms (000 \u20ac) - right scale Figure 1. It can be argued that these reform steps share the same three fundamental objectives (Frascarelli, 2020, 2021; Coderoni et al., 2021): farm income support (or protection); farm competitiveness through (more) market orientation, i.e., (more) product diversification; larger and better public (mostly environmental) good provision by farms.6 In Italy, the decoupling of I Pillar support (the so- called Fischler Reform) was firstly introduced in 2005.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13178", "words": "12405", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Meloni, Cesare; Rocchi, Benedetto; Severini, Simone", "title": "A systematic literature review on the rural-urban well-being gap in Europe", "date": "2023", "keywords": "areas; bock; countries; differences; et al; europe; gap; health; high; income; life; oecd; quality; quantitative; results; review; rural; shucksmith et; studies; urban", "summary": "These results seem to indicate that high- https://doi.org/10.36253/bae-13178 313A systematic literature review on the rural-urban economic well-being gap in Europe Bio-based and Applied Economics 12(4): 261-304, 2023 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-13178 income individuals, considering rural areas as places characterized by a better quality of life, leave urban areas and settle in more rural areas (Vigan\u00f3 et al., 2019; Zwiers & Koster, 2015). Keywords: well-being, rural areas, PRISMA, income gap, Europe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13289", "words": "10783", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Geoghegan, Cathal; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Loughrey, Jason", "title": "The local economic impact of climate change mitigation in agriculture", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agriculture; beef; cattle; clare; county; data; economic; emissions; farm; farmers; farming; impact; ireland; mitigation; model; output; o\u2019donoghue; reduction; sector; west", "summary": "Table 6 shows the percentage of beef cattle farms that are considered viable with and without the 10% reduction in methane emis- sions. The number of beef cattle farms in Co. Clare considered viable is also reduced by 9% as a result of the mitigation measures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13404", "words": "29683", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Squarcina, Margherita; Romano, Donato", "title": "The impact of COVID-19 on household income and participation in the agri-food value chain: Evidence from Ethiopia", "date": "2023", "keywords": "ak 0; covid-19; d 0; e 0; eff; effects; employment; ethiopia; farm; food; household; impact; income; round; ry 0; time; tio 0; total; value; variable", "summary": "The impact of COVID-19 on household income and participation in the agri-food value chain: Evidence from Ethiopia Margherita Squarcina1,2,*, Donato Romano1 1 Department of Economics and Management, Universita Degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy 2 Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-Universi- ty, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany *Corresponding author: margherita.squarcina@uni-goettingen.de Abstract. Using a longitudinal dataset from Ethiopia, composed of a pre-COVID base- line and six follow-up phone-based surveys, this paper estimates the COVID-19-induced change in household income and job participation, tracing its evolution throughout seven months after the pandemic onset.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13412", "words": "188", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "AAVV, AAVV", "title": "Acknowledgements", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bio; economics", "summary": "Bio -based and A ppl ied Economics BAE Bio-based and Applied Economics 11(1): 89, 2022 | e-ISSN 2280-6e172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-13412 Open access, article published by Firenze University Press under CC-BY-4.0 License. Firenze University Press | www.fupress.com/bae Acknowledgements The Editorial Board thank sincerely all of whom have acted as discussants and reviewers for articles published in Volume 10 No. 1, 2, 3, 4 of Bio-based and Applied Economics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13424", "words": "8670", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Ceriani, Clarisse; Djouak, Amar; Chaillard, Marine", "title": "How do farmers\u2019 pluriactivity projects evolve?", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agriculture; children; farm; farmers; individual; job; motivations; pluriactivity; projects; strategy; time; work; years", "summary": "To conclude, this pilot study is the first step in a long-run study about the organization, adaptation, and sustainability of farm pluriactivity. Indeed, we believe that farm pluriactivity is becoming more and more com- mon among farmers due to market price fluctuations and agricultural crises that can discourage young farm- ers to take over the family farm.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13436", "words": "13433", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Onyenekwe, Chinasa Sylvia; Opata, Patience Ifeyinwa; Ume, Chukwuma Otum; Sarpong, Daniel Bruce; Egyir, Irene Susana", "title": "Heterogeneity of adaptation strategies to climate shocks: Evidence from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria", "date": "2023", "keywords": "access; adaptation; adaptation strategies; adoption; change; change adaptation; climate; climate change; crop; diversification; economics; et al; farmers; farming; fishing; households; livelihood; management; nigeria; region; strategy; study", "summary": "The impor- tance of mainstreaming climate change adaptation into farming activities for sustainable development is evident, and considerable research has investigated the determi- nants of adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among farmers in the global south, although reviews reveal mixed evidence thus far (Bezner Kerr et al., 2018; Fosu-Mensah et al., 2012; Ume et al., 2021; Zazu & Man- derson, 2020). However, our finding is consistent with the findings of Belay & Fekadu (2021), Diallo et al., (2021) and Al-Amin et al., (2019) who found that social capital negatively influences farm- 29Heterogeneity of adaptation strategies to climate shocks: Evidence from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria Bio-based and Applied Economics 12(1): 17-35, 2023 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-13436 ers\u2019 adoption of climate change adaptation strategies such as fertilizer, short duration and drought tolerant varieties.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13464", "words": "14883", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Sabbagh, Maria; Gutierrez, Luciano", "title": "Farmers\u2019 acceptance of a micro-irrigation system: A focus group study", "date": "2023", "keywords": "acceptance; agricultural; bekaa; et al; farmers; focus; group; irrigation; irrigation system; lebanon; micro; micro irrigation; new; participants; potato; system; technology; use; water", "summary": "From the analysis, performance expectancy, effort expectancy and facilitating conditions emerged as the three most prominent factors which influenced the farmers\u2019 acceptance and adoption of micro-irrigation systems. Further, micro-irrigation systems allow for a high level of control of chemical applications and weed and disease reduction due to limited wetted area.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13473", "words": "12697", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Prazeres, Ibrahim; Lucas, Maria Raquel ; Marta-Costa, Ana; Henriques, Pedro Dami\u00e3o", "title": "Organic cocoa farmer\u2019s strategies and sustainability", "date": "2023", "keywords": "access; cocoa; crop; development; economics; et al; farmers; ith; livelihood; livelihood strategies; mono; multi; perception; prazeres; production; strategies; strategy; sustainability; value", "summary": "Diversifica- tion of livelihood strategies could lead to wellbeing, poverty and climate mitigation. This paper attempted to explore the nexus between livelihood strategies and sustainability perception, households\u2019 organic cocoa dependency, and poverty.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13475", "words": "9288", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Dei\u00dfler, Luzia; Mausch, Kai; Karanja, Alice; McMullin, Stepha; Grote, Ulrike", "title": "A complex web of interactions: Personality traits and aspirations in the context of smallholder agriculture", "date": "2023", "keywords": "aspirations; characteristics; context; development; economics; education; et al; factors; head; household; income; personality; personality traits; scale; smallholder; traits", "summary": "Similar to educational aspirations, younger respondents also have higher income aspirations, in line with a previous study on aspirations in rural Kenya (LaRue et al., 2021). Factor Loadings of Measurement Model. A. Estimates of factor loadings Factors Items Standardized factor loadings SE p-value SMC Agreeableness forgiving 0.49 0.07 <0.01 0.24 considerate 0.50 0.07 <0.01 0.25 Openness artistic 0.52 0.06 <0.01 0.27 imagination 0.80 0.07 <0.01 0.64 Conscientiousness thorough 0.40 0.07 <0.01 0.16 efficient 0.60 0.09 <0.01 0.35 Extraversion talkative 0.43 0.07 <0.01 0.18 outgoing 0.74 0.08 <0.01 0.55 Neuroticism worrying 0.48 0.55 0.38 0.23 nervous 0.80 0.89 0.37 0.63 Aspirations educ. aspirations 0.72 0.09 <0.01 0.51 inc. aspirations 0.33 0.09 <0.01 0.11 soc.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13479", "words": "8631", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Seegers, Ronja; Winter, Etti; Grote, Ulrike", "title": "Exploring the effectiveness of serious games in strengthening smallholders\u2019 motivation to plant different trees on farms: evidence from rural Rwanda", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agroforestry; et al; farmers; farms; game; knowledge; motivation; plant; planting; playing; rpg; species; study; trees", "summary": "Despite the numerous benefits of trees, however, adop- tion rates among smallholder farmers remain low in many Sub-Saharan African countries (Amare & Darr, 2020; Ndlovu & Borrass, 2021). Besides the importance to address such exter- nal barriers, researchers and policy-makers should not ignore the intrinsic motivation of smallholder farmers to adopt agroforestry systems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13482", "words": "9993", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Pagliacci, Francesco; Zavalloni, Matteo", "title": "The political economy determinants of agri-environmental funds in the European Rural Development Programmes", "date": "2024", "keywords": "agri; budget; determinants; development; economics; economy; environment; european; funds; goals; level; policies; policy; rdp; rural; share; variables", "summary": "However, the variation in the polity level decision making, within the same policy framework, enables to explore the effect of decentraliza- tion on (agri-) environmental policies and hence to add results to the increasing literature on environmental pol- icy decentralization (Fredriksson and Wollscheid, 2014) and more in general on the environmental federalism (Shobe, 2020). Agri- environmental policies in the EU and United States: A comparison.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13504", "words": "14383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Hurtado, Antonio R.; Berbel, Julio", "title": "Learning, knowledge, and the role of government: a qualitative system dynamics analysis of Andalusia\u2019s circular bioeconomy", "date": "2023", "keywords": "analysis; andalusia; bioeconomy; bioenergy; biomass; biomass resources; bioproducts; circular; development; dynamics; economics; et al; government; innovation; investment; knowledge; market; new; production; resources; sector; system; system dynamics; technology", "summary": "Keywords: bioeconomy, system dynamics, knowledge, innovation systems, govern- ment. However, the inner dynamics of innovation systems remain somewhat unex- plored, largely because innovation studies have often pursued a linear thinking approach while the innovation process is known to follow non-linear paths and involve feedback loops across all the stages.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13516", "words": "8718", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Russo, Simone; Phali, Lerato; Prosperi, Maurizio", "title": "Dealing with endogeneity in risk analysis within the stochastic frontier approach in agricultural economics: A scoping review", "date": "2023", "keywords": "analysis; approach; economics; efficiency; endogeneity; et al; frontier; journal; production; productivity; review; risk; stochastic; technical", "summary": "Production risks stem from the natural growth processes and are also related to weather and climatic conditions. More recently, Kumbhakar (2002) generalized the approach proposed by the previous authors by estimating a model which includes production risk, technical efficiency, and pro- ducers\u2019 attitude toward risk.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13517", "words": "1416", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Scoppola, Margherita", "title": "Agriculture, food and global value chains: issues, methods and challenges", "date": "2022", "keywords": "agri; chain; food; gvc; value", "summary": "They conclude by discussing some critical issues faced by agriculture and food GVC concerning trade policies, technological innovation and the COVID crises. Swinnen, J., Maertens, M. (2007) Globalization, privatiza- tion, and vertical coordination in food value Agricul- tural Economics 37(2), 89\u2013102. Swinnen, J., Vandeplas, A. (2015) Price transmission in modern agricultural value chains: some conceptual issues in Steve Mc Corriston (ed) Food Price Dynam- ics and Price Adjustment in the EU, Oxford Academ- ic: Oxford, UK; Pages 147\u2013166.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13521", "words": "11639", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Wane, Abdrahmane; Aliou Diouf, Mballo; Cabrelle Lauriane , Dzoukou Homsi; Pathe, Diakhate; Rahimatou , Memboup", "title": "Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the Sahel: the case of agropastoral systems in Senegal", "date": "2023", "keywords": "age; animals; average; cattle; economic; female; food; food loss; livestock; loss; losses; male; market; number; phase; price; reduction; rewane; sahel; sale; sheep; species; wane; xof; years", "summary": "Food loss is a critical issue in Africa, but investigation has mainly been limited to quantity loss. While pro- ductivity gaps have been documented, food loss in the livestock sector has received far less attention.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13534", "words": "16464", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Moukam, Claudiane Yanick; Atewamba, Calvin", "title": "Incorporating expert knowledge in the estimate of farmers\u2019 opportunity cost of supplying environmental services in rural Cameroon", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agroforestry; analysis; bayesian; bio; cameroon; compensation; cost; data; distribution; economics; environmental; estimate; et al; expert; farmers; information; knowledge; non; opportunity; practices; preferences; prior; services; survey; values; wta", "summary": "Conducting research to assess farmer preferences and expectations, as well as estimating farmers\u2019 willingness to accept compensation (WTA) for providing environmental services, is essential in this context. This infor- mation helps deconstruct farmer preferences and iden- tify factors that affect the WTA.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13628", "words": "9077", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Pagliacci, Francesco; Fasano, Francesco", "title": "Does the presence of inner areas matter for the registration of new Geographical Indications? Evidence from Italy", "date": "2023", "keywords": "areas; count; development; doi; et al; food; gis; indications; italy; model; municipalities; municipality; quality; registration; type", "summary": "In particular, this study explores if this opportunity is actually exploited by Italian inner areas. Thus, in the case of Italian inner areas, not even the NSIA has been able to revert these weaknesses, hence turning into a still too limited exploitation of GI registration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13745", "words": "7390", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Tappi, Marco; Carucci, Federica; Gagliardi, Anna; Gatta, Giuseppe; Giuliani, Marcella Michela; Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano", "title": "Earliness, phenological phases and yield-temperature relationships: evidence from durum wheat in Italy", "date": "2023", "keywords": "crop; durum; economics; et al; maximum; minimum; region; temperature; weather; wheat; yield", "summary": "This aspect may play a decisive role in assessing of the yield-temperature relationship and, hence, both on farmers decisions (e.g., choice of earliness) and policymakers to plan risk man- agement policies. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Results display a strong relationship between durum wheat yields and temperatures among differ- ent earliness, focusing on the each phenological phase (Table 4, more details in the Table 7, in the Appendix). The levels and changes in temperatures affect durum wheat yields in several ways.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13868", "words": "6626", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Tetere, Vineta; Peerlings , Jack; Dries , Liesbeth", "title": "The forest-based bioeconomy in Latvia: economic and environmental importance", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bioeconomy; co2; emissions; employment; fbb; forest; forestry; ghg; latvia; output; production; products; table; total; value; wood", "summary": "In the rest of the paper, we indicate these three product catego- ries as forest products (A02), wood (C16), and furniture (C31/32) products. In Latvia we see that in 2015 24.27% of the domes- tically produced forestry products (CPA code A02) are used in the production of wood products (CPA code C16) being the largest user after the production of for- estry products itself (39.30%).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13925", "words": "28584", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Kremmydas, Dimitrios; Ciaian, Pavel; Baldoni, Edoardo", "title": "Modeling conversion to organic agriculture with an EU-wide farm model", "date": "2023", "keywords": "adoption; agriculture; approach; bae-13925; bio; cap; conversion; costs; crop; doi; economics; et al; europe; exogenous; factors; fadn; farm; farm model; farmers; farming; feed; forest; https://doi.org/10.36253/bae-13925; ifm; income; issn; level; livestock; management; model; nitrogen; numeric; organic; production; share; specialist; table; target", "summary": "organic payments) +3.8% -1.2% +3.6% -1.3% Output Value +2.9% -2.3% +2.8% -2.2% Crops specific costs -5.3% Central Europe North Central Europe South Northern Europe Southern Europe UK & Ireland Wheat +60% +45% +20% +6% +72% Maize +59% +39% +35% +8% +35% Other cereals +48% +26% +11% +5% +57% Oilseeds +31% +27% +13% +8% +20% Sugar beet +2% +100% +51% +51% +51% Vegetables +56% +114% +30% +19% +98% Fruits +39%", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13930", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Dentoni, Domenico; Cucchi, Carlo; Roglic, Marija; Lubberink, Rob; Bender-Salazar, Rahmin; Manyise, Timothy", "title": "Systems Thinking, Mapping and Change in Food and Agriculture", "date": "2023", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Opera Microsoft Edge Safari Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "bae-13941", "words": "9690", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Tyllianakis, Emmanouil", "title": "Assessing the Landscape Recovery Scheme in the UK: a Q methodology study in Yorkshire, UK", "date": "2023", "keywords": "aecs; agri; defra; discourse; et al; farmers; farming; group; landscape; methodology; participants; policy; recovery; scheme; viewpoints; yorkshire", "summary": "The study offers several insights into view- points for AECS, the role of farmer groups and facilita- tors and their impact. Farmer viewpoints lean towards \u2018broad and shal- low\u2019 schemes that would have simple contract requirements and only achieve marginal gains in the delivery of agri-environmental climate public goods while still showing concern about the natural environment and its impact on farming.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-13971", "words": "13014", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Coderoni, Silvia", "title": "Key policy objectives for European agricultural policies: Some reflections on policy coherence and governance issues", "date": "2023", "keywords": "approach; bio; cap; change; climate; coderoni; coherence; commission; doi; economics; et al; european; food; governance; issues; level; objectives; oecd; offs; policies; policy; policy objectives; synergies; trade", "summary": "Three major challenges arise in achieving between PC: the incurrence of high transaction costs to detect the synergies and trade-offs between policy objectives, the dependence of synergies and trade-offs on the differ- ent instruments chosen, and the need to arrive at value judgments on the different interests involved (OECD, 2021a). If interactions arise between policy objectives, the first distinction to make is among synergies and trade- offs among them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14003", "words": "7941", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Brunori, Gianluca", "title": "Towards a new generation of (agri-) food policies", "date": "2023", "keywords": "actors; change; economics; food; generation; governance; innovation; knowledge; policies; policy; process; research; systems; transformative", "summary": "Keywords: transformative food policies, transition, policy cycle, policy mix. The design of food policies, for example, requires a big effort to involve actors and administrations belong- ing to a large variety of areas.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14016", "words": "14456", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "D'Alberto, Riccardo; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Innovative contract solutions for the Agri-Environmental-Climate Public Goods provision: Which features meet the farmers\u2019 approval? Insights from Emilia-Romagna (Italy)", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agri; contract; farmers; holding; land; measures; odds; payment; respondent; sales; self; solutions; variable", "summary": "Nowadays, AESs are largely dominated by action-based approaches addressing individual farmers, while their improvement is envisaged through a flexible mix of new instruments (Herzon et al., 2018; Olivieri et al., 2021), such as contract solutions fostering result-based pay- ment schemes or collective implementation, and solu- tions involving value chains and/or implementing new forms of land tenure systems coupled to environmental is willing to bring such a transformation to move towards a more sustainable agricultural and food system (Magrini et al., 2019). Contract solution Description Result-based In a result-based contract you receive a payment only for the delivery of environmental or climate results.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14060", "words": "19306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Esposti, Roberto", "title": "Dating common commodity price and inflation shocks with alternative approaches", "date": "2023", "keywords": "2021m12; breaks; bubbles; commodities; commodity; commodity price; cpi; economics; esposti; exceedance; gy m; indexes; inflation; levels; m et; oil; period; price; processes; series; tests; time; volatility", "summary": "Keywords: commodity prices, price volatility, explosive roots, GARCH models. The large and rapid surge of most commodity prices that started in 2021 and lasted for the whole of 2022 points to two stylised facts that have been repeatedly investigated in previous episodes of price spikes: commodity prices move together; the rise of commodity prices transmits, somehow, to the Consumer Price Index (CPI).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14125", "words": "1910", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-11", "author": "Montalbano, Pierluigi; Romano, Donato", "title": "Vulnerability and resilience to food and nutrition insecurity: A review of the literature towards a unified framework", "date": "2023", "keywords": "april; dipartimento; l\u2019economia; resilience; scienze", "summary": "Access: condition the moments of the food security distribution on any of a host of economic, physical, and social factors \u2022 Outcome: conditional probability of satisfying a normative wellbeing (e.g. FCS, HDDS, MUAC, etc.)21 Vulnerability and Resilience to Food Insecurity AIEAA Webinar, 27th April 2023 DISEI Dipartimento di scienze per l\u2019economia e l\u2019impresa Towards a unifying framework The case for a conditional moments-based approach Practical use \u2022 Targeting: possibility to set different thresholds (e.g. low probability to be above a high threshold vs. high probability to be below a very low threshold) \u2192 exclusion vs. inclusion error) \u2022 Policy impact: possibility to evaluate performance in \u2018building resilience\u2019: \u2013 specific assets (e.g., a livestock transfer), \u2013 products (e.g., insurance or credit), \u2013 infrastructure (e.g., irrigation, roads, or health clinics) 22 Vulnerability and Resilience to Food Insecurity AIEAA Webinar, 27th April 2023 DISEI Dipartimento di scienze per l\u2019economia e l\u2019impresa Policy implications \u2022 \u201ca situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life\u201d AIEAA Webinar, 27th April 2023 DISEI Dipartimento di scienze per l\u2019economia e l\u2019impresa Vulnerability \u2022 Different approaches \u2013 Vulnerability to expected poverty (VEP) (Christiaensen & Subbarao, 2001; Chauduri et al., 2002) \u2013 Vulnerability as low expected utility (VEU) (Ligon & Schechter, 2003, 2004) \u2013 Vulnerability as the threat of future poverty (VTP) (Calvo & Dercon, 2007, 2013) *", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14214", "words": "22353", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Huber, Robert; El Benni, Nadja; Finger, Robert", "title": "Lessons learned and policy implications from 20 years of Swiss agricultural policy reforms: A review of policy evaluations", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agriculture; benni; biodiversity; der; e t; economics; en t; et al; farm; farmers; finger; food; goals; huber; m en; mack; market; payments; policies; policy; production; public; review; support; swiss; switzerland", "summary": "We describe the history and the current state of Swiss agricultural policy, review evaluations of policy reforms, summarise their impact and outline the lessons learned for policy developments in other countries. In addition, Swiss agricultural policy has been a forerunner in environmental and animal welfare pro- grammes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14414", "words": "14906", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Le Gloux, Fanny; Dupraz, Pierre", "title": "Upscaling environmental incentives in the Common Agricultural Policy: an assessment of the potential of transfers from the first to second pillar", "date": "2024", "keywords": "adoption; aecm; agri; budget; cap; contract; data; economics; education; effect; farm; farming; level; livestock; measures; model; participation; payments; policy; support; transfer; uaa", "summary": "The decision Di* of farmer i to participate and the binary participation Di are defined as follows: (1) With mi*\u2208M the characteristics of the measure(s) adopted by the farm (technical requirements, payment per hectare), \u03a6i\u22650 the maximum farm-level payment the farm is eligible to for adopting mi* on all eligible surfac- es, and Pi*>0 the minimum farm-level payment trigger- ing the adoption of mi* (acceptable farm-level payment) by the farmer. If \u2203mi\u2208M,\u03a6i(mi,\u0393i,ai,ki,ei)\u2265Pi (mi,ai,ki,ei), the farmer is eligi- ble to at least one contract profitable for him or her, and the farmer decides to participate with the optimal con- tract uptake mi* such that Di*\u22650.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14444", "words": "11892", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Bradfield, Tracy; Hennessy, Thia; D'Alberto, Riccardo; Haltia, Emmi", "title": "The use of innovative contracts to provide agri-environmental public goods: Comparing attitudes between Ireland and other European countries", "date": "2023", "keywords": "action; aes; agri; collective; contract; countries; data; economics; environmental; et al; european; farmers; farms; ireland; land; land managers; managers; results; scheme; stakeholders; use", "summary": "This is impor- tant for land managers in Ireland who have relatively low levels of understanding of collective action, value chain, and land tenure contracts due to the fact that they may have had little direct experience of them. Results-based, collective action, value chain, and land tenure contracts are means to improve the management of agri-environmental public goods.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14489", "words": "14863", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Eichhorn, Theresa; Schaller, Lena; Hamunen, Katri; Runge, Tania", "title": "Exploring macro-environmental factors influencing adoption of result-based and collective agri-environmental measures: a PESTLE approach based on stakeholder statements", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agri; categories; category; collective; contracts; economics; environmental; factors; farmers; group; implementation; measures; pestle; policy; responses; result; schemes; stakeholders; statements; subcategory", "summary": "\u2013 Environmental factors impacting result-based contracts The environmental PESTLE category assembles the second most statements for result-based contracts under the subcategory of unpredictability of nature and the limited ability of farmers to have an influence on it (En02). \u2013 Environmental factors impacting collective contract solutions In the environmental PESTLE category for collective contracts, in contrast to the result-based contracts, no subcategory made it into the top twelve.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14492", "words": "13739", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Arata, Linda; Cerroni, Simone; Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Trestini, Samuele; Severini, Simone", "title": "Towards a holistic approach to sustainable risk management in agriculture in the EU: a literature review", "date": "2023", "keywords": "adoption; agriculture; crop; data; economics; et al; european; farmers; index; insurance; journal; literature; management; policy; preferences; review; risk; risk management; tools; use", "summary": "it has been shown that from 4% to 19% of the pesticide expenditure on farms is explained by farmer risk aversion behaviour (Bontemps et al., 2021). Among these, Italy, the leading country in terms of allocated budget, still records a lim- ited uptake of risk management tools (Ismea, 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14542", "words": "7017", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Farsi Aliabadi, Mohammad Mehdi; Fakari, Behzad", "title": "Economic sanctions and barley price regime change in Iran", "date": "2024", "keywords": "barley; barley price; economic; exchange; food; international; iran; market; price; price volatility; rate; regime; state; volatility", "summary": "Therefore, in this study, the influ- ence of different determinants of domestic barley price, such as international price, real effective exchange rate variation, price volatility of barley, Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict, and the existence of economic sanctions, has been investigated by applying the Markov-Switching model. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the influence of international barley price, exchange rate variation, and local barley price volatility on the possible nonlinear behavior of domestic barley price in the era of maximum pressure campaign and Russian-Ukrainian military conflict to present a suitable approach for price management.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14563", "words": "10599", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Ronzon, T\u00e9v\u00e9cia; Gurria, Patricia; Carus, Michael; Cingiz, Kutay; El-Meligi, Andrea; Hark, Nicolas; Iost, Susanne; M\u2019Barek, Robert; Philippidis, George; van Leeuwen, Myrna; Wesseler, Justus", "title": "Assessing the bioeconomy\u2019s contribution to evidence-based policy: A comparative analysis of value added measurements", "date": "2024", "keywords": "activities; approach; bioeconomy; biomass; cost; data; european; industries; industry; input; output; policy; products; share; use; value", "summary": "The Irish case illustrates a bioeconomy less oriented towards wood- en biomass, where the manufacture of bio-based chemi- cals (\u03b4r=31%) together with a strong food and beverage industry drives a 32-33% bio-based secondary sector. Output bio-based share (\u03b4p in %) 1 Manuf. of food products C10 189,000 100% 2 Agriculture A01 183,441 100% 3 Manuf. of paper and paper products C17 45,257 - 45,625 99% - 100% 4 Manuf.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14592", "words": "12107", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Baldi, Lisa; Calzolai, Sara; Arfini, Filippo; Donati, Michele", "title": "Predicting the effect of the Common Agricultural Policy post-2020 using an agent-based model based on PMP methodology", "date": "2024", "keywords": "agricultural; baseline; class; cost; crops; eco; economics; farmers; farms; land; model; organic; pmp; policy; practices; production; scenario; scheme; size; total; t\ufeffhe; use; water", "summary": "Table 3 depicts the hetero- geneity of the sample based on class of age, per farm size and percentage of organic farms, that represent almost 15% of the farms population in Emilia Romagna. For organic farms in this same age range, subsidies appear to be beneficial in the 20-50 hectare size class, although the impact of land exchange still remains a significant driver in reducing the number of small farms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14693", "words": "10094", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Krasniqi, Nol; Blancard, Stephane; Gjokaj, Ekrem; Ottaviani Aalmo , Giovanna", "title": "Modelling technical efficiency of horticulture farming in Kosovo: An application of data envelopment analysis", "date": "2023", "keywords": "agriculture; analysis; data; dea; economics; efficiency; farms; kosovo; output; production; results; scores; size; study; total; year", "summary": "According to Minviel and Latruffe (2017) direct payments are common negatively associated with farm technical efficiency. Effect of public subsi- dies on farm technical efficiency: a meta-analysis of empirical results.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14720", "words": "1196", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Arata, Linda; Menozzi, Davide", "title": "Farmers\u2019 motivations and behaviour regarding the adoption of more sustainable agricultural practices and activities", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bio; economics; farmers; strategies", "summary": "The paper authored by Dei\u00dfler et al. (2023) entitled \u201cA complex web of interactions: Personality traits and aspirations in the context of smallholder agriculture\u201d http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode 4 Bio-based and Applied Economics 12(1): 3-4, 2023 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: Linda Arata, Davide Menozzi assesses whether personality traits contribute to shap- ing the individual aspirations of smallholder farmers, and how aspirations are connected with their socio- demographic characteristics. investigates the motivations that lead farmers to diversify their income through off-farm activities, the barriers to diversifica- tion, and the management strategies for a long-lasting choice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14790", "words": "24520", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Mantziaris, Stamatis; Rozakis, Stelios; Karanikolas, Pavlos; Petsakos, Athanasios; Tsiboukas, Konstantinos", "title": "Simulating farm structural change dynamics in Thessaly (Greece) using a recursive programming model", "date": "2024", "keywords": "arima; bae-14790; bio; capital; change; costs; data; development; doi; economics; et al; farm; farm f; farm growth; farm level; farm size; forecasting; greek; growth; hectares; land; level; model; nbf; neighboring; neighboring farm; policy; price; production; programming; rental; sample; scenario; simulation; t-1; year t", "summary": "Structural changes are gradually built; therefore, farm decision models should consider the sequences within the period under study. Alternatively, farm viability can be defined accord- ing to a combination of monetary value and socio-eco- Initial conditions : Number of neighboring surviving farms, farm size distribution, available arable land at farm level, available circulating capital at farm level, capital stock at farm level, borrowed capital at farm level Farm-level data (Field survey) Farm-level optimization model : Expected Farm Gross Profit maximization under resource, policy and flexibility constraints Farm agents' expecations Quasi-rational agents\u2019 expectations for prices and crop yields OR Naive agents\u2019expecations for prices and quasi-rational agents\u2019 expectations for crop yields Out-of-sample simulations ARIMA models: Forecasting values of costs, prices, crop yields,interest rate, total arable land, and total circulating capital Linear trend model: Forecasting value of living expenditures index Farm viability algorithm: i) Optimal Farm Net Profit After Tax \u2265 Simulated Societal Consumption Benchmark of neighboring farms AND ii) Optimal Farm Growth in Equity \u2265 0 Number of neighboring surviving farms Farm size distribution Share of farmland by farm size classes Regional land use change dynamics Economic performance by farm size classes Environmental impact assessement Re-initialization of resources & farm firm growth rules of surviving farms: -Endogenous Feedback Mechanism (EFM) for resources (land, circulating capital)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14794", "words": "1194", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Zezza, Annalisa", "title": "CAP, Farm to Fork and Green Deal: policy coherence, governance, and future challenges", "date": "2023", "keywords": "coherence; food; policies; policy", "summary": "Towards a new generation of (agri- ) food policies.\u00a0 Firenze University Press | www.fupress.com/bae Editorial CAP, Farm to Fork and Green Deal: policy coherence, governance, and future challenges Annalisa Zezza CREA - Centro di ricerca Politiche e", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14827", "words": "6091", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Lasarte-L\u00f3pez, Jes\u00fas; Grassano, Nicola; M'barek, Robert; Ronzon, T\u00e9v\u00e9cia", "title": "Bioeconomy and resilience to economic shocks: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bioeconomy; employment; growth; manufacturing; pandemic; sectors; total; value", "summary": "It is worth noting that, according to Table 3, countries with a more positive or less negative GDP trend tend to be positioned in the upper half of the table when ranked by the overall growth of bioeconomy sectors, particu- larly in terms of value added. For this purpose, we conducted a paired sample t-Test to determine whether the growth of bioeconomy sectors by country in 2020 differed signifi- cantly from the average growth during the period 2014- 2019, which covers the last expansionary phase of the business cycle in the EU27 before the COVID-19 shock.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-14957", "words": "10820", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Rocchi, Benedetto; Viccaro, Mauro; Sturla, Gino", "title": "An input-output hydro-economic model to assess the economic pressure on water resources", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bodies; demand; groundwater; input; mm3; model; output; pressure; sector; supply; surface water; tuscany; water; water bodies; water demand; water resources; water supply; withdrawals", "summary": "For a better under- standing of the sectoral and total impacts, three innovations are incorporated with respect to previous literature: i) the development of a methodology for disaggregat- ing the extended water demand (blue water plus grey water) by economic sector, ii) the use of the IO side of the model to reclassify water demand by \u201cextracting\u201d and \u201cdemanding\u201d sectors, and iii) the proposition of an improved indicator of pressure on water resources based on a \u201cfeasible\u201d measure of water supply. The main innovations of our approach are: i) the development of a methodology for disaggregating the extended water demand (including grey water require- ments) by economic sector, ii) the use of the IO side of the model to reclassify water demand by \u201cextracting\u201d and \u201cdemanding\u201d sectors, and iii) the proposition of an improved indicator of pressure on water resources based on a \u201cfeasible\u201d measure of water supply.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15105", "words": "7700", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Dehghan, Mohammad; Mousavi, Seyed Nematollah; Zare, Ebrahim", "title": "Analyzing the impact of government subsidies on household welfare during economic shocks: A case study of Iran", "date": "2024", "keywords": "demand; elasticities; expenditure; food; food price; government; households; impact; income; index; iran; poverty; price; scenario; study; welfare", "summary": "The surge in food prices, both domestically and globally, has become a pressing global concern (FAO, 2021). The study calculates the welfare effects of changes in food prices and evaluates the effects of these changes 389Analyzing the impact of government subsidies on household welfare during economic shocks: A case study of Iran Bio-based and Applied Economics 13(4): 387-396, 2024 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-15105 on the poverty line and the number of poor households in Iran.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15221", "words": "12535", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Pagliacci, Francesco; Salpina, Dana", "title": "Adapting to climate change: what really drives the choices of the producers of Geographical Indications?", "date": "2024", "keywords": "adaptation; agri; area; case; change adaptation; characteristics; climate change; crop; economics; et al; farmers; food; gis; indications; management; measures; producers; production; region; respondents; strategies; study", "summary": "In an era of rapid climate change, there is an increasing call for the efforts directed at detecting best practices of climate change adaptation in agriculture and understanding the factors behind producers\u2019 willingness to implement adaptation strat- egies. In such a setting, national governments have the direct responsibility of detecting best practices, highlighting the main factors behind climate change adaptation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15333", "words": "14543", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Fraser, Iain; Fountain, Michelle T.; Holland, John M.", "title": "Crop production, the pollinator deficit and land use management: UK farm level survey results", "date": "2024", "keywords": "aep; crop; crop pollination; economics; et al; farmers; fruit; land; level; management; pollination; pollinators; production; research; respondents; results; support; survey; table; use; yield", "summary": "Crop pollination management needs flower\u2010visitor monitoring and target values. Finally, there is a knowledge gap around our understanding of current levels of farm level pollinator management activities and whether this is driven by crop production and/or AEP.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15364", "words": "11748", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Yalew, Amsalu Woldie; Nechifor , Victor; Ferrari , Emanuele", "title": "The implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine for African economies: A CGE analysis for Ethiopia", "date": "2024", "keywords": "activities; changes; commodities; commodity; consumption; crops; demand; economics; electricity; energy; et al; ethiopia; fertilizer; food; households; impacts; implications; import; petroleum; price; production; services; table; ukraine; wheat; world", "summary": "Likewise, domestic fertilizer prices increase might be larger than increases in world market fertilizer prices (Abay et al., 2024). The impacts on consumption are worse for urban households compared to rural ones except under fertilizer import price changes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15374", "words": "10506", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "CIliberti, Stefano; Frascarelli, Angelo; Martino, Gaetano; Marchini, Andrea", "title": "Exploring preferences for contractual terms in a scenario of ecological transition for the agri-food sector: a latent class approach", "date": "2024", "keywords": "choice; ciliberti; class; contracts; durum; economics; et al; evidence; farmers; food; latent; preferences; price; producers; production; quality; terms; transition; wheat", "summary": "Farmer preferences regard- ing durum wheat contracts in Italy: a discrete choice experiment. Under the conceptual and analytical lens of the Transaction Cost Economics, we explored farmers\u2019 preferences towards a variety of clauses usually adopted in production contracts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15456", "words": "10877", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Sogari, Giovanni; Wongprawmas, Rungsaran; Andreani, Giulia; Lefebvre, Michele; Pellegrini, Nicoletta; G\u00f3mez, Miguel I.; Mora, Cristina; Menozzi, Davide", "title": "Intention and behavior toward eating whole grain pasta on a college dining campus: Theory of Planned Behavior and message framing", "date": "2024", "keywords": "attitude; behavior; beliefs; consumption; control; diet; eating; food; grain pasta; health; information; intention; loss; message; month; participants; time; tpb", "summary": "Intention and behavior toward eating whole grain pasta on a college dining campus: Theory of Planned Behavior and message fram- ing. To understand the underlying factors affecting the intention and consump- tion of whole grain pasta, a survey based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was developed and administered to US college students.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15464", "words": "10330", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Gattone, Tulia", "title": "Participation of farmers in market value chains: A tailored Antr\u00e0s and Chor positioning indicator", "date": "2024", "keywords": "antr\u00e0s; chains; chor; consumption; crop; decimals; development; district; downstreamness; economics; effects; ethiopia; farmers; food; household; indicator; market; nigeria; positioning; selling; value; wave; world; yes", "summary": "Participation of farmers in market value chains: A tailored Antr\u00e0s and Chor positioning indicator. It introduces a novel downstreamness measure for rural farmers in market value chains, inspired by Antr\u00e0s and Chor\u2019s framework.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15466", "words": "12222", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Winkler, Greta; Pagano, Luciano; Vergamini, Daniele; Bartolini, Fabio", "title": "Soils and ecosystem services: policy narratives and instruments for soil health in the EU", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bio; carbon; economics; ecosystem; ecosystem services; environmental; et al; instruments; land; management; policy; policy instruments; review; services; soil; soil es; soil health; use", "summary": "Orienting the instruments Given the scarcity of results to this narrative review, we would firstly like to address methodological limita- 84 Bio-based and Applied Economics 14(1): 75-92, 2025 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-15466 Greta Winkler et al. tions concerning keyword selection and search databas- es, nevertheless the exploratory character of this study allows to expand the body of knowledge on soil policy and draw some key reflections that might be useful from an EU perspective. Aim of this study is to explore the integration of the concept of soil health and the pro- vision of soil ecosystem service by conducting i) a content analysis of EU policies and ii) a scoping review of literature over policy instruments for soil governance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15548", "words": "15193", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Russo, Silvia; Raggi, Meri; Bimbati, Barbara; Povellato, Andrea; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Farm characteristics and exogenous factors influencing the choice to buy land in Italy", "date": "2024", "keywords": "characteristics; crops; decision; economics; et al; factors; farm; farmer; growth; income; influence; investment; investment decision; land; land investment; model; purchase; rate; size; specialisation; uaa; value; variable", "summary": "Farm characteristics and exogenous factors influencing the choice to buy land in Italy. i represents the single observation, xki is the observed value of explanatory variables that described factors linked to farm characteristics, farmer Table 1 Descriptive analysis: Dimension of the unbalanced panel data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15786", "words": "11659", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Abitabile, Carla; Arzeni, Andrea; Cisilino, Federica; Orlando, Matteo", "title": "Building sustainable futures: the bio-based fertilizer case-study", "date": "2024", "keywords": "agri; analysis; bbfs; bio; chain; cib; development; drivers; et al; european; factors; fertilizers; food; future; process; production; scenarios; supply; use; waste", "summary": "Checking the consistency of BBF scenarios With the drafting of the final narratives, the analysis of the scenarios was not concluded, as it was necessary to verify that the construction and revision process had not led to inconsistent situations within each scenario and between them. Keywords: future scenarios, bio-based fertilizers, circular economy, sustainability, social-ecological transition.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-15862", "words": "6102", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Targetti, Stefano; Niedermayr, Andreas; H\u00e4fner, Kati; Schaller, Lena", "title": "New pathways for improved delivery of public goods from agriculture and forestry", "date": "2024", "keywords": "aecs; agri; bio; contract; economics; environmental; farmers; goods; land; policy; solutions; study; value", "summary": "Finally, the study calls for further research to refine the modelling of environmental contract adoption, highlighting the need to consider intrinsic farmer motivations and locational factors more comprehensively. In conclu- sion, the study suggests that decreasing direct payments with little environmental conditionality and increasing targeted payments for environmental public goods can enhance the adoption of sustainable farming practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16107", "words": "9961", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Tetere, Vineta; Peerlings, Jack; Dries, Liesbeth", "title": "The Importance of Wooden Biomass in the Transition to a Bioeconomy in Latvia", "date": "2025", "keywords": "activities; change; commodity; demand; energy; industry; input; latvia; model; price; production; supply; tax; use; value", "summary": "663.6 -2.9 -0.8 Value added in biobased energy industry (\ud835\udc34\ud835\udc43\ud835\udc45\ud835\udc4f) 34.2 27.7 10.3 Value added in forestry (\ud835\udc34\ud835\udc43\ud835\udc45\ud835\udc4f) 352.8 -0.2 -0.1 Prices (index, so no unit) Price of non-biobased energy production (price of \ud835\udc37\ud835\udc43\ud835\udc54) 1.00 1.2 -0.8 Price of biobased energy production (price of \ud835\udc37\ud835\udc43\ud835\udc54) 1.00 9.4 -28.1 I: Tax and subsidy (% change) Scenario II: Technological change (% change) Production* and value added** in million euro of the base year Production of non-biobased energy industry (\ud835\udc4c\ud835\udc4f) 1,766.3 -6.0 -1.2 18 Production of biobased energy industry (\ud835\udc4c\ud835\udc4f) 110.3 57.8 57.9 Forestry production (\ud835\udc4c\ud835\udc4f) 938.9 -0.3 -0.1 Value added in non-biobased energy industry (\ud835\udc34\ud835\udc43\ud835\udc45\ud835\udc4f)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16172", "words": "11983", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Frontuto, Vito; Felici, Tommaso; Andreoli, Vania; Bagliani, Marco Maria; Corsi, Alessandro", "title": "Is there an Animal Food Kuznets Curve, and does it matter?", "date": "2024", "keywords": "animal; animal food; capita; consumption; day; economics; et al; food; food consumption; health; income; increase; kuznets; meat; meat consumption; meat protein; plant; price; protein consumption; proteins; sources; table; variables", "summary": "The estimates indicate that a thousand dol- lar increase in per capita income induces a 0.725 g/ day increase in meat protein consumption. At low-income levels, a rising income allows consumption of \u201cnon-meat\u201d ani- mal-based proteins (eggs, dairy, fish, etc., generally cheap- er than meat) in addition to plant-based ones, as also sug- gested by the higher income parameter of animal-based than meat protein consumption.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16199", "words": "7778", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Tleubayev, Alisher; Syzdykov, Yerzhan", "title": "Do agroholdings cope better with the agency problem? Empirical evidence from corporate farms in Russia", "date": "2024", "keywords": "agency; agroholdings; costs; economics; evidence; farms; food; journal; performance; production; roa; ros; russia; variables", "summary": "Keywords: agroholding, corporate farm, agency cost, farm performance, Russia. Since the market value-based measures for the farms used in this study are not publicly availa- ble, we focus on two widely used accounting-based indi- cators to measure farm performance: return on assets (ROA) and return on sales (ROS) (Adams & Ferreira, 2009; Ehrhardt et al., 2003; Liu et al., 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16399", "words": "8775", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Mandanas, Zisis; Petropoulos, Dimitrios; Apostolopoulos, Nikolaos", "title": "Input interactions and structural dynamics in Greek agriculture productivity", "date": "2025", "keywords": "agricultural; breaks; capital; cobb; costs; douglas; economic; factors; function; greece; greek; inputs; labor; output; production; productivity; sector; variable", "summary": "From 1981 to 2005, labor and fixed capital had positive elasticities, contributing positively to agricultural production but with decreasing returns to scale. In this context, capital is a decisive factor for agricultural production, fulfilling a dual role as a source of financing and as a shaper of production processes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16400", "words": "10254", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Adenuga, Adewale Henry; Jack, Claire", "title": "Factors influencing land rental market participation: a case study in Northern Ireland", "date": "2025", "keywords": "et al; factors; farmers; farming; land; land rental; long; market; model; participation; rent; rental; renting; study; term; use", "summary": "The farmers were classified into six strata based on farmland ownership and rental status: 120 those farming solely on owned land, those farming both on owned and rented land, those farming on 121 owned and rented land while also leasing out land, those farming only on owned but also leasing out 122 land, those farming exclusively on rented land and landowners who lease out all their land. While this may be linked to the fact that 472 sustainable agricultural practices often require long-term investment in land, an alternative 473 explanation is that more intensive farming systems, which tend to generate higher profits, 474 create a greater demand for rented land.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16403", "words": "11561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Shin, Mika; Loughrey, Jason; Dillon, Emma; Kinsella, Anne", "title": "The social and economic determinants of farm succession in Ireland", "date": "2025", "keywords": "dairy; doi; et al; factors; farm; farm succession; farmers; farming; ireland; journal; land; model; presence; succession; variable", "summary": "1 The social and economic determinants of farm succession in 1 Ireland 2 Mika Wakamatsu Shin1 *, Jason Loughrey2 , Emma Dillon2 and Anne Kinsella2 3 4 Affiliation: 5 1 Currently freelance. This study explores the multifaceted factors influencing farm succession in Ireland, 29 emphasising the interaction among economic, social, and environmental aspects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16423", "words": "3498", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Pagliacci, Francesco; Raimondi, Valentina; Salvatici, Luca", "title": "Editorial. Guns, Germs and Climate: Food Security and Food Systems in a Risky World", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bio; change; climate; economics; farmers; food; policy; production; security; world", "summary": "Though food prices have since fallen from their peaks, the crisis persists and has resulted in expanding numbers of people affected by hunger and malnutrition, especially the poorest, who spend over 60% of their income on food. These crises overlap and amplify disruptive impacts on food production and mar- kets, at different territorial scales.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16734", "words": "8627", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Sad\u0142owski, Adrian", "title": "From subsidy to land rent: how production-linked payments shape factor remuneration in agriculture", "date": "2025", "keywords": "agriculture; area; coefficient; economics; increase; land; land rent; line; model; payments; policy; production; production factors; products; remuneration; state; support; unit", "summary": "The theory explaining the mechanism by which production-linked payments influence the production sphere (the level of engagement of agricultural land) and the distribution sphere (the remuneration of production factors) was developed using economic modeling. The identification of the mechanism for converting production-linked payments into remuneration for production factors created a frame- work for describing and measuring the phenomenon of \u201ccapturing\u201d the support provided to farmers by the own- ers of agricultural land.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16752", "words": "10871", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Jankuloska, Viktorija; Mukanov, Blagoja; Zhivachka, Angela; Milosavljeva , Jovana; Petkovski, Mario; Popovska, Tanja", "title": "Towards sustainable business models in the circular bioeconomy: The case of bio-based fertilizers", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adoption; bbfs; bio; bioeconomy; business; creation; customer; et al; farmers; fertilizers; market; models; nutrient; production; products; quality; research; resources; sustainability; value; waste", "summary": "Circulation 720 of nutrients through bio-based fertilizer products: Perspectives from farmers, suppliers, and 721 civil society. Customer-related components, however, remain relatively underexplored (Hatvani et al., 121 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16753", "words": "13448", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Waring, Tanisha; Biagini, Luigi; Bozzola, Martina; Severini, Simone", "title": "Weathering the Storm: A Systematic Review of Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture. Methods, Metrics, and Impacts", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adaptation; adaptation strategies; agriculture; analysis; changes; climate; climate change; climate impacts; crop; economic; effects; et al; farm; farmers; harkness et; impacts; journal; level; literature; production; reidsma et; research; review; strategies; studies; term; wang et; weather; yield", "summary": "Ruiz et al, 2019; Wittwer et al, 2023; Bowles et al, 2020; Alayon-Gamboa et al, 2011; Domingos et al, 2021 Individual farm 12 Auci et al, 2023; Bouttes et al, 2019; Di Falco et al, 2014; Gafsi et al, 1997; Jordan et al, 2021; L\u00e1ng et al, 2023; Mukherjee et al, 2013; Pexas et al, 2021; Vanschoenwinkel et al, 2018; Perez- Uribe et al, 2024; Skidmore et al, 2022; Zhang et al, 2018 Region/county level 20 Akbar et al, 2020; Burke & Emerick, 2016; Harkness et al, 2023; Kaugmann et al, 1997; Lee et al, 2016; Li et al, 2020; Lu et al, 2020; Parker et al, 2017; Patanita et al, 1029; Polsky et al, 2011; Smith et al, 2021; Wang et al, 2016; Wang et al, 2021; Jacobs et al. 2022; Kath et al, 2018; Whitbread et al, 2015; Zhang et al, 2015; Karapinar et al, 2020; Wheeler et al, 2014; Won et al, 2024 National level 3 Michalopoulos et al, 2020; Harkness et al, 2021; Matsushita et al, 2016 Other (e.g. European level) 4 Reidsma et al, 2007; Examples of net benefit of adaptation by strategy Main adaptation strategies Studies Country Examples of net benefit of adaptation Irrigation & water storage Akbar et al, 2020; Auci et al, 2023; Foudi et al, 2011; Jordan et al, 2021; Li et al, 2020; Lu et al, 2020; Patanita et al, 2019; P\u00e9rez-Uribe et al, 2024; Polsky et al, 2001; Quiroga et al, 2014; Reidsma et al, 2009a; Reidsma et al, 2009b; Reidsma et al, 2010; Smith et al, 2021; Vanschoenwinkel et al, 2018; Wang et al, 2016; Zhang et al, 2015 USA; Italy; France; Chile; USA; USA; Portugal; Colombia; USA; Spain; Europe; Europe; Europe; USA; Europe; USA; USA Irrigation leads to a yield increase of 12.28% per acre (Li et al, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16754", "words": "12027", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Minuzzo, Tobia; Pagliacci, Francesco", "title": "Expenditure allocation for Rural Development interventions: main trends and patterns in the choices of the Italian Regions under the CAP 2023-2027", "date": "2025", "keywords": "agricultural; allocation; analysis; bio; cap; cluster; development; doi; economics; environmental; european; expenditure; funds; interventions; italian; national; period; policy; programming; regions; rural; total; variables", "summary": "As a conclusive test, the analysis of correlation coef- ficients suggests that demographic variables, economic variables, characteristics of the agricultural sector, and the allocation of funds in the past programming period correlate with current RD expenditure allocation. The results of the ANOVA suggest no significant dif- ferences between the four clusters regarding the percent- age allocation of \u201cSpecific disadvantages\u201d interventions, \u201cYoung farmers\u201d interventions and the overall allocation of RD Policy funds.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16762", "words": "5958", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Mann, Stefan; Benincore, Mauricio; Hiltbrunner, J\u00fcrg", "title": "Public information instead of vertical integration: Exploring \u201crecommended variety lists\u201d in the Swiss maize seed market ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "contractors; experience; farmers; information; knowledge; maize; market; rvl; seed; source; switzerland; varieties; variety", "summary": "While there is also substitution between extension as a source for variety information and the importance of the RVL, as indicated by the \u201cExtension\u201d variable, this effect is only half as strong as for the previous two. Figure 1: Distribution of answers to the variable \u201cKnowledge\u201d Table 2: Ranking of information sources for maize seed varieties with 1= most important and 5= least important.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16777", "words": "9514", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Okoye, Ogochukwu Felicitas; Righi, Selene; Sermoneta , Colomba; Brunori, Gianluca; Moretti, Michele", "title": "Towards Digital Farming: Exploring Technological Integration in Agricultural Practices of a sample of Italian livestock farms.", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adoption; agriculture; animal; cattle; digital; et al; farmers; farming; farms; innovations; livestock; management; precision; systems; technologies; technology; tools", "summary": "Recognizing this gap, our study explores 20 the current state and determinants of digital technology adoption across Italian livestock farms, 21 examining key factors and broader trends in the industry. The primary goal of this research is to explore the extent of digitalization among Italian livestock 82 farms and identify the factors influencing digital technology adoption.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16785", "words": "9502", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Vaquero Pi\u00f1eiro, Cristina; Ojeda, Maria Laura; Gomez, Exequiel Romero; Salvatici, Luca", "title": "Agriculture and Environment: the inclusion of Italy in the SIMPLE and SIMPLE-G models ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "baldos; crop; cropland; data; database; demand; food; hertel; italy; land; level; model; prices; production; simple; use; water", "summary": "As far as endogenous and exogenous variables are concerned, the model endogenously determines agricultural crop production and prices. 2. SIMPLE AND SIMPLE-G models for agriculture 2.1 Existing specifications and applications In recent years, a growing body of literature has aimed at extending equilibrium models to consider the complex interdependencies governing global crop production, land and water use, and food demand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16801", "words": "5346", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Mazzulla, Francesco; Raggi, Meri", "title": "Do economic performance and innovation have a relationship? Evidence from Operational Groups in the Italian agri-food sector", "date": "2025", "keywords": "agri; economic; farms; food; innovation; ogs; performance; sector; study; treatment", "summary": "Farm performance is enhanced by a stimulating environment. We combine data on OG\u2019s collected from the Innovarurale website, with financial information from the ORBIS database for the period 2013-2022, to assess farm performance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16852", "words": "7783", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Moino, Francesca; Giacardi, Alessandro; Califano, Giovanbattista; Cagliero, Roberto", "title": "Bridging the Gap: The Impact of Compensatory Measures on Mountain Farming in Piedmont", "date": "2025", "keywords": "analysis; areas; cattle; development; farming; farms; gap; income; mountain; non; scale; sheep; support", "summary": "While some research aligns with our findings, demonstrating ANC 335 supports\u2019 limited role in bolstering mountain farm income (Ferto et al., 2022; Wieliczko et al., 2018), 336 other studies have highlighted its effectiveness in other agricultural types, such as cereals (Klima et 337 al., 2021), or in boosting income for organic farms, especially small-scale (Veveris et al., 2014). Future 361 policy adjustments should consider the balance between financial sustainability and the actual impact 362 of interventions on mountain farm incomes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16905", "words": "7029", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Ferro, Andrea Miriana; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide; Targetti, Stefano", "title": "Impacts of heat waves on agricultural workers: An analysis of adaptation measures", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adaptation; adaptation measures; et al; farms; heat; heat waves; hours; managers; measures; productivity; respondents; waves; workers; working", "summary": "Please cite this article as: Ferro AM., Raggi M., Viaggi D. Targetti S. (2025 Impacts of heat waves on agricultural workers: An analysis of adaptation measures, Bio-Based and Applied Economics, Just Accepted. 2.3 Identification of adaptation measures and data collection We conducted a literature review to identify the adaptation measures able to reduce the impacts of heat waves on agricultural workers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16911", "words": "9663", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Martella, Angelo; Pietrangeli, Francesca; Biagetti, Elisa; Pancino, Barbara; Franco, Silvio", "title": "Embedding the value of natural capital into food: a bet for local policies in marginal areas", "date": "2025", "keywords": "alto; areas; balance; development; environmental; et al; footprint; indicators; lag; land; lazio; marginality; production; sustainability; system; use", "summary": "Rate Income p.c. (\u20ac) IMAR Area (km2) Agricultural area (km2) Population Acquapendente 3.11 -8.9% 13,117 4 131.71 46.08 5,271 Arlena di Castro 3.21 -2.9% 11,001 4 21.87 14.88 842 Canino 2.44 -0.7% 10,806 4 123.50 76.27 5,036 Cellere 4.02 -17.7% 11,138 5 32.70 25.46 1,071 Farnese 4.25 -19.4% 11,924 5 52.38 23.78 1,393 Gradoli 4.49 -16.3% 11,607 5 37.50 7.11 1,252 Grotte di Castro 3.82 -20.2% 13,389 4 33.42 16.88 2,369 Ischia di Castro 2.92 -13.2% 10,966 4 104.95 55.94 2,138 Latera 6.23 -25.0% 12,063 4 22.66 9.24 767 Onano 3.33 -23.6% 10,215 5 24.60 11.29 893 Piansano 3.69 -13.2% 11,898 4 26.61 18.39 1,928 Proceno 5.89 -17.6% 12,032 4 41.90 26.36 521 San Lorenzo Nuovo 3.21 -2.6% 12,001 4 27.99 8.51 2,013 Tessennano 5.39 -33.1% 11,961 5 14.60 11.40 281 Valentano 2.91 -5.7% 13,297 3 43.29 26.75 2,768 Total 739.68 378.34 28,543 Source: Our elaboration on ISTAT and MF (2024a)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-16929", "words": "12283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Bianchi, Andrea; Corbo, Chiara; Parigi, Francesco; Cesari de Maria, Sandra; Renga, Filippo Maria; Tumino, Angela", "title": "Assessing the social impacts of Digital Agriculture Technology Solutions: a practical tool", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adoption; agriculture; assessment; datss; development; et al; farmers; farming; framework; impacts; literature; research; sustainability; technologies; technology; tool", "summary": "262 From a total of 857 publications found on Scopus, 15 were excluded because they were duplicates, 263 while 687 were excluded because they addressed the topic of social impacts only superficially or 264 failed to provide impact areas, indicators, or tools related to the social aspects of digital technologies 265 in agriculture. A total of 155 papers were included in an in-depth analysis to extract relevant 266 information, such as existing frameworks, tools and KPIs on social impacts of DATSs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17008", "words": "13018", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Jena, Pratap Kumar; Paltasingh, Kirtti Ranjan; Mohapatra, Souryabrata; Mishra, Ashok", "title": "Impact of weather variability on crop yields and land use dynamics in Eastern India: Short- and long-term effects", "date": "2025", "keywords": "agriculture; change; climate; crop; crop yields; deviation; diversification; economics; effects; gram; impact; india; intensity; land; land use; model; odisha; production; rainfall; study; temperature; term; use; variables; weather; yields", "summary": "Editor in chief: Silvia Coderoni Associated editor: Laura Garcia Her- rero ORCID SM: 0000-0002-3627-8739 Impact of weather variability on crop yields and land use dynamics in Eastern India: Short- and long-term effects Pratap Kumar Jena1, Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh2, Souryabrata Mohapatra3,*, Ashok Mishra4 1 Department of Economics, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanjdeo University, Baripada, India 2 Department of Economics, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, India 3 School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jheepasani, India 4 Morrison School of Agribusiness, Arizona State University, Mesa, United States *Corresponding author. In this paper, we thus attempt to answer the research ques- tion of how weather variations influence crop yields and land use dynamics in eastern India.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17195", "words": "10015", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "MAESANO, GIULIA; Sadrmousavigargari, Seyyedehsara; Castellini, Alessandra", "title": "Consumer Intentions to Purchase Pasta with Blockchain-based Traceability ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "attitude; behaviour; blockchain; blockchain technology; consumer; et al; food; intention; model; pasta; products; purchase; quality; study; technology; traceability; trust", "summary": "The study by Lin et al. (2021) also utilised the TPB to investigate the factors influencing Chinese consumers' intentions towards blockchain food traceability technology to ensure the food safety and quality of Chinese organic food. Consumers' intention to adopt blockchain food traceability technology towards organic food products.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17220", "words": "10159", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "K\u00fchnemund, Alexander; Recke, Guido", "title": "Intention to use AI-Based Camera Systems in German Pig Farming: An Extended Technology Acceptance Model ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "camera; data; factors; farmers; farming; intention; itu; model; pig; systems; technology; use", "summary": "In terms of the adoption of AI technologies in a professional context, Dumbach et al. (2021) identified data protection as the most challenging barrier with respect to AI technology. As a result, AI technologies can not only increase productivity but also improve overall animal welfare through early disease detection and prevention.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17226", "words": "9662", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Macedo Jo\u00e3o, Alexandre; Freire, Dulce; Rocha, Humberto; Dias, Joana", "title": "Rebuilding strategies for food self-sufficiency: Portugal\u2019s past patterns and future ambitions", "date": "2025", "keywords": "area; consumption; data; economics; mars; portugal; production; productivity; scenario; self; sufficiency; values; variables; wheat; wheat production", "summary": "Keywords: wheat production, self-sufficiency, productivity, forecasting models, policy making. Furthermore, the country has witnessed periods of self-sufficiency and also of very low levels of self-supply in wheat production.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17229", "words": "13901", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Sabbagh, Maria; Gutierrez, Luciano", "title": "Farmers\u2019 Intention Towards Investing in Agriculture 4.0 in Marginal and Non-marginal Conditions", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adoption; agriculture; areas; conditions; durum; et al; farmers; farming; influence; intention; journal; model; new; performance; research; risk; technologies; technology; use; utaut2; wheat", "summary": "5 To investigate these dynamics,this research utilized the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) model (Venkatesh et al., 2012), which provides a comprehensive framework for understanding technology adoption (Alghatrifi & Khalid, 2019; Macedo, 2017; Tamilmani et al., 2021). As well, UTAUT2 is important in understanding technology adoption since it explains both short-term and long- term technology use (Diekmann & Theuvsen, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17237", "words": "7174", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Maccaferri, Simone; Ruiz-Sierra, Ana; Paiano, Paola; Johnson, Chloe; Zicmane, Elina; Puzzolo, Virginia; Giacomuzzi-Moore, Nicolo", "title": "Circular Biobased Europe Joint Undertaking: driving innovations towards sustainable agriculture and growth in rural areas.\u202f ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bio; bioeconomy; cbe; cbe ju; chains; europe; food; innovation; producers; projects; sector; value", "summary": "Number of CBE JU projects by main area of application and type of action. 138 7 139 The main types of feedstocks used in CBE JU projects are agriculture-based feedstock, 140 including residues and by-products from the agri-food industry, followed by forest-based 141 feedstock, including lignocellulosic side streams and wood residues, and finally aquatic 142 feedstock, including aquatic organisms and biomass from fisheries and the aquaculture sector 143 and their residues.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17303", "words": "9432", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Anton, Jesus; Vanni, Francesco; Asai, Masayasu", "title": "Towards a new policy narrative for agriculture: capturing social sustainability issues", "date": "2025", "keywords": "agriculture; countries; data; et al; farmers; health; income; issues; oecd; policies; policy; sustainability", "summary": "A more accurate measurement of total farm 466 household income would also allow to assess the potential impact of agriculture policies as 467 compared to non-sectoral policies such as social policies on income and ensuring livelihoods, 468 as well as to contributing to other social sustainability objectives. 1 Towards a new policy narrative for agriculture: capturing social sustainability issues 1 Jes\u00fas Ant\u00f3n1*, Masayasu Asai2 and Francesco Vanni1 2 1: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 3 2: Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto 4 University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan 5 *corresponding author 6 This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been 7 through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to 8 differences between this version and the Version of Record.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17307", "words": "10425", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Caravaggio, Nicola; Vaquero-Pineiro, Cristina", "title": "Are Geographical Indications contributing to environmental conservation? The case of coffee industry and deforestation in Colombia", "date": "2025", "keywords": "coffee; colombia; control; country; data; deforestation; economic; et al; figure; food; forest; land; policy; scheme; synthetic; table", "summary": "Figure 2 Deforestation trend, Colombia vs synthetic Colombia. The red line shows the outcome for synthetic Colombia estimated as a counterfactual of what would have been observed for the affected unit in the absence of the intervention.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17310", "words": "9307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Magnapera, Claudia; Ka\u017eemekaityt\u0117, Aust\u0117ja; Raffaelli , Roberta; Cerroni, Simone", "title": "Farmers, experts and students\u2019 subjective probability distributions on methane emission reductions in livestock farming: An experimental comparison across elicitation methods", "date": "2025", "keywords": "beliefs; cerroni; distributions; elicitation; et al; experts; farmers; journal; methane; methods; participants; probability; qsr; risk; students", "summary": "1 Farmers, experts and students\u2019 subjective probability distributions on methane emission 1 reductions in livestock farming: An experimental comparison across elicitation methods 2 Claudia Magnaperaa,c,1, Austeja Kazemekaitytea, Roberta Raffaellia, Simone Cerronia,b 3 aDepartment of Economics and Management, University of Trento, Trento, Italy 4 bCentre Agriculture Food Environment (C3A), University of Trento, Trento, Italy 5 cInstitute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR), Zurich University of Applied Sciences 6 (ZHAW), W\u00e4denswil, Switzerland 7 1 Corresponding author, e-mail address: claudia.magnapera@unitn.it 8 This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been 9 through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to 10 differences between this version and the Version of Record. Farmers, experts and 13 students\u2019 subjective probability distributions on methane emission reductions in livestock 14 farming: An experimental comparison across elicitation methods.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17313", "words": "770", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Mac Clay, Pablo; Arraigada, Juli\u00e1n", "title": "The potential of digital agriculture start-ups to reshape market dynamics in the ag-input industry: A case study from Argentina. ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "agriculture; data; digital; farm; solutions", "summary": "Classification of solutions provided by Argentine Agrifoodtech start-ups Category Number of companies % of total Precision agriculture, smart farming, and farm robotics 91 41% Biological inputs and solutions 30 13% Plant, Animal and food Biotechnology solutions 15 6% Alternative ways of farming 17 7% Lab-based proteins and food ingredients 6 3% E-commerce and delivery solutions (Digital agribusiness marketplaces) 17 7% E-commerce and delivery solutions (Other) 4 2% Digital food service 2 1% Functional and healthy foods 13 5% Logistics, food safety, and traceability solutions 14 6% Financial solutions for food and agriculture 15 6% Waste reduction and cascading uses 9 4% Total 239 100% 4 Appendix 3. Syngenta Seeds & Crop Protection Cropwise is an integrated digital farming platform that offers a set of digital solutions to optimize planting, nutrition, and monitoring tasks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17326", "words": "10932", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Rinaldi, Giacomo Maria; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Towards the knowledge and innovation system for the bioeconomy?", "date": "2025", "keywords": "approach; bioeconomy; business; concept; development; economics; et al; factors; innovation; innovation system; kisb; knowledge; papers; policy; research; systems", "summary": "Rethinking bioeconomy innovation in sustainability transitions. One of these is innovation (Viaggi et al., 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17342", "words": "6099", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Nota, Paolo; Curzi, Daniele; Vigani, Mauro", "title": "The cost of joining forces: collective organisations and the economic performance of dairy farms in England", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cem; costs; farmers; milk; observations; organisation; price; production; selling; table; variables", "summary": "To understand why SCAs with collective organisations imply higher production costs and lower markup, we further investigate five categories of agreements\u2019 characteristics associated with collective organisations using penalised (logit) regression, namely: i) special contract clauses (contract duration, services, producer protections); ii) pricing methods; iii) timing of milk delivery and pricing; iv) costs associated to the agreement; and v) required quality and production standards. 1 The cost of joining forces: collective organisations and the economic performance of dairy farms in South West England Authors: Paolo Nota1, Daniele Curzi1*, Mauro Vigani2,3 Affiliations: 1 Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Italy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17356", "words": "9182", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Moussaoui, Ahmed; Ghelfi, Rino; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Agritech Policy Landscape: Insights from Relevant Stakeholders on Policy Issues and Strategic Plans in Italy", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adoption; agriculture; agriculture technologies; barriers; data; farmers; insights; policy; qualitative; research; respondents; stakeholders; study; systems; technologies; technology", "summary": "Both qualitative and quantitative components of the study shared a common core of 133 thematic focus, centering on: 134 \u2022 The barriers and drivers of smart agriculture technology adoption. 614 A broader finding from this study is that smart agriculture policies must be adaptive, 615 responsive, and inclusive.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17357", "words": "11634", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Timpanaro, Giuseppe; Cascone, Giulio; Foti, Vera Teresa", "title": "Enabling Technologies in Citrus Farming: A Living Lab Approach to Agroecology and Sustainable Water Resource Management", "date": "2025", "keywords": "/ha; adoption; agriculture; agroecology; citrus; costs; digital; et al; farm; farmers; innovation; irrigation; living; management; production; systems; technologies; technology; water", "summary": "Agronomic Assessment 807 of Agroecological technologies codesigned and experimented with the dairy farmers members 808 of the Agroecological Living Landscape of Burkina Faso. The two citrus farms analyzed were identified as pilot sites within the Living Lab of the Calatino 318 Inner Area, a collaborative ecosystem aimed at testing and validating innovative solutions for 319 regenerative citrus farming and sustainable water resource management.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17364", "words": "12063", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Cozzi, Elena; Menozzi, Davide; Maesano, Giulia; Canavari, Maurizio; Mora, Cristina", "title": "Digital Technology Adoption Among Italian Farmers: An Extended Technology Acceptance Model Approach in the Horticultural Sector", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adoption; agriculture; behaviour; ease; et al; farmers; intention; level; model; new; study; sustainability; technologies; technology; use; usefulness; water", "summary": "Secondly, while factors like such as farm size and socio-demographic 15 characteristics have been investigated, the influence of sustainability motivations and social 16 norms on technology adoption has not yet been sufficiently researched (Gemtou et al., 2024). In particular, the decision-making process 17 is influenced by various factors that affect the rate of technology adoption by farmers (Gemtou 18 1 Specifically, automatic irrigation systems are connected to sensors that monitor soil moisture and activate valves wirelessly; instead, predictive modelling integrates the first two solutions (soil moisture sensors and automatic irrigation systems) into predictive models that merge real-time data with historical data, analyse it, and make autonomous irrigation decisions thanks to water delivery schedules that optimize dosing based on specific crop requirements and environmental conditions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17382", "words": "12630", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Pacciani, Cosimo; Catellani, Eleonora; Bacchetti, Andrea; Corbo, Chiara; Ciccullo, Federica; Ardolino, Marco", "title": "Agriculture 4.0: Technological Adoption, Drivers, Benefits and Challenges in Italy. A Descriptive Survey", "date": "2025", "keywords": "a4.0; a4.0 solutions; adoption; agriculture; barriers; benefits; challenges; data; efficiency; et al; farmers; farming; farms; management; monitoring; respondents; size; solutions; sustainability; systems; technologies", "summary": "The results indicate varying levels of adoption of A4.0 solutions, with monitoring systems and connected vehicles being the most widely implemented. 37 Despite the promising role that A4.0 solutions could play in mitigating sustainability challenges while 38 improving productivity, their uptake remains limited and fragmented (Osrof et al., 2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17755", "words": "12846", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Gava, Oriana; Sturiale, Sara; Gallardo, Marisa; Buend\u00eda Guerrero, Dolores; Buyuktas, Dursun; Ece Aslan, Gulcin; Laarif, Asma; Bouslama, Thameur; Navarro, Alejandra; Incrocci, Luca; Bartolini, Fabio", "title": "Addressing needs for the diffusion of digital greenhouse farming. Insights from Living Labs in the Mediterranean basin.", "date": "2025", "keywords": "actors; adoption; agriculture; case; conditions; et al; farmers; farming; innovation; knowledge; market; needs; policy; practices; production; research; studies; support; sustainability; technologies; tools", "summary": "However, while technology-driven solutions can be 61 appealing, resources may be wasted if technologies are not developed responsibly by aligning with 62 the actual needs of actors1 directly involved in technology adoption and diffusion (Rose et al., 2021). It also requires adopting a 71 responsible research and innovation (RRI) approach through the engagement of a variety of actors 72 (e.g., farmers, researchers, policymakers) directly involved in the technology adoption and its 73 diffusion, prioritising their actual needs and considering the diversity of contextual features at the 74 territorial level (Eastwood et al., 2019; Rose et al., 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17797", "words": "9322", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Maranzano, Paolo; Boccaletti, Simone; Viegas, Miguel", "title": "Inequality and Concentration in Farmland Production and Size: Regional Analysis for the European Union from 2010 to 2020", "date": "2025", "keywords": "analysis; concentration; countries; differences; european; farmland; farms; gini; gini index; index; land; output; production; regional; regions; size; time", "summary": "Accordingly, we observed similarities in agricultural land concentration in some cross-border areas: the Portugal\u2013Spain border, a large part of central Europe comprised of France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and western Germany, a smaller part of central Europe including eastern Germany, western Poland, and the Czech Republic, and, lastly, Hungary and Slovakia. Extending the notion of spatial autocorrelation within a cluster- based framework, the authors ascertained that European regions can be categorized into three macro- regions (e.g., Germany, Benelux, and the northeastern French regions form a homogeneous cluster) with group-specific determinants of agricultural production concentration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-17846", "words": "12611", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Strusi, Valeria Paola; Balestri, Sara", "title": "Land, Women and Development: A Systematic Review of Causal Evidence", "date": "2025", "keywords": "access; agricultural; development; effects; empowerment; et al; evidence; findings; gender; household; investment; journal; land; land rights; outcomes; ownership; productivity; property; research; review; rights; studies; tenure; wlrs; women", "summary": "Keywords: land, land rights, women, development, systematic review, PRISMA JEL: O13, P48, Q15 1. Widows\u2019 land rights and agricultural investment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-18004", "words": "317", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "24", "author": "AAVV", "title": "Acknowledgements", "date": "2025", "keywords": "alessandro; bio; daniele; economics", "summary": "Firenze University Press | www.fupress.com/bae Bio-based and Applied Economics BAE Bio-based and Applied Economics 14(1): 93, 2025 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 Acknowledgements The Editorial Board of Bio-based and Applied Economics thanks all reviewers for their support for Volume 13, Issues 1-4, published in 2024. Reviewers Assaker Georges Bareille Fran\u00e7ois Bazzani Claudia Beyhan Zeynep Biondi Beatrice Boncinelli Fabio Borrego-Mar\u00edn Mar\u00eda del Mar Bournaris Thomas Bozzola Martina Bradfield Tracy Cacchiarelli Luca Cavallo Carla Corrado Alessandra Cortignani Raffaele Curzi Daniele D\u2019Alberto Riccardo Donati Michele Fasolino Nunzia Franco Silvio Fusacchia Ilaria Galioto Francesco Gava Oriana Huber Robert Irek Judith Jambor Attila Jurkenaite Nele Macr\u00ec Maria Carmela Magazzino Cosimo Marino Davide Matthews Alan Mazzoli Enrico Obi Chinedu Olper Alessandro Ordonez Melania Salazar Pagano Luciano Pellegrini Emilia Prosperi Paolo Rac Ilona Raggi Meri Righi Selene Rocchi Benedetto Sacchi Giovanna Schulze Christoph Selvaggi Roberta Senni Saverio Sogari Giovanni Stranieri Stefanella Tassinari Gianmaria Tremma Ourania Tyllianakis Emmanouil Varacca Alessandro Vecchio Riccardo Veneziani Mario Vergamini Daniele Viaggi Davide Zeilinger Julian Zezza Annalisa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode https://www.fupress.com/bae Building sustainable futures: the bio-based fertilizer case-study Carla Abitabile, Andrea Arzeni*, Federica Cisilino, Matteo Orlando Is there an Animal Food Kuznets Curve, and does it matter?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-18042", "words": "7583", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Arfini, Filippo; Bartolini, Fabio; Carbone, Anna; Castellotti, Tatiana; Coderoni, Silvia; Cortignani, Raffaele; D'Annolfo, Raffaele; Dara Guccione, Giovanni; Donati, Michele; Galli, Francesca; Henke, Roberto; Mazzocchi, Giampiero; Monteleone, Alessandro; Raggi, Meri; Pesce, Alessandra; Pupo D'Andrea, Maria Rosaria; Rocchi, Benedetto; Romano, Donato; Sardone, Roberta; Sotte, Franco; Targetti, Stefano; Zumpano, Catia", "title": "Where is the Italian agriculture heading? A discussion in light of the prospects for the future CAP", "date": "2025", "keywords": "agriculture; bio; cap; document; economics; european; food; future; italy; policies; policy; production; sector; sustainability; system; vision", "summary": "By capturing the perspectives of researchers and academics, the paper contributes to the national debate on reshaping EU agricultural policy beyond 2027. Given the current European context, which includes the prospect of a potential reduction in CAP funds, the vision of the political re-evaluation of the entire governance structure of Italian agricultural policy also becomes relevant.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-18285", "words": "8978", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Giannecchini, Alberto; Baldi, Lisa; Donati, Michele; Arfini, Filippo", "title": "How Milk Quotas and the CAP Affect GI Systems: The Case of Parmigiano Reggiano PDO", "date": "2025", "keywords": "dairy; farmers; farms; figure; land; level; market; milk; milk production; milk quotas; model; parmigiano; policy; prg; price; production; quotas; reggiano; regulation", "summary": "However, this provision didn\u2019t completely eliminate production quotas, but a new scheme tailored to Geographical Indication (GI) production groups was created instead. It is assumed that farmers maximize their gross margin (GM) subject to constraints related to environmental practices and production quotas, as described in the next paragraph.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-18640", "words": "1602", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Bartolini, Fabio; Coderoni, Silvia", "title": "Reflections and new directions: An editorial retrospective and the launch of our new Policy Paper section", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bae; bio; economics; policy; research; section", "summary": "Submissions may take different forms, including: \u2013 Policy analyses, which assess the effectiveness of existing policies and highlight opportunities for reform. In the past two years, BAE has attracted submissions from across Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, reflecting the global relevance of bio-based transitions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-19112", "words": "2551", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Viaggi, Davide; Maesano, Giulia; Menozzi, Davide", "title": "Economic and Policy Analysis of Technologies Uptake for the Smart Management of Agricultural Systems", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adoption; agriculture; et al; policy; technologies; technology", "summary": "Using a Living Lab approach, the authors demonstrate that digital technologies can increase yield per hectare, improve profitability, and enhance water efficiency on citrus farms. Finally, Moussaoui et al. (2025) employ a mixed-methods design, combining surveys and in-depth interviews to gather stakeholder perspectives on smart agriculture technologies and their policy integration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3214", "words": "491", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Cannata, Giovanni", "title": "Presidential Address", "date": "2012", "keywords": "economics", "summary": "BAE provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of applied research in the field of bio-based sectors and related policies, informing evidence-based decision-making and policy-making. The discussion on the bioec- onomy, now developing exponentially worldwide, allows to make more explicit new chal- lenges and to foster the debate on the sustainable use of biological resources, as well as to explore new dimensions of development and rural economies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3215", "words": "4434", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Viaggi, Davide; Mantino, Francesco; Mazzocchi, Mario; Moro, Daniele; Stefani, Gianluca", "title": "From Agricultural to Bio-based Economics? Context, State of the Art and Challenges", "date": "2012", "keywords": "agriculture; areas; bioeconomy; development; economics; field; food; innovation; policy; production; research", "summary": "Altogether, we can argue that technological factors are still at the core of the recent trends towards the expansion of agricultural economics research, namely the path towards bio-based economics, with a common distinguishing focus on technologies based on bio- logical processes. The main questions behind this initiative are: why a Journal on bio-based economics?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3216", "words": "9059", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Sckokai, Paolo", "title": "Agricultural and Applied Economics: What is This?", "date": "2012", "keywords": "articles; economics; food; jel; journals; research", "summary": "Total number of agricultural economics articles considered in the analysis \u00a0 AE AJAE AJARE CJAE ERAE FP JAE Total 2000 53 118 22 49 25 43 27 337 2001 63 127 25 42 22 34 28 341 2002 29 124 26 35 25 33 33 305 2003 43 131 23 24 22 33 24 300 2004 46 127 24 22 24 37 29 309 2005 68 111 22 28 25 35 24 313 2006 71 105 31 38 23 40 33 341 2007 64 108 28 35 21 38 35 329 2008 76 107 28 22 25 61 30 349 2009 64 135 33 32 24 62 36 386 2010 72 96 35 30 23 66 34 356 2011* 38 14 25 22 20 75 37 231 Total 687 1303 322 379 279 557 370 3897 Source: Econlit Note: the acronyms in each column represent the following journals: Agricultural Economics (AE); American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE); Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE); Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (CJAE); European Review of Agricul- tural Economics (ERAE); Food Policy (FP); Journal of Agricultural Economics (JAE). Number of agricultural economics articles with at least one author working in an Italian insti- tution \u00a0 AE AJAE AJARE CJAE ERAE FP JAE Total 2000 1 1 1 5 1 9 2001 1 1 1 3 2002 1 1 2 2003 1 2 3 2004 1 1 1 3 2005 1 1 1 1 1 5 2006 3 1 4 2007 1 2 1 2 1 1 8 2008 2 2 4 3 11 2009 3 2 3 2 1 11 2010 1 2 4 7 2011* 3 1 1 3 8 Total 10 14 0 4 18 12 16 74 Source: Econlit Note: the acronyms in each column represent the following journals: Agricultural Economics (AE); American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE); Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE); Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (CJAE); European Review of Agricul- tural Economics (ERAE); Food Policy (FP); Journal of Agricultural Economics (JAE).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3217", "words": "7526", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Van Herck, Kristine; Swinnen, Johan; Vandemoortele, Thijs", "title": "The Experience Economy as the Future for European Agriculture and Food?", "date": "2012", "keywords": "agriculture; consumers; economy; employment; european; example; experience; experience economy; farmers; food; growth; market; products; sales; sector; total", "summary": "Yet, the evolution of FT is a good indi- cator for consumers\u2019 interest in experience products. In 12 The economic crisis may have temporarily slowed or even reversed this trend, but this reinforces the argument that economic growth is related to the growth of experience products and services.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3218", "words": "8344", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Schmidt, Otto; Padel, Susanne; Levidow, Les", "title": "The Bio-Economy Concept and Knowledge Base in a Public Goods and Farmer Perspective", "date": "2012", "keywords": "agriculture; bio; commission; concept; development; economy; european; european commission; farmers; food; goods; innovation; knowledge; production; public; research", "summary": "A wider working definition of bio-based economy was used in the report of one of the external expert group of DG Research of EU Commission on social, economic and environmental implications of a bio-based economy (Menrad et al., 2011: 6). The plan focuses on three key aspects: developing new technologies and processes for the bio- * Corresponding author: otto.schmid@fibl.org. 48 O. Schmid, S. Padel and L. Levidow economy; developing markets and competitiveness in bio-economy sectors; and pushing policymakers and stakeholders to work more closely together (European Commission, 2012a; 2012b; 2012c; 2012d).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3219", "words": "8505", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Saravia-Matus, Silvia; Gomez y Paloma, Sergio; Mary, Sebastien", "title": "Economics of Food Security: Selected Issues", "date": "2012", "keywords": "access; agriculture; countries; development; fao; food; food security; income; increase; land; level; market; price; production; research; security; technology; world", "summary": "67Economics of Food Security: Selected Issues However, the current policy debate on food security is strongly dominated by the issue of food availability and affordability, particularly in high-income societies (although some low-income countries have also taken protective measures such as banning of grain exports to maintain national stocks at times of food price pikes). The emphasis in the academic literature is thus placed on food access (or the capacity of households to fulfil their mini- mum dietary needs) as the main limiting factor of food security.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3220", "words": "14921", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Listorti, Giulia; Esposti, Roberto", "title": "Horizontal Price Transmission in Agricultural Markets: Fundamental Concepts and Open Empirical Issues", "date": "2012", "keywords": "agricultural; analysis; approach; change; cointegration; economics; et al; food; framework; journal; listorti; markets; models; paper; policy; price; price transmission; regime; run; series; specification; time; vecm; volatility", "summary": "Moreover, in the present review of the literature, we only consider studies where volatility (GARCH effects) is admitted within price transmission models (VECM) while we disregard those empirical works concentrating only on the analysis of the volatility in agricultural price series (Piot-Lepetit and M\u2019Barek, 2011; Busse et al., 2011). As far as the second aspect is concerned, it is worth noticing that in multivariate stochastic pro- cesses, as in price transmission models, these GARCH effects can also arise across indi- vidual series, consequently allowing the time-varying variance of one series to affect that of another series.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3221", "words": "9805", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Heckelei, Thomas; Britz, Wolfgang; Zhang, Yinan", "title": "Positive Mathematical Programming Approaches \u2013 Recent Developments in Literature and Applied Modelling", "date": "2012", "keywords": "britz; calibration; estimation; farm; function; heckelei; linear; m od; m s; models; non; pmp; programming; use", "summary": "Specifically, advances in the empirical foundation of parameter specifications as well as the economic rationalisation of PMP models \u2013 both criticized in earlier reviews \u2013 are investigated. Heckelei and Britz (2005) specifically focus on parameter specification and simulation behavior of PMP models and criticize the weak empirical justification and consequently arbitrary model response implied by many of the early applications.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3222", "words": "12506", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Britz, Wolfgang; van Ittersum, Martin; Oude Lansink, Alfons; Heckelei, Thomas", "title": "Tools for Integrated Assessment in Agriculture. State of the Art and Challenges", "date": "2012", "keywords": "agriculture; analysis; approaches; assessment; britz; capri; crop; data; farm; impact; ittersum; level; modelling; models; policy; seamless; systems; uncertainty; use; van", "summary": "3.2.3 Hybrid models integrating farm level and regional level models Hybrid models integrate farm level models into regional level models. Farm level models allow for modelling the behaviour of individual farms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3223", "words": "10925", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Srinivasan, Chittur", "title": "Modelling Economic Returns to Plant Variety Protection in the UK", "date": "2012", "keywords": "cohort; crops; distribution; ornamental; plant; protection; pvp certificates; renewal; returns; value; varieties; variety; variety protection", "summary": "A duration model of plant variety protection certificates is used to infer the private appropriability of returns from agricultural crop variety innovations in the UK over the period 1965-2000. The val- ue distribution of plant variety protection certificates is highly skewed with a large proportion of innovations providing virtually no returns to innovators.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3224", "words": "9881", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Irz, Xavier; Stevenson, James", "title": "Efficiency and Farm Size in Philippine Aquaculture. Analysis in a Ray Production Frontier Framework", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aquaculture; economics; efficiency; farm; farm size; function; inputs; land; model; output; production; production function; productivity; ray; ray production; relationship; sample; size; vector", "summary": "There is therefore a strong case to investigate the IR within the confines of production eco- nomics, which can accommodate the multi-dimensional aspect of farm production. Aquaculture, inverse relationship, ray production function, efficiency, land reform, Philippines JEL-codes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3225", "words": "5975", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Giannoccaro, Giacomo; Berbel, Julio", "title": "The Determinants of Farmer\u2019s Intended Behaviour Towards the Adoption of Energy Crops in Southern Spain: an Application of the Classification Tree-Method", "date": "2012", "keywords": "adoption; area; biomass; classification; crops; energy; energy crops; farm; farmers; land; tree", "summary": "In this paper, farmers\u2019 intentions towards the adoption of energy crops are analyzed. The main outcome of this analysis is that off-farm labour factor affects the adoption of energy crops on farm, together with farm specializations, size of owned land and farmer\u2019s education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3226", "words": "8507", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Verbeke, Wim; Pieniak, Zuzanna; Guerrero, Luis; Hersleth, Margrethe", "title": "Consumers\u2019 Awareness and Attitudinal Determinants of European Union Quality Label Use on Traditional Foods", "date": "2012", "keywords": "food; label; pdo; pgi; quality; tsg", "summary": "The assumption is that quality labels fail to have an impact on behaviour and food choice unless they are used by consumers (Verbeke, 2005; Grunert and Wills, 2007), which makes it relevant to gain more insight in determinants of quality label use. Dif- ferences in the role of determinants are small between the three labelling schemes and between countries with versus without a strong tradition of quality labels in their agri- cultural and food quality policies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3227", "words": "1447", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Romano, Donato", "title": "The Bio-based Economy: a New Development Model", "date": "2013", "keywords": "bio; bioeconomy; challenges; commission; economics", "summary": "This is already happening at different scales as witnessed, for example, by the launching of the above-mentioned EU Horizon 2020 research programme, the blossom- ing of international research cooperation frameworks (such as the EU-LAC Bioeconomy Working Group), the birth of new Institutes/Departments focusing on the bioeconomy (see, for example, the Bioeconomy Institute at Iowa State University) or networks of insti- tutions/researchers (such as the Bioeconomy Network at Michigan State University, the Bioeconomy Science Center at the University of Aachen, the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research) as well as new postgraduate programs (such as the Master of Sciences in Management of Bioeconomy, Innovation and Governance at the University of Edinburgh). ISSN 2280-6180 (print) \u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae Bio-based and Applied Economics 1(3): 231-233, 2012 The Bio-based Economy: a New Development Model Donato Romano President Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata (AIEAA) There is no agreed-upon definition of the concept of the \u2018bio-based economy\u2019 (or bio- economy).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3228", "words": "16918", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Esposti, Roberto", "title": "Knowledge, Technology and Innovations for a Bio-based Economy: Lessons from the Past, Challenges for the Future", "date": "2012", "keywords": "agriculture; akis; alston; bio; commission; countries; esposti; european; food; global; growth; innovation; international; knowledge; new; pardey; policy; production; productivity; r&d; research; system; technology; tfp", "summary": "But what really underlies the \u201cmiracle\u201d of agricultural productivity growth, the actual engine of agricultural innovation, is what has been previously termed as the \u201ccloud of knowledge\u201d. However, in the case of agricultural innovations, this research and innovative effort combined with other major factors that enabled or favoured their adoption and diffusion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3229", "words": "14012", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Moschini, GianCarlo; Cui, Jingbo; Lapan, Harvey", "title": "Economics of Biofuels: An Overview of Policies, Impacts and Prospects", "date": "2012", "keywords": "agricultural; biofuel; carbon; corn; economics; effects; emissions; energy; ethanol; food; gasoline; impacts; land; mandate; oil; policies; policy; price; production; states; tax; united; use", "summary": "Biodiesel, biofuel policies, ethanol, greenhouse gas emissions, mandates JEL-codes. The rapid developments that have affected biofuel policies and biofuel indus- tries have generated considerable debate, and a number of unresolved issues remain.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3230", "words": "7966", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Sckokai, Paolo; Varacca, Alessandro", "title": "Product Differentiation and Brand Competition in the Italian Breakfast Cereal Market: a Distance Metric Approach", "date": "2012", "keywords": "brand; cereals; cross; demand; expenditure; fortified; jrt; market; model; price; products", "summary": "The product j\u2019s sales share (the share of expenditure allocated to product j) in market r, at time t is Wjrt, defined as p q X ( * ) /jrt jrt rt . Let jk c\u03b4 and jk D\u03b4 be measures of closeness between products j and k, function of continuous and discrete attributes, respectively.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3231", "words": "8754", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Mora, Cristina; Menozzi, Davide; Kleter, Gijs; Aramyan, Lusine H.; Valeeva, Natasha I.; Zimmermann, Karin l.; Reddy, Giddalury Pakki", "title": "Factors Affecting the Adoption of Genetically Modified Animals in the Food and Pharmaceutical Chains", "date": "2012", "keywords": "acceptance; adoption; animals; applications; benefits; consumer; et al; fish; food; gm animals; health; human; pharmaceutical; production; products; research; transgenic; welfare", "summary": "Despite considerable European innovations occurring in the area of GM animal tech- nology, many of the current activities in the field of GM food animals take place outside the EU, in particular regions like the Far East, North and South America, and Australia- New Zealand. So in the pharmaceutical sector the level of acceptance for GM animal applications is higher, ranging from 83% in developing coun- tries to 70% in Japan (Devlin et al., 2009), because of the expected advantages and the different array of political actors (V\u00e0zquez-Salat and Houdebine, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3232", "words": "14268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Matthews, Alan", "title": "Greening agricultural payments in the EU\u2019s Common Agricultural Policy", "date": "2013", "keywords": "agricultural; cap; commission; compliance; council; environment; european; farmers; greening; land; measures; member; payments; pillar; policy; production; reform; standards; states; support; use", "summary": "3Greening agricultural payments in the EU\u2019s Common Agricultural Policy tal standards and practices as a condition for eligibility to receive direct payments in Pillar 1 of the CAP. Assessment of CAP environmental measures This section briefly evaluates the experiences to date with the different CAP instru- ments to target environmental objectives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3233", "words": "9487", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Dwyer, Janet", "title": "Transformation for sustainable agriculture: what role for the second Pillar of CAP?", "date": "2013", "keywords": "agriculture; change; development; dwyer; et al; european; farmers; innovation; knowledge; local; measures; new; pillar; policy; report; research; rural", "summary": "Models for policy innovation adapted from experience in commercial organisa- tions are suggested as worthy of further research. Innovation is seen as playing a critical role in achieving the EU2020 strategy goals, and greater emphasis on innovation has been placed within the legislative proposals for rural development policy under the CAP.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3234", "words": "11265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Kahil, Mohamed Taher; Albiac, Jos\u00e9", "title": "Greenhouse gases mitigation policies in the agriculture of Aragon, Spain", "date": "2013", "keywords": "abatement; agriculture; area; change; climate; crop; economic; emissions; farmers; fertilization; ghg; ghg emissions; instruments; manure; measures; mitigation; nitrogen; policies; pollution; use; water", "summary": "The measures to mitigate agricultural GHG emissions are to improve information and knowledge on production processes, reduce nitrogen fertilization and better manure management, pro- mote organic farming, biodigestion of manure, improve the energy efficiency in irrigat- ed agriculture, increase the land area of energy producing crops, and renew agricultural machinery. Results 4.1 Assessment of agricultural GHG emissions The study area contributes significantly to the final agricultural production of Aragon, as well as to employment and rural development (MARM, 2009).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3235", "words": "7886", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Floridi, Matteo; Bartolini, Fabio; Peerlings, Jack; Polman, Nico; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Modelling the adoption of automatic milking systems in Noord-Holland", "date": "2013", "keywords": "adoption; ams; cluster; dairy; farm; investment; labour; milking; model; period; uncertainty; value", "summary": "Was et al. (2011), in applying a RO model to Pol- ish farmers, found that future conditions such as market prices and expectations about the CAP strongly affect the profitability of AMS adoption. As highlighted by the literature, AMS adoption is strongly affected by uncertainty in relevant decision var- iables.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3236", "words": "9578", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Garbade, Philipp; Omta, Simon; Fortuin, Francisca", "title": "Exploring the characteristics of innovation alliances of Dutch Biotechnology SMEs and their policy implications", "date": "2013", "keywords": "alliance; biotechnology; companies; distance; innovation; journal; knowledge; level; management; mapping; model; new; performance; process; research; resources; smes; transfer", "summary": "ISSN 2280-6180 (print) \u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae Bio-based and Applied Economics 2(1): 91-111, 2013 Exploring the characteristics of innovation alliances of Dutch Biotechnology SMEs and their policy implications PhiliPP J.P. Garbade1, S.W.F. (OnnO) Omta2,*, FranceS t.J.m. According to RBV, alliances can be considered as tools to create new unique sets 95Exploring the characteristics of innovation alliances of resources that enable the partnering firms to (partly) overcome the immobility problem of certain resources.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3237", "words": "6783", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Mack, Gabriele; M\u00f6hring, Anke; Ferjani, Ali; Zimmermann, Albert; Mann, Stefan", "title": "Transfer of single farm payment entitlements to farm successors: impact on structural change and rental prices in Switzerland", "date": "2013", "keywords": "agents; fadn; farm; land; lease; model; municipalities; municipality; plots; prices; reference; sfp", "summary": "7% 18% 23% 20% 21% 8% 15% 19% 18% 20% 72% 71% 73% 77% 77% 72% 71% 73% 77% 78% 21% 11% 4% 2% 2% 21% 13% 8% 5% 3% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% <10 ha 10-20 ha 20-30 ha 30-40 ha >40 ha <10 ha 10-20 ha 20-30 ha 30-40 ha >40 ha No of agents in % Agents taking over farm Other Agents Exiting agents Non-Transferable SFPTransferable SFP Sources: Own calculations. Happe and Balmann (2002) have shown for the Hohenlohe region in Baden-W\u00fcrt- temberg that more frequent farm exits and falling rental prices are especially to be expect- ed when farm payments are completely decoupled \u2013 i.e. when they impose no obligations on the recipients and allow for the possibility of continuing to receive the direct payments even in the case of farm exit.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3238", "words": "8784", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Speelman, Stijn; Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan", "title": "Heterogeneous preferences for water rights reforms among smallholder irrigators in South Africa", "date": "2013", "keywords": "africa; attributes; choice; et al; farmers; heterogeneity; irrigation; policy; respondents; rights; segment; smallholder; south; water; water rights", "summary": "Water rights in South Africa In South Africa the National Water Act (Republic of South Africa, 1998) abolished the previous system of water rights and entitlements, which were linked to the land rights. A theoretically interesting institutional intervention is the installation or improvement of water rights, but the benefits of such intervention and their distribution are insufficiently researched.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3239", "words": "8801", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Romano, Severino; Cozzi, Mario; Giglio, Paolo; Catullo, Giovanna", "title": "Post-2013 EU Common Agricultural Policy: predictive models of land use change", "date": "2013", "keywords": "agriculture; analysis; areas; cap; change; future; land; land use; layer; measures; policy; scenario; transition; use; variables", "summary": "Studies dealing with land use changes often make reference to research on global changes (Dai et al., 2005; Turner, 1990; Turner et al., 1994). Such models have been devel- oped to assess the interactions between driving factors and land use changes, with a view to predicting variations in space and time (Pin Lin et al., 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3240", "words": "8093", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Ansaloni, Francesco; Pyszny, Francesco; Marquina, Rodolfo; Liendo, Alvaro Claros; Goitia, Alvaro Claros; Huanca, Jos\u00e9 Luis Quispe; Pineda, Japhet Zapana", "title": "Income Analysis in South American Domestic Camelid Farms", "date": "2013", "keywords": "alpaca; animal; bol; bolivia; camelid; costs; data; farm; groups; heads; income; land; llama; meat; number; production; rural; small; usd", "summary": "Interest on overall farm capital is in proportion to return on stock capital (animals, equipment and machinery), advanced capital or loans necessary to cover at least a part of costs to purchase production equipment to begin farm production. The choice of this research method arises from the need to collect, elaborate and com- pare detailed data from various productive and cultural situations in a uniform manner; to the capacity of farm groups to reflect the various production systems in a specific terri- tory; to constraints due to limited resources for the survey.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3241", "words": "7812", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Mantino, Francesco", "title": "What is going to change in EU rural development policies after 2013? Main implications in different national contexts", "date": "2013", "keywords": "costs; development; development policies; european; funds; national; new; policies; policy; programmes; reform; regional", "summary": "Future pol- icy scenarios might bring new and heavy constraints to rural development policies and consequently might also reduce the opportunities of institutional innovations. In both cases there is a demand strongly influenced by the past and present ways in which rural development policy has been supplied until now, consequently causing a strong path-dependency mechanism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3242", "words": "1513", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Romano, Donato", "title": "Between crisis and development: which role for the bio-economy (and bio-economists)", "date": "2013", "keywords": "bio; crisis; development; economics; food; price", "summary": "The metaphor of the economic cycle, that is the natural fluctuation of the economy between periods of expansion and contraction, is as old as modern economic thought and dates back at least to early nineteen century when authors as Sismondi (1819) provided the first systematic exposition of economic crises. Indeed, the global economic crisis has changed the relationships between bio-based activities and economic development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3243", "words": "12964", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Sarris, Alexander", "title": "Food commodity price volatility and food insecurity", "date": "2013", "keywords": "commodity; commodity price; contract; countries; exchanges; financing; food; food commodity; food import; food price; import; international; market; physical; price; risk; trade; volatility; world", "summary": "In 2010 sharp price rises of food commodity prices were observed again, and by early 2011, the FAO food commodity price index was again at the level reached at the peak of the price spike of 2008. The reactions to the recent price boom, suggest that policy reactions to the food price surge have been prompt, with governments in many developing countries initiating a number of short-run measures, such as reductions in import tariffs and export restric- tions, in order to harness the increase in food prices and to protect consumers and vul- nerable population groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3244", "words": "8952", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Revoredo-Giha, Cesar; Zuppiroli, Marco", "title": "Commodity futures markets: are they an effective price risk management tool for the European wheat supply chain?", "date": "2013", "keywords": "-\u00ad\u20101; -\u00ad\u20102; ay -\u00ad\u20102; ch -\u00ad\u20102; futures; hedging; m ar; markets; price", "summary": "It is clear that if futures market prices follow factors that are not related to fundamen- tals, one should expect futures and spot prices to become divorced or less correlated. This paper focuses on the usefulness of futures prices for hedging against price risk, paying particular attention to the hedging performance in recent years.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3245", "words": "9209", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Salvioni, Cristina; Ascione, Elisa; Henke, Roberto", "title": "Structural and economic dynamics in diversified Italian farms", "date": "2013", "keywords": "activities; agriculture; differentiation; diversification; economic; farms; income; income diversification; labour; micro; non; pillar; product; production; strategies; total", "summary": "In many of these cases, farm income is likely used by these farm households to complement other sources of off-farm income. In other words, Pillar 1 support is an important share of farm income in this group of firms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3246", "words": "10411", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Camaioni, Beatrice; Esposti, Roberto; Lobianco, Antonello; Pagliacci, Francesco; Sotte, Franco", "title": "How rural is the EU RDP? An analysis through spatial fund allocation", "date": "2013", "keywords": "allocation; analysis; areas; development; distance; expenditure; level; population; pri; rdp; regions; rural; rurality; space; variables", "summary": "Rural regions still play a key role within the EU economy and society, even though the relative dominance and major vitality of its urban space, from mega cities to the network of its medium-sized cities, has been repeatedly pointed out (ESPON, 2005). A clusterisation of rural regions is also illustrated and discussed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3247", "words": "9723", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Donati, Michele; Bodini, Diego; Arfini, Filippo; Zezza, Annalisa", "title": "An integrated PMP model to assess the development of agro-energy crops and the effect on water requirements", "date": "2013", "keywords": "crop; farm; information; level; model; parma; pmp; production; r l; sorghum; use; water; yield; \uf8fa \uf8fa; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "Guide- lines for computing crop water requirements. Economic information related to farm crops identified as \u201clatent\u201d can however be introduced into a PMP model in two different ways: 1. as \u201clatent technology\u201d, when a given crop is adopted only by a group of farms in the sample: each farm belonging to the same sample is cross-linked with the others through a common set of cost function parameters and shares the same technology.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3248", "words": "9326", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Mittenzwei, Klaus; Britz, Wolfgang; Wieck, Christine", "title": "Does the \u201cgreen box\u201d of the European Union distort global markets?", "date": "2014", "keywords": "box; capri; effects; european; green; green box; land; market; model; payments; policy; production; sfp; supply; support; trade; wto", "summary": "Our research adds to the existing literature by accounting for potential production and trade effects that may result from EU green box support in a modeling framework that considers both in detail EU green box support including pillar II measures and the 2 Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact Model. We specifically focus on interactions between EU green box payments and the land market.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3249", "words": "10042", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Gatto, Paola; Vidale, Enrico; Secco, Laura; Pettenella, Davide", "title": "Exploring the willingness to pay for forest ecosystem services by residents of the Veneto Region", "date": "2013", "keywords": "areas; attribute; biodiversity; choice; economics; ecosystem; environmental; forest; landscape; level; model; non; services; table; values", "summary": "Despite the vast literature at the European level on forest values and consumer char- acteristics/perceptions and demand for forest ES, attempts to estimate different forest ES and their trade-offs are still rather scarce on a regional scale and especially in the Alpine context. The demand for forest ecosystem services is increasing in many European countries, yet there is still a scarcity of data on values at regional scale for Alpine areas.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3250", "words": "7594", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Fadiga, Mohamadou; Okike, Iheanacho; Bett, Bernard", "title": "An expost economic assessment of the intervention against highly pathogenic avian influenza in Nigeria", "date": "2014", "keywords": "benefit; cost; disease; hpai; influenza; intervention; mortality; nigeria; risk; spread; states; year; \uf8fa \uf8fa", "summary": "In this article, we first outlined a theoretical framework of disease control to under- stand the economic foundation of disease risk management and mitigation. Second, we presented an assessment of HPAI risk based on observed data to derive the scenarios that were considered, followed by a presentation of the data, and a stochastic analysis of HPAI risk.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3251", "words": "9667", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Sckokai, Paolo; Veneziani, Mario; Moro, Daniele; Castellari, Elena", "title": "Consumer willingness to pay for food safety: the case of mycotoxins in milk", "date": "2014", "keywords": "attributes; average; choice; consumers; economics; et al; food; food safety; journal; milk; model; mycotoxins; pay; price; products; safety; sample; wtp", "summary": "It is interesting to note that, contrary to their statistically significant con- tribution in explaining consumer choices through a RPL, gender and frequency of milk consumption do not give rise to group-average WTPs which are markedly different from the estimated sample average. Effects of product origin and selected demographics on consumer choice of red meats.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3252", "words": "4423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "M\u2019barek, Robert; Philippidis, George; Suta, Cornelia; Vinyes, Cristina; Caivano, Arnaldo; Ferrari, Emanuele; Ronzon, Tevecia; Lopez, Ana Sanjuan; Santini, Fabien", "title": "Observing and analysing the Bioeconomy in the EU \u2013 Adapting data and tools to new questions and challenges", "date": "2014", "keywords": "bioeconomy; biomass; commission; data; european; food; jrc; policy; sectors; use", "summary": "Section 2 describes the JRC state-of-the- art data storing, comparing and visualisation tool for agriculture, markets and models, 85Observing and analysing the Bioeconomy in the EU known as DataM. Section 3 deals with the description of bio-based sectors in each of the EU Member States (MS), based on the application of a detailed set of Social Accounting Matrices (SAM). In their paper, the authors employ multiplier analy- sis to examine the economic structure and relative influence of bio-based sectors relative to the rest of the economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3253", "words": "11423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Rosa, Franco; Vasciaveo, Michela; Weaver, Robert D.", "title": "Agricultural and oil commodities: price transmission and market integration between US and Italy", "date": "2014", "keywords": "agricultural; analysis; break; cointegration; commodities; commodity; food; hypothesis; italian; market; model; oil; period; price; results; root; series; table; test; time; transmission; values", "summary": "With respect to evidence of comovement across oil prices and commodity prices for entire period and sub-periods we find evidence of weak comovement of oil and ag-commodity prices that is weakest dur- ing the sub-period 1999-2004 and stronger in the later sub-periods; correlation is smaller with each of the Italian ag commodities compared to US. The first observation inherent in this period is that US and Italian ag-commodity prices move together and US commodity prices are not in general cointegrated with Ital- ian ag-commodity prices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3254", "words": "7290", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Severini, Simone; Tantari, Antonella", "title": "The contribution of different off-farm income sources and government payments to regional income inequality among farm households in Italy", "date": "2014", "keywords": "concentration; farm; fhi; gini; household; income; inequality; ofi; sources", "summary": "Introduction Raising farm income and changing its distribution are still among the main goals of government intervention in the farm sector, even if new perspectives regarding the \u201cfarm problem\u201d have been developed (Gardner, 1992). Furthermore, due to the ever increasing contribution of off-farm incomes (OFI), it seems more appropriate to move the attention from farm income (FI) to farm household income (FHI).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3255", "words": "9637", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Bartolini, Fabio; Andreoli, Maria; Brunori, Gianluca", "title": "Explaining determinants of the on-farm diversification: empirical evidence from Tuscany region", "date": "2014", "keywords": "activities; adoption; areas; count; determinants; diversification; diversification intensity; dummy; farm; farm diversification; farmers; household; income; intensity; model; production; results", "summary": "On-farm diversification towards multifunctional activities is perceived as central in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform and in the Horizon 2020 strategies, because it strengthens territorial and social cohesion of rural areas. Our results confirm the hypothesis proposed by Lange et al. (2013) and Zasada (2011) about the demand- driven effects of diversification, due to closeness to potentially high demand for services provided by farm diversification.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3256", "words": "7249", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Nkegbe, Paul; Shankar, Bhavani", "title": "Adoption intensity of soil and water conservation practices by smallholders: evidence from Northern Ghana", "date": "2014", "keywords": "adoption; conservation; conservation practices; count; data; ghana; household; intensity; model; number; practices; soil; variable; water", "summary": "Distribution of counts of conservation practices adopted Practice counts Frequency Percent 0 53 11.9 1 156 35.1 2 114 25.6 3 74 16.6 4 41 9.2 5 7 1.6 Total 445 100.0 From Table 1, 11.9 percent of the sampled households did not adopt any of the soil and water conservation practices and thus have a zero count while only 1.6 percent of the sample adopted five of the conservation practices, with no household adopting all six. conservation practices, adoption intensity, count data models, underdis- persion, Ghana JEL Codes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3257", "words": "3679", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Stefani, Gianluca; Scarpa, Riccardo; Lombardi, Ginevra V.", "title": "An addendum to: a meta-analysis of hypothethical bias in stated preference valuation", "date": "2014", "keywords": "distribution; irsf; preference; studies; values; wtp", "summary": "However, there are important differences in the distribu- tion of the IRSF depending on which type of WTP distribution is considered: marginal WTP distribution, WTP model error distribution and WTP estimate distribution consid- ered as non linear function of model parameters distribution. Studies based on experimental auctions and open-ended elicitation formats generally provide data on standard deviations of WTP values distributions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3258", "words": "803", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Scoppola, Margherita", "title": "Feeding the Planet and Greening Agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the bio-economy", "date": "2014", "keywords": "bio; economy; food", "summary": "In the past decades, agriculture has sat- isfied increases in food demand by means of productivity improvements. On the other hand, agriculture and forestry are key target sectors of climate change mitigation policies, in that their contribu- tion to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions could be substantial.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3259", "words": "9655", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Wesseler, Justus", "title": "Biotechnologies and agrifood strategies: opportunities, threats and economic implications", "date": "2014", "keywords": "approval; costs; crops; cultivation; economics; european; feed; food; gmos; maize; market; processors; products; retailers; strategies; strategy; wesseler", "summary": "METRO and the M\u00fcller group state that they trust the EU\u2019s food safety system and consider GM food products as being safe. Differentiating the consumer benefits from labelling of GM food products.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3260", "words": "12103", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Cooper, Joseph; Delbecq, Benoit", "title": "A multi-region approach to assessing fiscal and farm level consequences of government support for farm risk management", "date": "2014", "keywords": "act; approach; arc; average; county; coverage; crop; data; distributions; farm; insurance; level; payments; price; program; revenue; risk; support; yield", "summary": "Ratio of Federal RP crop insurance premiums to farm level ARC payments for a representa- tive farmer in each county. One approach to developing farm level yield is to infer it from Federal crop insurance premiums in conjunction with information from 10 Perfect dependence in this case means that Kendall\u2019s tau is equal to one (Demarta and McNeil, 2005). 216 J. Cooper, B. Delbecq NASS on county yields, using the assumption that the premiums are actuarially correct, that the NASS county yields have the same distribution as the county yields for the crop insurance participants, and that the difference between county and farm level yield is dis- tributed normally with mean zero (Coble and Dismukes, 2008).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3261", "words": "7992", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Marino, Davide; Gaglioppa, Pierluca; Schirpke, Uta; Guadagno, Rossella; Marucci, Angelo; Palmieri, Margherita; Pellegrino, Davide; Gusmerotti, Natalia", "title": "Assessment and governance of Ecosystem Services for improving management effectiveness of Natura 2000 sites", "date": "2014", "keywords": "badile; bagni; biodiversity; conservation; costs; ecosystem; european; management; masino; measures; natura; pizzo; services; sites; stella; study; value", "summary": "After a brief description of the above-mentioned cognitive steps of the project (analy- sis of site management instruments, questionnaires for management authorities and stake- holder meetings), we presented the results of 3 ES assessments in 2 out of 21 Natura 2000 study sites and compared these values with costs for conservation measures. For each site, habitat cover and land use were analysed, the site\u2019s management instruments were examined and socio-eco- nomic data were gathered through questionnaires for site management authorities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3262", "words": "8722", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Pisani, Elena; Burighel, Laura", "title": "Structures and dynamics of transnational cooperation networks: evidence based on Local Action Groups in the Veneto Region, Italy", "date": "2014", "keywords": "centrality; cooperation; density; development; lags; leader; network; nodes; projects; regional; relations; ties; tnc; total; transnational; veneto", "summary": "253Structures and dynamics of transnational cooperation networks 62; Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013). Transnational cooperation network of Veneto LAGs, LEADER II.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3263", "words": "6052", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Olasupo, Musa; Afolami, Caroline; Shittu, Adebayo; Agboola, A.A.A.", "title": "Performance and productivity changes in microfinance banks in South-West Nigeria", "date": "2014", "keywords": "average; change; efficiency; index; malmquist; mfbs; microfinance; performance; period; productivity; ratio; study; technology", "summary": "This paper thus investigated the performance and productivity changes of MFBs in South-West Nigeria, from 2006 to 2010, having had the Microfi- nance Policy launched in 2004. Introduction Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in sub-Saharan Africa comprises a variety of diverse and geographically dispersed institutions that offer financial services to low-income cli- ents: non-governmental organizations (NGOs), non-bank financial institutions, coopera- tives, rural banks, savings and postal financial institutions, microfinance banks (MFBs) and an increasing number of deposit money banks (DMBs).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3264", "words": "4771", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Mukhtarov, Farhad; Osseweijer, Patricia; Pierce, Robin", "title": "Global governance of biofuels: a case for public-private governance?", "date": "2014", "keywords": "actors; biofuels; governance; gupta; initiatives; legitimacy; mukhtarov; partnerships; pattberg; policy; state; water", "summary": "More lessons for private biofuel governance may be drawn from the area of marine policy. Private governance: lessons from forestry and marine policy The challenges faced by the voluntary schemes of certification of biofuels are typical problems of private global governance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3265", "words": "6903", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Alvarez, Antonio; Arias, Carlos", "title": "Effects of switching between production systems in dairy farming", "date": "2015", "keywords": "class; dairy; efficiency; farms; frontier; intensification; model; panel; panel model; period; probability; production; time", "summary": "In particular, for given inputs we would like to know whether intensive farms have the potential to produce more output than extensive farms, and if so, the degree to which intensive farms achieve such potential. Intensive farms are also larger in terms of milk production but are rather similar to extensive farms in terms of land.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3266", "words": "8783", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Giacomini, Corrado; Mancini, Maria Cecilia", "title": "Organisation as a key factor in Localised Agri-Food Systems (LAFS)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "agri; area; chain; del; development; distretto; firms; food; ibo; italy; lafs; organisation; parma; processing; production; products; relationships; supply; systems; tomato", "summary": "No. 1182/2007) brought about a fundamental change in public interventions aimed at industrial tomato production, as well as other processed fruits and vegetables. Marshall\u2019s work resulted in the creation of a new scenario for local development policies, which can be used to create favourable conditions for local firms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3267", "words": "8213", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Minarelli, Francesca; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Innovation in European food SMEs: determinants and links between types", "date": "2015", "keywords": "business; collaboration; determinants; firms; food; innovation; market; models; new; process; product; smes; types", "summary": "2. Methodology 2.1 Overview The paper attempts to test for the existence of relationships between innovation types and explores the determinants of single types of innovations in a sample of European food SMEs. Recent findings have also reported that firm size has an impact on innovation type in low- tech industries (Wagner and Hansen, 2005; Karantinin- is, 2010 ).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3268", "words": "9473", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Carbone, Anna; Henke, Roberto; Pozzolo, Alberto", "title": "Italian agri-food exports in the international arena", "date": "2014", "keywords": "agri; countries; demand; elasticities; elasticity; exports; food; food exports; index; mii; oil; olive; products; run; world", "summary": "3. Methodology Econometric analyses of export demand elasticities, specific both at country and at product level, have long tradition in economics, going back at least to Adler (1946) and Horner (1952). (2000) 60 A. Carbone, R. Henke, A.F. Pozzolo and those of US import and export at the sector level by Mann and Pluck (2007).2 A vast strand of literature has also focused on country level imports and exports of agricultural products, in particular commodities.3 Overall, the estimates of export demand elasticities obtained in literature are quite heterogeneous, depending on the goods, the countries and the time periods under scrutiny.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3269", "words": "10270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Sassi, Maria", "title": "The welfare cost of maize price volatility in Malawi", "date": "2015", "keywords": "analysis; cost; data; economy; food; garch; level; maize; maize price; malawi; market; model; paper; price; price volatility; series; term; time; variance; volatility; welfare", "summary": "\u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae Full Research Article DOI: 10.13128/BAE-14996 The welfare cost of maize price volatility in Malawi Maria SaSSi Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, V. S. Felice 5, 27100 Pavia Date of submission: September 22nd, 2014 Abstract. Maize price volatility, welfare cost, local-economy market, malawi JEL Code.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3270", "words": "109", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": ", ", "title": "In memory of Giovanni Anania", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anania", "summary": "In memory of Giovanni Anania It is with deep sadness that we announce the untimely and sudden death of our friend and colleague Prof. Giovanni Anania on Wednesday, 15 July. Prof. Anania was one of the founders of the AIEAA and indeed one of its most active promoters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3271", "words": "9946", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Salmoral, Gloria; Garrido, Alberto", "title": "The Common Agricultural Policy as a driver of water quality changes: the case of the Guadalquivir River Basin (southern Spain)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "area; cap; crop; erosion; land; model; nitrates; olive; panel; policy; production; quality; reform; soil; solids; study; subbasin; total; variables; water", "summary": "Several studies have analysed the effects of European environmental policies on water quality, but no detailed retrospective analysis of the impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms on observed water quality parameters has been carried out. Nevertheless, there is no specific EU legal basis 1 http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/envir/cross-compliance/index_en.htm. http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/envir/cross-compliance/index_en.htm 105The Common Agricultural Policy as a driver of water quality changes for soil protection in Europe, and the Soil Framework Directive proposal was withdrawn in 2014, although the European Commission is working on the Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection (European Commission, 2006), e.g. soil protection as an integral part of the GAEC (European Commission, 2012a).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3272", "words": "11236", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Menozzi, Davide; Fioravanzi, Martina; Donati, Michele", "title": "Farmer\u2019s motivation to adopt sustainable agricultural practices", "date": "2015", "keywords": "behaviour; cap; durum; efa; et al; farmers; food; intention; land; model; practices; questionnaire; schemes; sustainability; wheat", "summary": "Attempts to predict the impact of agri-environmental measures and related payments on farmers behaviour and decisions have been developed mainly applying mathematical programming techniques (Arfini and Donati, 2013; Louhichi et al., 2010; Janssen et al., 2010; Galko and Jayet, 2011; Buysse et al., 2007; R\u00f6hm and Dabbert, 2003) and other econometric models, such as stochastic production frontier (Reinhard et al., 1999), random parameter logit (Espinosa-Godet et 1 The following section describes the theoretical framework and its application to durum wheat farmers defining the hypotheses to be tested.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3273", "words": "6301", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Latruffe, Laure; Mann, Stefan", "title": "Labour constraints on choosing profitable products for part-time farmers in Swiss agriculture", "date": "2015", "keywords": "choice; data; enterprise; farm; farmers; labour; production; products; returns; share; time", "summary": "Farm work, off-farm work, and hired farm labour: estimating a discrete-choice model of French farm couples\u2019 labour decisions. In this paper we suggest that low labour availability on part-time farms may limit part-time farmers\u2019 choice of production enterprises, and as a consequence those farmers may be forced to engage in less profitable enterprises.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3274", "words": "5508", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Clemente, Felippe; L\u00edrio, Viviani; Gomes, Mar\u00edlia", "title": "Technical efficiency in Brazilian citrus production", "date": "2015", "keywords": "analysis; citrus; efficiency; function; orange; paulo; producer; production; properties; state; s\u00e3o", "summary": "Given that, it is necessary to estimate a frontier production function that characterizes the best technology (best practice), from which comparisons can be made between pro- duction units in terms of production efficiency and structure of production technology. Bio-based and Applied Economics 4(2): 165-178, 2015 ISSN 2280-6180 (print) \u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae Full Research Article DOI: 10.13128/BAE-13597 Technical efficiency in Brazilian citrus production Felippe Clemente*, ViViani SilVa l\u00edrio, mar\u00edlia Fernanda maCiel GomeS Federal University of Vi\u00e7osa, Minas Gerais, Brazil Date of submission: November 17th, 2013 Abstract.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3275", "words": "8545", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Cuffaro, Nadia; Di Giacinto, Marina", "title": "Credence goods, consumers\u2019 trust in regulation and high quality exports", "date": "2015", "keywords": "consumers; country; credence; demand; development; economics; food; goods; journal; origin; product; quality; regulation; standards", "summary": "Assuming that there is no learning or very slow learning on the part of consumers because of the credence nature of the attributes considered, in these type of markets in equilibrium products of different qualities can be sold as high quality products, in the sense of products that respect the specified standard. Premiums for high quality products as returns to reputations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3276", "words": "694", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "25", "author": "Scoppola, Margherita", "title": "Innovation, productivity and growth: towards sustainable agri-food production", "date": "2016", "keywords": "growth; productivity", "summary": "The Conference included about 50 papers addressing a range of research and policy issues such as: long-term patterns of worldwide food production and consumption; measur- ing and explaining agricultural productivity growth and gaps; the impact of agricultural productivity growth and innovation on income growth and poverty; sustainable knowl- edge intensification and innovation in agricultural production; design, implementation and evaluation of policies fostering sustainable agricultural innovation; the assessment of social, economic and environmental impacts of new bio-economic production and pro- cesses. The aim of the fourth Conference of the Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA), held in Ancona, June 11-12, 2015, was to provide a sci- entific contribution to these issues by expanding the knowledge base on the fundamen- tals of agricultural productivity growth and innovation, and also by promoting a critical debate on the underlying theoretical and methodological issues and policy implications.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3277", "words": "15722", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Fuglie, Keith", "title": "Accounting for growth in global agriculture", "date": "2015", "keywords": "agriculture; animal; capital; cost; countries; data; estimates; fao; feed; fuglie; growth; input; international; labor; land; livestock; output; output growth; production; productivity; productivity growth; rate; shares; tfp; tfp growth; total", "summary": "Agricultural output growth resumed in the 2000s, and most of this renewed growth can be attributed to improvement in TFP. In developing countries, agricultural productivity growth doubled from around 1% per year during 1960-1990 to around 2% per year during 1991-2012.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3278", "words": "11040", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Chatzinikolaou, Parthena; Viaggi, Davide; Raggi, Meri", "title": "The evaluation of Ecosystem Services production: an application in the Province of Ferrara", "date": "2015", "keywords": "0,0; activities; alternatives; analysis; area; criteria; ecosystem; ecosystem services; et al; evaluation; ferrara; indicators; management; number; production; promethee; provision; services; water", "summary": "K20 K21 K22 X1 13,72% 86,14% 84,66% 15,34% 91,20% 20,0% 80,0% 91,77% 1,19% 6,61% 10,30% X2 3,28% 98,63% 86,81% 13,19% 90,02% 0,0% 0,0% 93,16% 3,46% 5,0% 5,81% X3 4,39% 97,75% 81,85% 18,15% 92,72% 22,22% 77,78% 94,83% 2,14% 6,68% 3,24% X4 1,14% 84,13% 77,81% 22,19% 91,54% 43,75% 56,25% 91,86% 0,79% 6,08% 3,27% X5 3,91% 98,78% 81,41% 18,59% 91,36% 35,71% 64,29% 98,89% 6,69% 7,17% 6,73% X6 6,49% 92,49% 80,20% 19,80% 91,09% 25,23% 74,77% 96,62% 11,36% 15,44% 7,51% X7 3,88% 94,51% 84,93% 15,07% 91,06% 30,0% 70,0% 89,98% 0,72% 7,08% 3,99% X8 1,58% 88,79% 72,0% 28,0% 91,12% 19,77% 80,23% 81,79% 0,28% 6,42% 3,99% X9 1,09% 91,33% 88,64% 11,36% 92,18% 0,0% 100% 85,46% 2,16% 5,76% 5,83% X10 0,0% 93,97% 95,05% 4,95% 92,06% 25,0% 75,0% 99,53% 84,29% 1,75% 20,83% X11 46,19% 88,78% 100% 0,0% 90,57% 0,0% 100% 97,09% 4,62% 10,0% 5,53% X12 0,76% 86,34% 84,64% 15,36% 92,51% 33,33% 66,67% 93,23% 7,29% 5,54% 5,88% X13 8,43% 89,76% 91,94% 8,06% 92,73% 0,0% 100% 86,14% 0,9% 6,58% 6,12% X14 0,0% 84,78% 88,64% 11,36% 94,61% 0,0% 100% 98,63% 3,61% 7,73% 2,94% X15 11,23% 91,20% 86,35% 13,65% 88,17% 40,0% 60,0% 97,75% 26,99% 5,63% 12,41% X16 3,13% 90,02% 90,63% 9,37% 90,54% 0,0% 100% 84,13% 0,38% 7,52% 9,78% X17 0,0% 92,72% 88,64% 11,36% 92,68% 0,0% 100% 98,78% 0,86% 4,31% 3,85% X18 0,0% 91,54% 88,64% 11,36% 86,05% 0,0% 100% 92,49% 1,08% 5,95% 9,30% X19 0,44% 2,35% 8,16% 1,33% X14 1,32% 94,61% 98,63% 1,67% 5,61% 1,34% 0,06% 1,58% 13,05% 80,21% 18,15% X15 3,64% 88,17% 97,75% 5,55% 0,97% 0,0% 0,25% 3,67% 0,72% 91,69% 0,63% X16 1,19% 90,54% 84,13% 1,84% 4,95% 0,0% 0,18% 1,70% 2,40% 90,92% 39,77% X17 0,67% 92,68% 98,78%", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3279", "words": "8366", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Ciliberti, Stefano; Frascarelli, Angelo", "title": "A critical assessment of the implementation of CAP 2014-2020 direct payments in Italy", "date": "2015", "keywords": "cap; farmers; food; italy; national; objectives; payments; policy; production; scheme; share; support", "summary": "The results from a sample of 25 respondents show that Italian direct payments may positively contribute to viable food production by improving agricultural competitiveness. 3.2 Discussion Experts\u2019 evaluations concerning the potential impact of Italian direct payments on result indicators established by the EGMEC offer the opportunity to test the consistency between the policy decisions and the specific objectives of the First Pillar.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3280", "words": "11744", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Research and innovation in agriculture: beyond productivity?", "date": "2015", "keywords": "agriculture; assessment; attention; bioeconomy; doi; effects; impacts; innovation; issues; lca; new; policy; productivity; research; role; sustainability; technologies; time", "summary": "Besides environmental con- cerns, however, a number of recent concepts have emerged that are shaping the cur- rent research and policy agenda and which could result in a revision of the productiv- ity concepts used to evaluate research impacts. We argue that while the traditional notion of productivity, intended as output/input ratio, maintains (and may be strengthens) its role on the aggregate, a more analytical interpretation of the pathways towards research impacts is needed, as well as a broad- ened view of productivity and its determinants.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3281", "words": "10159", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": ", ", "title": "A tribute to Giovanni Anania: Scholar, Mentor, Friend", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anania; bananas; calabria; cap; contribution; development; eaae; european; giovanni; giovanni anania; international; italian; market; policy; reform; research; trade; tribute; work; wto", "summary": "Alex McCalla had the special pleasure interacting with Giovanni closely over an extended period as he worked through a complex theoretical and modelling topic in inter- 303A tribute to Giovanni Anania national trade. 316 A tribute to Giovanni Anania Referring to institutional service, fundamental is Giovanni\u2019s contribution to many organizations such as INEA, the Italian National Institution of Agricultural Economics (recently shut down by an unfortunate decision of the Italian government) and ISTAT, the Italian National Institute of Statistics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3282", "words": "2039", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Sauv\u00e9e, Lo\u00efc; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Biorefineries in the bio-based economy: opportunities and challenges for economic research", "date": "2016", "keywords": "bioeconomy; biorefineries; biorefinery; development; issue; research", "summary": "As a broad technological defi- nition, biorefinery is intended as the conversion of all kinds of biomass (organic residues, energy crops, aquatic biomass etc.) into a wide range of bio-based products, such as fuels, chemicals, power and heat, materials, food and feed (Demirbas, 2010). They highlight that the concept of territorial biorefinery does not reach a consensus among scholars.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3283", "words": "10333", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Bonfiglio, Andrea; Esposti, Roberto", "title": "Analysing the economy-wide impact of the supply chains activated by a new biomass power plant. The case of cardoon in Sardinia", "date": "2015", "keywords": "agricultural; area; benefits; biomass; cardoon; employment; impact; output; plant; power; sardinia; sector; substitution; value; \u23a2 \u23a2; \u23a5 \u23a5", "summary": "With reference to value added impacts, in the case of no substitution, the project generates an annual increase of 20.4 mio \u20ac, equiva- lent to an average of 0.07% of 2008 value added of Sardinia (Table 4). All areas would be penalized except for the rest of Sardina that will maintain about 69% of employment impact.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3284", "words": "8869", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Sivashankar, Pathmanathan; Weerahewa, Jeevika; Pushpakumara, Gamini; Galagedara, Lakshman", "title": "An estimation of the willingness to pay for biodiesel: a pilot study of diesel consumers", "date": "2016", "keywords": "biodiesel; consumers; economics; energy; fuel; jatropha; lanka; level; litre; price; production; products; respondents; sri; study; vehicle; wtp", "summary": "Knowledge of biofuels and Jatropha biodiesel production is limited among the respondents. Jatropha biodiesel production is in its infancy in Sri Lanka.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3285", "words": "7923", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ceapraz, Ion Lucian; Kotbi, Ga\u00eblle; Sauvee, Loic", "title": "The territorial biorefinery as a new business model", "date": "2016", "keywords": "activities; actors; approaches; biorefinery; business; concept; development; economic; energy; et al; industrial; location; model; research; socio; territory; transition", "summary": "We develop the idea of a link between the biore- finery and its territory through several relevant theoretical approaches and demonstrate that the definition of \u2018territorial biorefinery\u2019 does not achieve, from these theoretical backgrounds, a consensus. Territorial biorefinery, innovation, business model, industrial and territo- rial ecology JEL Codes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3286", "words": "8754", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Severini, Simone; Tantari, Antonella; Di Tommaso, Giuliano", "title": "The instability of farm income. Empirical evidences on aggregation bias and heterogeneity among farm groups", "date": "2016", "keywords": "data; farm; farm income; farming; groups; income; level; results; risk; sample; specialist; table; variability", "summary": "Furthermore, in the EU, farm incomes are supported by mean of direct payments that represent around 30% of farm income (European Commission, 2011) and have been claimed to reduce income var- iability (Agrosynergie, 2011; \u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae Full Research Article DOI: 10.13128/BAE-16367 The instability of farm income.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3287", "words": "7582", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Zavelberg, Yvonne; Heckelei, Thomas; Wieck, Christine", "title": "Entry deterring effects of contractual relations in the dairy processing sector", "date": "2016", "keywords": "compensation; contracts; dairy; entry; market; market entry; milk; model; price; producer; risk; rival", "summary": "The objective of this paper is to set up a game theoretic model to analyze imperfect competition on the raw milk market that may result from entry deterring effects of exclusive contracts between dairy producers and processors. Howev- er, in terms of number of processing facilities, only approximately 40% of the 137 active processing facilities in 2012 were cooperatives, the remaining ones are investor owned firms (AMI, 2014).2 The frequent use of contracts on the milk market may be explained by their ability to reduce price risks and to secure delivery quantities for dairy producers and input quanti- ties for processors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3288", "words": "492", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Greetings", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bae; years", "summary": "ISSN 2280-6180 (print) \u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae DOI: 10.13128/BAE-20085 Bio-based and Applied Economics 5(2): 99, 2016 After almost five years from its foundation and four and a half years of active publishing, the Bio-based and Applied Economics (BAE) journal has seen a change in its editorial team. BAE has, from the beginning, been one of the cornerstones of the newly founded Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3289", "words": "5606", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Towards an economics of the bioeconomy: four years later", "date": "2017", "keywords": "agriculture; bioeconomy; development; economics; food; journal; policy; research; technology; world", "summary": "Finally, technology can be addressed from the perspective of the specificities of bioeconomy technologies and how they can be represented in economic studies (Viaggi, 2016). The issue is however much wider as long as a number of bioeconomy technologies tend to substitute existing products and/or create links between different value chains.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3290", "words": "7678", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Li, Lihua; Bellotti, Bill; Komarek, Adam", "title": "Structural change and agricultural diversification since China\u2019s reforms", "date": "2016", "keywords": "agricultural; bank; change; china; development; diversification; economic; economy; gansu; growth; production; rural; sector; transformation; world", "summary": "\u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae Full Research Article DOI: 10.13128/BAE-16366 Structural change and agricultural diversification since China\u2019s reforms Lihua Li1,*, BiLL BeLLotti2, adam m. KomareK3 1 Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia - State Key Laboratory of Grassland Farming Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China 2 Vincent Fairfax Chair, Dean\u2019s Unit - School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia 3 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC 20006, USA Date of submission: 2015 29th, June; accepted 2016 21st, April Abstract. The degree of agricultural diversification was quantitatively measured at a regional scale using the Herfindahl index.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3291", "words": "1241", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Arfini, Filippo; Mancini, Maria Cecilia; Veneziani, Mario; Donati, Michele", "title": "Introduction. Sustainability of GI production systems in the framework of the TTIP negotiations", "date": "2016", "keywords": "food; international; products; trade", "summary": "Two elements identify and characterise GI products: the complexity and multifaceted nature of the concept of quality and the multifunctional role of GI systems. The multifunctional role of GI systems highlights the necessity of considering different \u201cdimensions\u201d of GI products at the same time.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3292", "words": "7132", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Wirth, David", "title": "Geographical indications, food safety, and sustainability: conflicts and synergies", "date": "2016", "keywords": "agreement; codex; food; food safety; gis; indications; iso; requirements; safety; standards; states; trade; wto", "summary": "The paper consequently examines the potential for conflict or reinforcement amongst GIs, food safety standards, and other claims of quality or safety. An SPS measure that is based on international standards, where they exist \u2013 in the case of food safety standards, as identified in the Codex Alimentarius \u2013 is entitled to a presumption of validity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3293", "words": "10011", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Mancini, Maria Cecilia; Consiglieri, Claudio", "title": "Innovation and marketing strategies for PDO products: the case of \u201cParmigiano Reggiano\u201d as an ingredient", "date": "2017", "keywords": "characteristics; cheese; consumer; food; information; ingredient; innovation; life; mancini; market; marketing; milk; new; parmigiano; parmigiano reggiano; pdo; pdo products; production; products; quality; reggiano; supply; use", "summary": "But product innovations with implications for the sensory properties are rejected (Cayot, 2007; K\u00fchne et al., 2010) and compromises on taste for health are not welcomed by consumers (Verbeke, 2006). \u201cProduct innovation may require new marketplaces to evolve and/or new marketing skills for the firm.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3294", "words": "12820", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Schmitt, Emilia; Barjolle, Dominique; Tanquerey-Cado, Ana\u00eblle; Brunori, Gianluca", "title": "Sustainability comparison of a local and a global milk value chains in Switzerland", "date": "2017", "keywords": "chain; farmers; food; indicators; local; milk; performance; supply; sustainability; value", "summary": "A careful analysis needs to be conducted to compare the sus- tainability performance of local food value chains with global ones. Input provider Interview 1.5 hour (common with local chain)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3295", "words": "8935", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan", "title": "On perishability and Vertical Price Transmission: empirical evidences from Italy", "date": "2016", "keywords": "economics; perishability; price; transmission", "summary": "Studies on vertical price transmission (VPT) have preeminently addressed four topics (Vavra and Goodwin, 2005): the magni- tude of price shocks transmission along the supply chain, the speed of transmission, the nature of price transmission in term of symmetry and asymmetries, and the direction of transmission (i.e. whether a shock is transmitted upwards or downwards). Introduction The interest in price transmission, and the number of studies focused on these top- ics, have rapidly increased during last decades (e.g.Griffith and Piggott, 1994; Benson et al., 2008; Santeramo, 2010; Cioffi et al., 2011; Santeramo and Cioffi, 2012a; Santeramo and Cioffi, 2012b; Abdelradi and Serra, 2015; Kinnucan and Zhang, 2015; Santeramo, 2015; Garcia-German et al., 2016): the implications they have on agricultural markets, industrial strategies, producer and consumer welfare are strong.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3296", "words": "418", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Moro, Daniele", "title": "Editorial", "date": "2017", "keywords": "economics; research", "summary": "Since the beginning, BAE has been pursuing this scope, welcoming contributions from several fields and disciplines, such as resource and environmental economics, con- sumer studies, regional economics, innovation and development economics, production economics, stimulating cross-fertilization among research fields, pointing-out connections and driving towards a tentative definition of a research field for the bioeconomy. According to its focus and scope, BAE provides a forum for presentation and discus- sion of applied research in the field of bio-based sectors and related policies, informing evidence-based decision-making and policy-making.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3297", "words": "766", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Sckokai, Paolo", "title": "The changing role of regulation in the bio-based economy: an introduction", "date": "2017", "keywords": "economy; food; regulation", "summary": "There is no doubt that, in these areas, the role of EU policies has increased dramatically and questions have been raised on the effec- tiveness, efficiency and equity of such regulations. In recent years, firms working in agri- cultural and food production, bioenergy and biotechnology have often protested against the supposed \u201cinvasive\u201d role of EU regulations in their activities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3298", "words": "9705", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Marette, Stephan", "title": "Quality, market mechanisms and regulation in the food chain", "date": "2017", "keywords": "chain; consumers; food; impact; information; label; linseed; marette; market; milk; participants; quality; regulation; supply; sustainability; wtp", "summary": "The application with milk products shows that interesting details, like the impact of regulatory tools on sustainability, may be tackled for helping public debates. For a participant i, the effect of ignorance was linked to the absence of information about the omega-3 is = \u2212D J WTP WTP[ 2 1 ]II i II i II", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3299", "words": "17519", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Galli, Francesca; Arcuri, Sabrina; Bartolini, Fabio; Vervoort, Joost; Brunori, Gianluca", "title": "Exploring scenario guided pathways for food assistance in Tuscany", "date": "2017", "keywords": "actors; approach; assistance; caritas; change; education; european; fns; food; food assistance; future; level; participants; pathways; plan; poverty; public; regional; scenario; social; society; system; tio; tuscany", "summary": "Further suggestions were made by stakeholders in relation to \u201cgovernance and network\u201d: for example setting very short term goals, such as organizing a meeting/seminar with the main actors of the food assistance system, or building a mailing list, or an online platform for sharing experiences (e.g., vid- eos) among food assistance actors. Instrumental to the mentioned objectives is enhancing project skills and planning as a specific competence of food assistance actors, that can open new avenues to food recovery.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3300", "words": "8845", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Vollaro, Michele; Galioto, Francesco; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "The circular economy and agriculture: new opportunities for re-using Phosphorus as fertilizer", "date": "2017", "keywords": "abatement; agriculture; chemical; costs; economy; fertilizers; phosphorus; plants; recovery; romagna; struvite; technologies; technology; treatment; use; wastewater", "summary": "These values show that there are no economic incentives for implementing P recovery technologies in the wastewater sector since it is cheaper for the fertilizer industry to continue using PR as feedstock. The actual consumption dynamics of P, however, indicate that P reserves are not sufficient to meet the growing P demand worldwide, even at lower prices (Scholz et al., 2013), and that improving P extrac- tion or investing in searching new reserves might yield higher costs and lower quality of P fertilizers (Van Vuuren et al., 2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3301", "words": "18136", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Olper, Alessandro", "title": "The political economy of trade-related regulatory policy: environment and global value chain", "date": "2017", "keywords": "costs; countries; economics; economy; firms; food; foreign; government; home; journal; lobby; measures; model; ntms; policy; protection; sps; standards; tariff; tbt; trade; trade policy; value; welfare; wto", "summary": "I focus instead on what I believe are some of the key contributions of the political economy of trade policy as extended to product and environmental regulations. Starting from the box and arrows on the right in the figure, voters and interest groups in society have con- flicting preferences over trade policy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3302", "words": "4064", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Tagliabue, Giovanni", "title": "\u201cGMO\u201d maize and public health \u2013 A case of Schumpeterian policy vs. free market in the EU", "date": "2017", "keywords": "august; commission; cultivation; european; european commission; food; gmo; gmos; maize; regulation", "summary": "Crude but truthful realism, which explains policy outcomes substantially dictated by a calculus of consent: most probably, in our case EU politicians reckoned that an adjust- ment of the admitted threshold of maize contaminants would have cost them less than the possible outrage deriving from encouraging \u201cGMO\u201d cultivation. Paradoxical EU agricultural policies on genetically engineered crops.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3303", "words": "6909", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ronzon, T\u00e9v\u00e9cia; Piotrowski, Stephan; M\u2019Barek, Robert; Carus, Michael", "title": "A systematic approach to understanding and quantifying the EU\u2019s bioeconomy", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bioeconomy; biomass; european; labour; manufacture; member; person; products; sectors; turnover", "summary": "Bioeconomy sectors have developed differently according to Member State biomass endowment or Member States access to biomass (e.g. commercial harbours), and also according to prior sectorial development (e.g. maturity of bio-based manufactur- ing sectors). Those sectors, together with the manufacture of food, beverages and tobacco, are also those displaying the largest labour productivity gap (in terms of turnover per person employed) with groups A and B. Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden and Finland have reached very high levels of bioeconomy turnover per person compared with other group C Member States.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3304", "words": "7361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Paris, Quirino", "title": "Cost function and positive mathematical programming", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cost; elasticities; farm; function; input; levels; model; pmp; prices; solution", "summary": "The vector of output marginal cost functions is stated as MCx = \u2202C \u2202x = (g'y) f +(g'y)Qx+ f No input price entered this type of cost function.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3305", "words": "8150", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Santini, Fabien; Ronzon, T\u00e9v\u00e9cia; Perez Dominguez, Ignacio; Araujo Enciso, Sergio Ren\u00e9; Proietti, Ilaria", "title": "What if meat consumption would decrease more than expected in the high-income countries?", "date": "2017", "keywords": "baseline; beef; consumption; countries; decrease; european; food; income; livestock; markets; meat; meat consumption; production; protein; scenario; world", "summary": "Lower world prices for meat provoke meat consumption increase in the rest of the world, mitigating overall the impact on world prices. \u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae Full Research Article DOI: 10.13128/BAE-16372 What if meat consumption would decrease more than expected in the high-income countries?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3306", "words": "11014", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Menozzi, Davide; Kostov, Kaloyan; Sogari, Giovanni; Arpaia, Salvatore; Moyankova, Daniela; Mora, Cristina", "title": "A stakeholder engagement approach for identifying future research directions in the evaluation of current and emerging applications of GMOs", "date": "2017", "keywords": "activities; animal; assessment; crops; effects; environment; european; experts; food; future; gm crops; gmos; group; health; human; needs; plants; projects; research; research needs; socio; stakeholders", "summary": "It is notable that although a plethora of research projects have been conducted result- ing in scientific publications which examine the impacts of GM crops on the receiving environments, on animal and human health, and on the functioning of farms, markets and 59Stakeholder engagement: identifying future directions for GMO research rural communities, the technology is still controversial on a number of levels. 63Stakeholder engagement: identifying future directions for GMO research 3.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3307", "words": "15191", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Fastelli, Laura; Landi, Chiara; Rovai, Massimo; Andreoli, Maria", "title": "A spatial analysis of terrain features and farming styles in a disadvantaged area of Tuscany (Mugello): implications for the evaluation and the design of CAP payments", "date": "2017", "keywords": "altitude; analysis; areas; data; development; distribution; farming; farming styles; farms; features; land; level; mugello; payments; rdp; styles; table; terrain; total; use; zone", "summary": "Farm style 1 1.5148e+11 1.5148e+11 20.399*** Residuals 819 6.0817e+12 7.4258e+09 Fischer exact test Pearson chi2 Share of farms 0.00 135.8344 Source: own elaboration on ARTEA data (2007-2012) and census data (2010). Policy makers should use this approach to design, monitor and assess the impact of local agricultural policies, which, in order to be effec- tive, should be able to fit the needs of specific rural sub-areas and farm styles.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3308", "words": "2025", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": ", ", "title": "AIEAA - Discussion Paper on the CAP after 2020", "date": "2017", "keywords": "agriculture; cap; european; farmers; policy", "summary": "The CAP should rather consider factors affecting agricultural income that cannot be addressed neither at the individual nor at the regional or national level, such as price variability and increased environmental risks, and provide a common ground for food safety, food and nutrition security within the common Euro- pean market, and trade policy. \u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae DOI: 10.13128/BAE-21212 Editorial AIEAA - Discussion Paper on the CAP after 2020 The diversity of agricultural systems in the European Union challenges policy mak- ers asking for a renewed capacity to take into account the needs and the aspirations of all actors of the European countryside: farmers, consumers, institutions and territories.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3309", "words": "8453", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Baldoni, Edoardo; Coderoni, Silvia; Esposti, Roberto", "title": "The productivity and environment nexus with farm-level data. The Case of Carbon Footprint in Lombardy FADN farms", "date": "2017", "keywords": "agriculture; coderoni; data; emissions; fadn; farm; ghg; level; livestock; nexus; production; productivity; size; tfp", "summary": "The \u201cCF fuel\u201d has been estimated using alternatively the quantities of fuel purchased and total fuel expenditure at farm level. Correlation Between Farm-Level TFP and EI An initial and intuitive evidence about the nexus between TFP and EI at farm level is provided by the simple (Pearson) correlation coefficient between the two indicators (Table A.2).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3310", "words": "7829", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Wane, Abdrahmane; Tour\u00e9, Ibra; Mballo, Aliou; Nokho, Cheikh; Ndiaye, Aminata", "title": "Non-livestock value chains. Lateral thinking for the securing of the Sahelian livestock economies", "date": "2017", "keywords": "actors; agropastoralists; analysis; chain; influence; livestock; market; middlemen; network; peanut; percent; producers; production; thiel; value; value chain; wane", "summary": "They should design sustainable intensification options, minimise losses and wastes in peanut value chains and systematise impact assessments of major solutions through a gender lens, given that the impact of gender on these issues should be considered as improvement strategies are developed. Relationships between peanut value chain actors should be further characterised by the analysis of the influence of each of them (i.e., the power relationships).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3311", "words": "13087", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Corsi, Alessandro; Salvioni, Cristina", "title": "Once part-timer always part-timer? Causes for persistence in off farm work state of farmers", "date": "2017", "keywords": "characteristics; data; dependence; economics; effect; farm; farm labour; farm work; heterogeneity; income; labour; model; participation; persistence; results; state; variables; work", "summary": "Causes for persistence in off farm work state of farmers AlessAndro Corsi1,*, CristinA sAlvioni2 1 Department of Economics and Statistics \u201cCognetti de Martiis\u201d, Universit\u00e0 di Torino, Italy 2 Department of Economics, Universit\u00e0 di Chieti-Pescara, Italy Date of submission: 2016 13th, October; accepted 2017 23th, May Abstract. 161Causes for persistence in off farm work state of farmers A common feature of this stream of research, with a few exceptions, is that the analy- ses are based on cross-sectional samples2.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3312", "words": "10702", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Bertolini, Paola; Pagliacci, Francesco", "title": "Quality of life and territorial imbalances. A focus on italian inner and rural areas", "date": "2017", "keywords": "areas; barca; indicators; level; life; local; mpi; nuts; population; presence; qol; regions; rural; services; strategy; sub; values", "summary": "Pearson correlation coefficients between inner areas indicators and indicators of QoL (p-val- ues in parenthesis). \u00a0 Pearson correlation coefficients between inner areas indicators and indicators of QoL by mac- ro-regions (p-values in parenthesis).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3313", "words": "9281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "\u00c7a\u011fatay, Selim; Ta\u015fdo\u011fan, Celal; \u00d6ze\u015f, Reyhan", "title": "Analysing the impact of targeted bio-ethanol blending ratio in Turkey", "date": "2017", "keywords": "beet; bio; blending; demand; ethanol; fuel; imports; income; maize; policy; price; production; scenario; sugar; table; trade; turkey; wheat; \u00e7a\u011fatay", "summary": "Based on the importance of bio-ethanol use in the world and in Turkey, this study aims at analysing effects of the imposed bio-ethanol blending rates by the EMRA on the agricultural products\u2019 markets, household income, factor markets and policy costs. One of the limited numbers of empirical studies carried out on the impacts of bio-fuel production and consumption in Turkey is that of Hatunoglu (2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3314", "words": "6864", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "de Brauw, Alan", "title": "Rural-urban migration and implications for rural production", "date": "2018", "keywords": "agriculture; brauw; china; development; economic; evidence; gap; households; investments; journal; labor; migrants; migration; production; productivity; remittances", "summary": "237Rural-urban migration and implications for rural production 3.2 Impacts of migration on household investments Migration is a dynamic process, and perhaps not surprisingly it therefore can also affect the types of investments that rural households make. Rural to urban migration has always been an inherent part of the economic development process, but its impacts are poorly understood, and are often feared by governments, which has led to policies that either attempt to explicitly or implicitly hinder migration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3315", "words": "7823", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Osti, Giorgio", "title": "Migrants to rural areas as a social movement: insights from Italy", "date": "2018", "keywords": "agriculture; areas; foreigners; italian; italy; labour; migrants; migration; mobilisation; movement; new; non; osti; people; public; sector; trade; unions; workers", "summary": "Trade Unions are deeply involved in the protection of foreigner migrants against any abuse. Farm migrants between spatial fixity and social mobility", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3316", "words": "8207", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Baldoni, Edoardo; Coderoni, Silvia; Esposti, Roberto", "title": "Immigrant workforce and labour productivity in Italian agriculture: a farm-level analysis", "date": "2018", "keywords": "agriculture; data; fadn; farm; immigrant; labour; level; presence; productivity; sample; seasonal; share; total; workers; workforce", "summary": "Immigrant workforce in Italian agriculture thorough FADN data The FADN dataset gives interesting insights on the presence of immigrant workforce in Italian agriculture highlighting their relevant contribution to Italian agricultural pro- duction (Table 2). The empirical model To more properly assess the possible nexus between LP and immigrant workforce at farm level, a panel data analysis has been performed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3317", "words": "7569", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Arata, Linda; Hauschild, Sofia; Sckokai, Paolo", "title": "Economic and social impact of grape growing in Northeastern Brazil", "date": "2018", "keywords": "average; bias; brazil; control; effect; grape; grape production; group; index; level; matching; mcas; score; theil; treatment", "summary": "Indeed, the municipalities that grow grape experience a decrease in the level of Theil index by 11.7% compared to the level they would have if they had not participate in grape production. Grape production, socio-economic indicators, Brazil, Propensity Score Matching.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3318", "words": "10179", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Pupo D'Andrea, Maria Rosaria; Romeo Lironcurti, Simona", "title": "Is the one of the \u201cactive farmer\u201d a false problem?", "date": "2018", "keywords": "activity; article; cap; european; farmer; member; member states; payments; reform; rules; states; support; threshold", "summary": "However, the high administrative costs in respect to the benefit of excluding a very limited number of non-active farmers were recognized by the Commission which, for this reason, has pro- posed, as part of the Omnibus Regulation (COM(2016)605), to give Member States the pos- sibility to make optional the application of the rules on \u201cactive farmer\u201d, starting from 2018. The analysis carried out highlights the heterogeneity in the national implementation of the rules on \u201cactive farmer\u201d and the importance of the national leg- islation of some Member States in limiting the access to direct payments, regardless of EU rules.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3319", "words": "7469", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Sasaki, Hiroki", "title": "Do japanese citizens move to rural areas seeking a slower life? Differences between rural and urban areas in subjective well-being", "date": "2018", "keywords": "agriculture; areas; citizens; income; japanese; life; residents; respondents; rural; swb; urban; variable", "summary": "\u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae Full Research Article DOI: 10.13128/BAE-24045 Do japanese citizens move to rural areas seeking a slower life? In recent years, however, young people in Japan have been increasingly turning to rural areas to embrace a slower, less-hectic lifestyle.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3320", "words": "9083", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Viccaro, Mauro; Rocchi, Benedetto; Cozzi, Mario; Romano, Severino", "title": "SAM multipliers and subsystems: structural analysis of the Basilicata\u2019s agri-food sector", "date": "2018", "keywords": "activities; agri; analysis; basilicata; demand; economy; food; food sector; industry; output; production; regional; rest; sam; sector; system; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "The most interesting aspect is the reduction in imports recorded just after the economic crisis of 2007 till now, both for the agricultural products (-18%) and for food and beverages (-39%), combined with a significant increase in exports, equal to +24.5% for agriculture and +49% for the food sector (ISTAT, 2016b). Number and % of Basili- cata\u2019s operating firms by econom- ic sectors (2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3321", "words": "7655", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "DeMaria, Federica; Lubello, Pasquale; Drogu\u00e9, Sophie", "title": "Measuring the complexity of complying with phytosanitary standard: the case of French and Chilean fresh apples", "date": "2018", "keywords": "apples; case; chile; complexity; countries; country; france; market; phytosanitary; regulations; requirements; trade; treatment; yes", "summary": "France and Chile apple exports (1993-2013). PS value by range and average volume of Chile apple export (2007-2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3322", "words": "13066", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Fastigi, Matteo; Vigan\u00f2, Elena; Esposti, Roberto", "title": "The italian microbrewing experience: features and perspectives", "date": "2018", "keywords": "beer; breweries; brewers; brewing; comparison; craft; craft beer; expectations; experience; fastigi; food; italy; market; microbreweries; new; number; perspectives; producers; production; sector; supply; terms; test; years", "summary": "Introduction In Italy, craft beer production is a recent and original phenomenon which is not only growing at a fast pace and being appreciated by consumers, but is also outperforming many other sectors of the domestic food and beverage industry, right in the middle of an adverse economic scenario. While there is a wide literature referring to the wine sector (in which Italy has always stood out for its high-quality productions and widespread consumption), stud- ies covering the Italian brewing sector are mainly descriptive or focusing on specific aspects1, showing that more thorough analyses are needed in order to understand the astonishing development of craft beer productions and the adoption of new brewing business models.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-3323", "words": "4431", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Boza, Sof\u00eda", "title": "Sanitary and phytosanitary measures in the context of the CPTPP agreement", "date": "2018", "keywords": "agreement; cptpp; cptpp agreement; measures; parties; party; phytosanitary; sps; sps agreement; trade; wto", "summary": "The WTO SPS Agreement also enhances members\u2019 communication through national Enquiry Points. Sof\u00eda Boza The CPTPP SPS Chapter also establishes parallel mechanisms to those under the WTO SPS Agreement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7670", "words": "9180", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Avanzini, Marco; Salvador, Isabella; Gios, Geremia", "title": "Climate change and variations in mountain pasture values in the central-eastern Italian Alps in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries", "date": "2019", "keywords": "alps; altitude; analysis; area; century; change; climate; grazing; lands; mountain; pastures; period; population; rent; spring; study; temperature; values; variations; years", "summary": "\u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae Full Research Article DOI: 10.13128/bae-7670 Climate change and variations in mountain pasture values in the central-eastern Italian Alps in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Marco avanzini1, isabella salvador2,1, GereMia Gios2,* 1 MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, C.so del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, I-38123, Trento, Italy 2 University of Trento, Department of Economics and Management, Via Inama 5, I-38122 Trento, Italy Date of submission: 2017, 26th, January; accepted 2018, 18th, June Abstract. (Bussolon and Martini, 2007) 99Climate change and historical variations in mountain pasture values minimum (under the influence of the Russo-Siberian anticyclone in the cold months) fol- lowed by a maximum between spring and autumn.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7671", "words": "9974", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Pomal\u00e9gni, S\u00e8tch\u00e9m\u00e8 Charles Bertrand; Kpad\u00e9, Cokou Patrice; Gbemavo, Dossou S\u00e8blodo Judes Charlemagne; Clottey, Victor Attuquaye; Kenis, Marc; Mensah, Guy Apollinaire", "title": "Traditional poultry farmers\u2019 willingness to pay for using fly larvae meal as protein source to feed local chickens in Benin", "date": "2019", "keywords": "farmers; farming; fcfa; feed; fly; fly larvae; larvae; larvae meal; meal; pay; poultry; poultry farmers; production; protein; respondents; use; wtp; yes", "summary": "Men have a higher WTP compared to women, indicating a gender effect on the level of traditional poultry farmers WTP, as observed by Vidogb\u00e9na et al. (2015) and Wu et al. (2016). We found that 82.10% of poultry farmers are willing to pay for using fly larvae meal.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7672", "words": "9620", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Jafari, Yaghoob; Britz, Wolfgang; Beckman, Jayson", "title": "The impacts to food consumers of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership", "date": "2019", "keywords": "-0.1; -0.2; analysis; costs; exports; firms; food; impacts; increase; model; number; productivity; products; scenario; trade; welfare", "summary": "150 Yaghoob Jafari, Wolfgang Britz, Jayson Beckman first column refers to the domestic market, the second column denotes intra-EU trade, the third and fourth columns show EU trade with the US and other regions not included in the transatlantic trade block (hereafter referred as nonTTIP). Changes in the cost generating basis of NTMs are modeled by changing the variable portion of trade costs (since there are no fixed costs in an Armington model).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7673", "words": "8981", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ciliberti, Stefano; Frascarelli, Angelo", "title": "The income effect of CAP subsidies: implications of distributional leakages for transfer efficiency in Italy", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cap; d\u03c0 dr; effect; farm; farmers; income; land; payments; policy; subsidies; support", "summary": "It clearly follows that the type of support matters when measuring its impact on farm income. To this purpose a dynamic panel data estimation is implemented to quantify the impact of these different policy tools on farm income and to indirectly eval- uate the transfer efficiency of these aids.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7674", "words": "5331", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Bioeconomy and the Common Agricultural Policy: will a strategy in search of policies meet a policy in search of strategies?", "date": "2019", "keywords": "action; bioeconomy; cap; development; doi; innovation; policy; research; sectors; strategy; value", "summary": "3.2 Bioeconomy sectors and markets The pragmatic identification of the Bioeconomy as an overarching concept encom- passing or including different sectors, as well as the envisaging of only a (mainly) stra- tegic approach from the point of view of Bioeconomy policy, somehow refocuses atten- tion, including for the Bioeconomy, on the functioning of markets and their dynamics. However, the EU\u2019s Bioeconomy action and most country strategies rely more on strategies than Bioeconomy policies, leaving to specific sector policies the role to implement actions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7675", "words": "9135", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Paris, Quirino", "title": "Positive Mathematical Programming and Risk Analysis", "date": "2019", "keywords": "aversion; constraints; cost; function; model; output; phase; pmp; programming; risk", "summary": "Here marginal cost has two parts: the marginal cost due to limiting and vari- able inputs, A\u00b4y+Wh, and the marginal cost of output price risk, \u03b3(x\u00b4\u2211px)(\u03b3/2-1)\u2211px. Because constraints (16)-(22) represent primal and dual relations and their complementary slackness conditions, any feasible solution of rela- tions (16)-(22) constitutes an admissible economic equilibrium that is consistent with the behavior of decision making under price risk.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7676", "words": "7798", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Cacchiarelli, Luca; Carbone, Anna; Laureti, Tiziana; Sorrentino, Alessandro", "title": "The hedonic contents of italian super premium extra-virgin olive oils", "date": "2019", "keywords": "clues; consumers; food; market; model; oil; oils; olive; origin; premium; price; production; quality; quantile; regression; wine", "summary": "Quantile regression (Koenker, 2005) is used for estimating the functional relationship between olive oil price and quality attributes at different points in the condi- tional distribution of y. Moreover, quantile regression is more robust than OLS regression in response to large outliers which may be present in the olive-oil top market segment. Quantile regression has been used for analyzing the functional relation- ship between olive oil price and quality attributes at different points in the conditional dis- tribution of price.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7677", "words": "7871", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Hockmann, Heinrich; Garzon Delvaux, Pedro Andres; Voigt, Peter; Ciaian, Pavel; Gomez y Paloma, Sergio", "title": "Corporate R&D and the performance of food-processing firms: Evidence from Europe, Japan and North America", "date": "2019", "keywords": "capital; companies; data; firms; food; industry; innovation; performance; processing; r&d; research; sector; variables", "summary": "To estimate the impact of private R&D on firm productivity we adopt a two-step approach. Model 1A starts with a sim- ple specification of the estimated equation which includes private R&D (perpetual inven- tory), public R&D (GERD/per capita), time dummies, and regional dummies (US, Japan, EU, etc.) with Canada serving as the reference country.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7678", "words": "7121", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Castellari, Elena; Marette, St\u00e9phan; Moro, Daniele; Sckokai, Paolo", "title": "Can menu labeling affect away-from-home-dietary choices?", "date": "2019", "keywords": "away; caloric; choices; dish; effect; et al; food; home; information; journal; labeling; labels; meal; menu; provision", "summary": "In a systematic review, Mazzocchi and Trail (2005) evaluated the effect of food label in portion size consumption and they found varying impacts, from increasing, to decreas- ing or no effect. Bonanno et al. (2018), using a quantile regression approach, have shown that the rela- tionship between reading food labels and BMI highly differs among demographics groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7679", "words": "5647", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Coletta, Attilio; Giampietri, Elisa; Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Severini, Simone; Trestini, Samuele", "title": "A preliminary test on risk and ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences in decisions under uncertainty: towards a better explanation of participation in crop insurance schemes", "date": "2019", "keywords": "ambiguity; aversion; contracts; crop; insurance; lottery; preferences; risk; time", "summary": "In terms of coefficients of risk aversion and risk ambiguity, we have quite heterogene- ous results: the coefficient of risk aversion ranges from 0.05 to 0.95 and the coefficient of ambiguity aversion ranges from -0.50 to 0.83. The analy- sis, conducted on a sample of students of agricultural disciplines allows to conclude on whether the methodological approach is worth replication to a set of Italian farmers, rep- resentative of the latent demand for crop insurance contracts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7758", "words": "9682", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Megos Meressa, Abrha; Navrud, Stale", "title": "Not my cup of coffee: Farmers\u2019 preferences for coffee variety traits \u2013 Lessons for crop breeding in the age of climate change", "date": "2020", "keywords": "alternative; attributes; change; choice; coffee; coffee varieties; disease; farmers; maturity; model; new; preferences; study; tolerance; tolerant; traits; varieties; variety; weather; yield", "summary": "This knowledge can be used to construct breeding programs for coffee varieties farmers are likely to adopt, and thus conserve in-situ. 265Not my cup of coffee: Farmers\u2019 preferences for coffee variety traits (Hein & Gatzweiler, 2006).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7764", "words": "8991", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Sagebiel, Julian; Glenk, Klaus; Meyerhoff, J\u00fcrgen", "title": "Does the place of residence affect land use preferences? Evidence from a choice experiment in Germany", "date": "2020", "keywords": "agglomerations; categories; changes; choice; class; cultural; differences; forest; landscapes; preferences; respondents; share; urban; use; values; willingness", "summary": "Landscape preferences, latent class model, spatial heterogeneity, willing- ness to pay. Especially people from urban areas and farm- and grass- land landscapes have larger willingness to pay values for improvements in cultural eco- system services than people from forest landscapes and cultural landscapes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7768", "words": "6676", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Franceschinis, Cristiano; Thiene, Mara", "title": "Investigating determinants of choice and predicting market shares of renewable-based heating systems under alternative policy scenarios", "date": "2020", "keywords": "biomass; choice; class; cost; heating; investment; market; reduction; scenarios; shares; systems; technologies; wood", "summary": "None 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Bi om as s m ar ke t s ha re (% ) Operational costs reduction Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 239Market shares of renewable-based heating systems Acknowledgments $e research was funded by Interdepartmental Centre Giorgio Levi Cases for Energy Economics and Technology (University of Padova), \u201cSustainability of introduction of pel- let based heating systems in a mountain area\u201d. As such, instal- lation of renewable based residential heating systems in new buildings and replacement of fossil fuel technologies in existing ones plays a crucial role in the energy system transition.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7928", "words": "10039", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "De Salvo, Maria; Scarpa, Riccardo; Capitello, Roberta; Begalli, Diego", "title": "Multi-country stated preferences choice analysis for fresh tomatoes", "date": "2020", "keywords": "analysis; attributes; choice; consumers; countries; country; eco; estimates; food; market; pay; preferences; price; safety; scarpa; space; tomatoes", "summary": "Consumer attitudes and preferences for fresh market tomatoes. Determin- ing consumers\u2019 preferences and Willingness to Pay (WTP) for fresh tomato attributes is important to stakeholders in this industry (e.g., agricultural producers, intermediaries and retailers).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-7961", "words": "14169", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Spiegel, Alisa; Severini, Simone; Britz, Wolfgang; Coletta, Attilio", "title": "Step-by-step development of a model simulating returns on farm from investments: the example of hazelnut plantation in Italy: The example of hazelnut plantation in Italy", "date": "2020", "keywords": "costs; durum; farm; financing; hazelnuts; investment; level; model; node; npv; plantation; production; risk; scenario; stochastic; time; tree; wheat", "summary": "Section 5 concludes with a discussion of pros and cons of the different model variants and provides sugges- tions for further research on farm investments. [\u20ac]; iniCost for the costs associated with initial establishment of hazelnut plantation [\u20ac ha-1]; dr for the discount rate [%]; reconvCost for the costs associated with final clear-cut of hazelnut plantation [\u20ac ha-1]; invCostWell for costs of well and irrigation equipment for hazelnut [\u20ac]; invCostMachm,y for investment costs of machinery m{smaller;standalone;irrigation;tractor; operating} [\u20ac]; E[wage] for expected costs of hired labour [\u20ac h-1].", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8087", "words": "8834", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Campbell, Danny; Sandorf, Erlend Dancke", "title": "The use of latent variable models in policy: A road fraught with peril?", "date": "2020", "keywords": "attitudes; bias; choice; correlation; data; indicator; latent; latent variable; model; mwtp; parameters; policy; use", "summary": "This insight suggests that if the main interest is on describing the means of the posterior MWTP distributions at the sample level, model choice is perhaps only consequential when the MWTP distribution 7 For this, we subtract the actual individual-specific MWTP from the mean of the predicted individual-specific posterior MWTP and take the arithmetic mean for each data generation setting and model and, again, apply the LOESS method with a smoothing parameter of 0.4. This paper explores the potential usefulness and possible pitfalls of using inte- grated choice and latent variable models (hybrid choice models) on stated choice data to inform policy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8143", "words": "1196", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Moro, Daniele; Santeramo, Gaetano; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "The future of Bio-Based and Applied Economics", "date": "2020", "keywords": "bae; economics; editorial; journal", "summary": "In turn, the ability of BAE to be an active actor in detecting and promoting scientific debate on such new issues, as well as taking up the challenges and the opportunities, and anticipating (or even leading) tran- sitions, will be key for the future of the journal. BAE is now a well-established international journal, currently indexed in several scientific databases, including ISI-Web of Science and Scopus.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8144", "words": "8051", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Mack, Gabriele; Ferjani, Ali; M\u00f6hring, Anke; von Ow, Albert; Mann, Stefan", "title": "How did farmers act? Ex-post validation of linear and positive mathematical programming approaches for farm-level models implemented in an agent-based agricultural sector model", "date": "2020", "keywords": "activities; animal; cost; crop; farm; forecasting; functions; linear; model; modelling; new; options; pmp; production; production activities", "summary": "The main advantages of PMP models over conventional LP models are that they guarantee exact calibration to the base year and avoid predicting overspecialisation without adding weakly justified constraints to the model formulation (Kanellopoulos et al., 2010). Further *Corresponding author: Gabriele.mack@agroscope.admin.ch 4 G. Mack et alii advantages of PMP models are that they do not require large datasets and can be viewed as a bridge between econometric models, with substantial data requirements, and more limited LP models (Heckelei and Britz, 2005; Howitt et al., 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8145", "words": "21174", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Romano, Donato; Stefani, Gianluca; Rocchi, Benedetto; Fiorillo, Ciro", "title": "The impact of assistance on poverty and food security in a fragile and protracted-crisis context: the case of West Bank and Gaza Strip", "date": "2020", "keywords": "-0.02; aid; analysis; assistance; bank; conflict; context; crisis; development; economic; effect; evidence; fcs; food; food assistance; food security; gaza; gaza strip; growth; household; impact; international; new; palestine; palestinian; poverty; strip; studies; table; west; west bank; world", "summary": "The first component, which includes cereals, tubers, pulses, fruits and vegetables, is positive though significant only at p=90%. The second component, which includes oil and sugar, has a positive and significant impact at p=95%.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8146", "words": "5202", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Grilli, Gianluca", "title": "Assessing Price Sensitivity of Forest Recreational Tourists in a Mountain Destination", "date": "2020", "keywords": "cost; destination; elasticity; forest; model; number; price; recreation; tourism; tourists; travel; trips", "summary": "The size of our sample is small but it is com- parable to other studies, as travel cost model estimation is less data demanding compared to stated preference surveys (Champ et al., 2003). Travel cost, forest recreation, price elasticity, Carpathians, rural develop- ment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8147", "words": "11863", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Seidel, Claudia; Britz, Wolfgang", "title": "Estimating a Dual Value Function as a Meta-Model of a Detailed Dynamic Mathematical Programming Model", "date": "2020", "keywords": "abm; agent; approach; britz; factors; farm; farming; function; income; land; meta; model; modeling; mp model; production; quantities; returns; simulation; value; value function; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "However, introducing dynamics and indivisibilities in MP models renders their solution computing time intensive. To represent realistically the decision space of agents, espe- cially when considering investments, MP models require a large set of constraints as well as binary and integer variables (Mixed Integer Program, MIP).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8242", "words": "10718", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Kurtsal, Yaprak; Karakaya Ayalp, Emel; Viaggi, Davide ", "title": "Exploring governance mechanisms, collaborative processes and main challenges in short food supply chains: the case of Turkey", "date": "2020", "keywords": "case; challenges; community; consumers; farmers; food; governance; groups; initiatives; izmir; market; mechanisms; networks; processes; producers; production; study", "summary": "Especially, in cases where local food initiatives can collaborate with other local actors such as local municipalities, public schools, or local organizations or community projects, the variety of citizens and geographies reached can be widened. Oth- er studies in the literature also highlighted lack of consumer demand being experienced by local food networks, and the importance of participatory governance mechanisms, in which multiple actors from different levels and sectors need to work together to achieve these common goals (Yacam\u00e1n Ochoa et al., 2019; Nchanji, 2017; Reis, 2019; Manganelli and Moulaert, 2018; Dedeurwaerdere et al., 2017; Jones, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8287", "words": "12439", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ryan, Mary; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Hynes, Stephen; Kilgarriff, Paul ; Tsakiridis, Andreas", "title": "Assessing preferences for rural landscapes: An attribute based choice modelling approach", "date": "2020", "keywords": "approach; attributes; c om; characteristics; component; ecosystem; environmental; et al; human; hynes; landscape; landscape attributes; landscape preferences; model; policy; preferences; public; rural; services; use; value", "summary": "5. Results The results of the models of landscape attribute preferences are considered separately for the ordinal logit and the continuous dependent variable panel and pooled OLS mod- els. Howley (2011) assessed the effect of personal, geographic and environmental value orientations on landscape preferences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8337", "words": "7936", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Lamonaca, Emilia; Carlucci, Domenico; De Devitiis, Biagia; Seccia, Antonio; Viscecchia, Rosaria; Nardone, Gianluca", "title": "On the relevance of the Region-Of-Origin in consumers studies", "date": "2020", "keywords": "articles; consumers; et al; food; importance; index; journal; observations; origin; products; publication; quality; roo; wine", "summary": "It is worth noting that, in our sample, the vast majority of articles published in Q3 journals are wine-based studies (e.g. Johnson and Bruwer, 2007; Bruwer et al., 2012; Robertson et al., 2018) that tends to be negatively correlated with the relative importance of RoO (negative and significant coef- ficient reported in column E). Our contribution is to provide a finer granular over- view of the RoO effects as relates to consumer product evaluations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8340", "words": "7201", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Targetti, Stefano; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide ", "title": "Benefits for the local society attached to rural landscape: An analysis of residents\u2019 perception of ecosystem services", "date": "2020", "keywords": "analysis; areas; benefits; ecosystem; elements; landscape; landscape elements; living; perception; residents; services; water", "summary": "A mul- tiple correspondence analysis (Husson et al., 2020) was employed to assess the relation- ships between the categorical variables (perception of landscape element benefits, zone of residency and place of living). A range of works in different rural areas highlights some general trends or driv- ers of landscape perception from local dwellers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8416", "words": "12614", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Giampietri, Elisa; Yu, Xiaohua; Trestini, Samuele", "title": "The role of trust and perceived barriers on farmer\u2019s intention to adopt risk management tools", "date": "2020", "keywords": "adoption; barriers; economics; et al; farmers; income; insurance; intention; ist; level; management; model; new; policy; risk; role; tools; trust", "summary": "Risk aversion, subjective beliefs, and farmer risk management strategies. Categories Description N. Obs % Mean S.D. Gender (Sex) (0) female 29 27.6 (1) male 76 72.4 \u00a0 \u00a0 Age (Age) n. years \u00a0 \u00a0 40.12 13.55 Education (Education) (1) primary school 3 2.9 (2) secondary school 14 13.3 (3) upper secondary school 66 62.9 (4) university degree 22 21.0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Average farm revenue (Revenue) (gross income from farming/year) (1) less than 50,000\u20ac 62 59.0 (2) 50,000\u20ac - 100,000\u20ac 28 26.7 (3) 100,000\u20ac - 250,000\u20ac 11 10.5 (4) more than 250,000\u20ac 4 3.8 \u00a0 \u00a0 Utilised Agricultural Area (Uaa) n. hectares \u00a0 14.25 17.04 How relevant are the changes to RM policy provided by the Omnibus Regulation, in order to adopt risk management tools in your farm?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8464", "words": "10974", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Cei, Leonardo; Stefani, Gianluca; Defrancesco, Edi", "title": "The role of group-time treatment effect heterogeneity in long standing European agricultural policies. An application to the European geographical indication policy", "date": "2020", "keywords": "agricultural; analysis; certification; covariates; effect; effect heterogeneity; estimator; european; farm; group; heterogeneity; impact; pdo; policy; time; time treatment; treatment; treatment effect", "summary": "This suggests that treatment effect heterogeneity is likely a concern when assessing the impact of GI-type policies. Technical literature warns about the possibility that this eventuality may occur in contexts characterized by a differed administration of the treatment and by the continuation of the treatment over multiple periods, and attrib- utes this fact to the possible occurrence of negative weights in the construction of the TWFE estimate (Abraham and Sun, 2018; Borusyak and Jaravel, 2017; de Chaisemar- tin and D\u2019Haultfoeuille, 2019) when treatment effect heterogeneity is at stake.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8888", "words": "9577", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Maietta, Ornella Wanda ; De Devitiis, Biagia; Destefanis, Sergio; Suppa, Domenico", "title": "Human capital and rural development policy: evidence from European FADN regions", "date": "2020", "keywords": "agriculture; analysis; capital; data; development; european; family; farm; growth; human; index; input; journal; labour; payments; policy; prices; productivity; shadow", "summary": "The evolution of human capital in EU agriculture and the CAP Table 1 reports the percentage of farmers with full agricultural training, our proxy for high human capital, as calculated from Farm Structure Survey (FSS) data, as well as the per- centage of the population aged 15 to 64 years with tertiary education, as calculated from Eurostat data. Switching to the results that include the facet analysis for strongly efficient units, we find that the marginal rate of substitution for family labour with a low level of human capital is basically constant, whereas the marginal rates for the other categories of family labour show a gently rising trend (on average, high human capital is slightly more priced that medium human capital).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8892", "words": "7047", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Layani, Ghasem ; Bakhshoodeh, Mohammad ; Aghabeygi, Mona; Kurstal , Yaprak ; Viaggi , Davide ", "title": "The impact of food price shocks on poverty and vulnerability of urban households in Iran", "date": "2020", "keywords": "changes; demand; expenditure; food; food price; households; line; percent; poverty; price; urban; vulnerability; welfare", "summary": "The strengths of this study compared to other research include: (i) using Quadratic system of the equation which is more flexible than other demand functions, (ii) calculat- ing welfare changes simultaneously with food price changes, (iii) calculating vulnerability index, (iv) calculating second poverty line due to simultaneous changes in food prices and (v) assessing the increase of food prices simultaneously on food poverty of rural households. After increasing food prices, based on the poverty line, 41% of urban households were observed to be below the poverty line and the number of poor households increased by 10.63%.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8927", "words": "11930", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Cerroni, Simone; Watson, Verity; Macdiarmid, Jennie I.", "title": "Consumers\u2019 rationality and home-grown values for healthy and environmentally sustainable food", "date": "2020", "keywords": "behavior; bids; carbon; choice; dce; demand; food; footprint; home; lasagne; model; price; rationality; spva; subjects; value", "summary": "Sub- jects who behave irrationally have higher home-grown values than rational subjects in the second-price Vickrey auction. Rational subjects are those who con- sistently make demand revealing choices (DCE) or submit demand revealing bids (SPVA) in the IV experiments.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8928", "words": "12779", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Bartl, Anna Lina", "title": "The wellbeing of smallholder coffee farmers in the Mount Elgon region: a quantitative analysis of a rural community in Eastern Uganda", "date": "2020", "keywords": "coffee; counties; elgon; factor; farmers; hhs; indicators; land; mount; region; research; results; sub; trust; uganda; wellbeing", "summary": "The findings from these hypotheses regarding the compo- sition of wellbeing and the dependencies between wellbeing indicators provide a sound basis for policy recommendations. However, only a few research projects have investigated the wellbeing of coffee farmers to date.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8929", "words": "9683", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Osabohien, Romanus; Osabuohien, Evans; Ohalete, Precious", "title": "Agricultural Sector Performance, Institutional Framework and Food Security in Nigeria", "date": "2020", "keywords": "agriculture; development; food; food security; framework; governance; government; journal; nigeria; number; osabohien; people; population; production; run; sector; security; study; variables", "summary": "Food and Agricultural Organization-FAO (2011) report, \u2018Food security governance\u2019 relates to the \u2018formal and informal\u2019 rules and processes through which interests are expressed, and decisions which are germane to food security in a country are prepared, implemented and enforced on behalf of members of society. Food security is used as the dependent variable proxied by the number of the people undernourished under the stability dimension; agricultural sector performance and institutional framework as the independent variables, while population is a con- trol variable.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8930", "words": "15535", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Vollaro, Michele; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Innovation adoption and farm profitability: what role for research and information sources?", "date": "2020", "keywords": "choice; data; economic; farm; farmers; increase; information; innovation; innovation adoption; knowledge; models; performance; process; production; profitability; research; results; role; sources; specialisation; terms; variables", "summary": "The results indicate that structural factors and farm specialisation still play a relevant role in innovation adoption. The paper also highlights the need for fur- ther research about farms\u2019 proactivity in searching for and selecting information dur- ing the process of innovation adoption and competitive advantages in terms of profit- ability components.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-8931", "words": "11657", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Ahiale, Evelyn Delali; Balcombe, Kelvin; Srinivasan, Chittur", "title": "Determinants of Farm Households\u2019 Willingness to Accept (WTA) Compensation for Conservation Technologies in Northern Ghana", "date": "2020", "keywords": "accept; adoption; bunds; compensation; conservation; degradation; environmental; erosion; et al; farm; farmers; ghana; hectare; household; land; northern; soil; stone; upper; willingness; wta", "summary": "Inter- ventions like adoption of soil and stone bund by farm households that lead, for example, to reduction in soil erosion apparently change the welfare of different members of the society. For this study, the WTP or WTA indicates how the adoption of stone and soil bund impact on the welfare of participating farm households.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9017", "words": "14883", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Vergamini, Daniele; Bartolini, Fabio; Brunori, Gianluca", "title": "Wine after the pandemic? All the doubts in a glass", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bio; changes; consumption; covid-19; crisis; economics; future; impact; increase; market; pandemic; policy; producers; production; quality; regional; sector; strategies; support; term; trade; vergamini; wine; wineries; workshop; world", "summary": "While the full recovery is still uncertain, and even worse scenarios are possible if it takes longer to recover trust and financial stability on wine markets, the crisis risks to jeopardies recent developments and sustainability in wine territories. -ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-9017 Daniele Vergamini, Fabio Bartolini, Gianluca Brunori ANNEX 1 SUFISA Regional Workshop: \u201cLong-term future sce- narios of wine markets between opportunities and risks: what will be the strategic choices of Tuscan wineries\u201d a) Objectives of participatory scenario workshop The participatory workshop was the final task of the SUFISA activities for WP4 \u201cScenarios & Solutions\u201d car- ried out by the University of Pisa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9329", "words": "13900", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Bonfiglio, Andrea; Arzeni, Andrea", "title": "Spatial distribution of organic farms and territorial context: An application to an Italian rural region", "date": "2020", "keywords": "andrea; areas; cell; data; distribution; et al; farmers; farming; farms; land; marche; model; number; organic; poisson; policy; population; region; regression; spatial; use", "summary": "\u00a9 Firenze University Press ISSN 2280-6172 (online) www.fupress.com/bae Full Research Article DOI: 10.13128/bae-9329 Spatial distribution of organic farms and territorial context: An application to an Italian rural region AndreA Bonfiglio*, AndreA Arzeni Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, CREA \u2013 Council for Agricultural Research and Eco- nomics, Italy Abstract. This paper analyses possible determinants of the spatial distribution of organic farms in a rural region of Italy, characterised by several environmental issues.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9429", "words": "12154", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Vaquero-Pi\u00f1eiro, Cristina", "title": "The long-term fortunes of territories as a route for agri-food policies: evidence from Geographical Indications", "date": "2021", "keywords": "agri; areas; development; economic; effects; european; factors; food; gis; indications; municipalities; pdo; pdos; policies; policy; production; regions; rural; socio; territories; wine", "summary": "The results contribute to better understanding why some territories fail while others thrive in converting local food systems in levers of local economy. 8 A vibrant literature employs population, employment and income data as a measure of economic development. of GIs food, around 3 million euros.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9447", "words": "7967", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Macedo, Anthony; Rebelo, Jo\u00e3o; Gouveia, Sofia", "title": "Export propensity and intensity in the wine industry: a fractional econometric approach", "date": "2020", "keywords": "countries; country; economics; effect; export; market; model; production; propensity; trade; wine", "summary": "McCallum 1995; Ander- son and van Wincoop 2003; Silva and Tenreyro 2006; Anderson and Yotov 2012; Cirera et al. 2016), the covariates that could influence the wine market share are: geographic distance be- tween countries i and j (distij); GDP per capita of importer j in year t (gdppcjt); wine produced in countries i and j in year t-1 (respectively, prodit-1 and prodjt-1); exporter i being an Old World country (oldi); the annual average exchange rate between the currencies of countries i and j in year t (erijt); importer j\u2019s European Union (EU) membership status in year t (eujt); the existence in year t of regional trade agreements (RTA) between countries i and j (rtaijt); the same official lan- guage in countries i and j (langij); and countries i and j sharing common religion beliefs (religij).2 As regards the expected sign of the explanatory variables, distance should have a negative effect on the probability of wine trade and on market shares as this is a proxy for transport costs. Exporting countries from the Old World may also present some advantage in wine trade due to their experience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9448", "words": "6503", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Moreno-Miranda, Carlos; Palacios, Hipatia; Rama, Daniele", "title": "Small-holders perception of sustainability and chain coordination: evidence from Arriba PDO Cocoa in Western Ecuador", "date": "2020", "keywords": "actors; arriba; cacao; ccn-51; chain; cocoa; coordination; ecuador; level; market; pdo; performance; producers; production; socio; sustainability; usd", "summary": "Likewise, differences in monthly income pointed out a drawback for Arriba cocoa PDO producers. Matrix of extracted components from PCA analysis of Arriba cocoa producers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9534", "words": "17096", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Sotiropoulou, Irene; Deutz, Pauline", "title": "Understanding the bioeconomy: a new sustainability economy in British and European public discourse", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bioeconomy; birch; commission; development; discourse; economic; economies; environmental; et al; european; food; green; journal; knowledge; new; oecd; paper; policy; production; report; research; resources; sustainability; technology; term; use", "summary": "We have argued, though, that bioeconomy policy and theory does not engage prominently with sustainability debates \u2013 leaving the outcome of expanding the use of bio-resources as uncertain. The central aims and economic scope of the vari- ous types of sustainable economies are shown in Table 4, along with key policy documents and references to the related academic literature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9545", "words": "9051", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Zucaro, Raffaella; Manganiello, Veronica; Lorenzetti, Romina; Ferrigno, Marianna", "title": "Application of Multi-Criteria Analysis selecting the most effective Climate change adaptation measures and investments in the Italian context", "date": "2021", "keywords": "adaptation; analysis; change; climate; committee; criteria; decision; effectiveness; investments; management; mca; multi; objectives; priority; project; sensitivity; technical; water; weight", "summary": "They were of equal importance and were followed by water resource use, project objective, 115Application of Multi-Criteria Analysis selecting the most effective Climate change adaptation measures and investments in the Italian context Bio-based and Applied Economics 10(2): 109-122, 2021 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-9545 catchment area, and project effectiveness, each with a weight of 3. This work aims to demonstrate the usefulness of MCA in addressing crucial environmental issues, such as the use of water resources for agri- cultural and food production.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9552", "words": "9520", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Cesaro, Luca; Giampaolo, Antonio; Giar\u00e8, Francesca; Sardone, Roberta; Scardera, Alfonso; Vigan\u00f2, Laura", "title": "Italian farms during the COVID-19 pandemic: main problems and future perspectives. A direct analysis through the italian FADN", "date": "2022", "keywords": "2020; activities; covid-19; data; doi; economics; european; fadn; farms; food; future; issn; pandemic; problems; production; questionnaire; sample; services; survey", "summary": "However, the need to investigate the problems faced by Italian agricultural farms and related solutions has been highlighted by many institutional and non-institu- tional actors, such as government authorities, profession- al organizations, and associations. After the first lockdown in March 2020, some buffer measures at EU and national level, through State Aids and a more extensive use of CAP resources, were acti- vated to mitigate the liquidity crisis faced by the Italian farms during the phase of more severe restrictions and afterwards (CREA, 2020d), also detected through the survey addressed to FADN farms of May 2020.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9676", "words": "8048", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Lamonaca, Emilia; Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Seccia, Antonio", "title": "Climate changes and new productive dynamics in the global wine sector", "date": "2021", "keywords": "acreage; change; climate; economics; effects; grapevines; level; new; precipitation; producers; summer; temperature; wine; world; world producers; yield", "summary": "Climate change has the potential to impact the agricultural sector and the wine sector in particular. The impacts of climate change are likely to differ across pro- ducing regions of wine.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9678", "words": "11221", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Raina, Nidhi; Zavalloni, Matteo; Targetti, Stefano; D'Alberto, Riccardo; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "A systematic review of attributes used in choice experiments for agri-environmental contracts", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aes; agri; attributes; choice; compensation; conservation; contract; economics; environmental; et al; farmers; flexibility; participation; policy; preferences; review; studies; study; use", "summary": "Contract attributes are strong motivators for eliciting farmers\u2019 preferences for a particular agri-environmental scheme. Keywords: choice experiment, agri-environmental schemes, willingness to accept, contract attributes, systematic literature review JEL codes: Q15, Q20, Q57.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9746", "words": "11541", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Geoghegan, Cathal; Kinsella, Anne; O'Donoghue, Cathal", "title": "The effect of farmer attitudes on openness to land transactions: evidence for Ireland", "date": "2021", "keywords": "attitudes; cattle; doi; economics; farmers; farming; income; ireland; irish; land; land mobility; lease; leasing; market; mobility; policy; transactions", "summary": "Mean scores Percentage completely agreeing It is important not to leave farm land idle 1.50 55.4 It is important for me to pass on my land in as good a shape or better than I received it 1.46 53.4 I enjoy farming much more than I would other potential sources of employment 1.32 48.1 Farming is a more rewarding job in terms of quality of life, independence and lifestyle than it is in terms of money 1.20 44.6 0.1252 0.7124 0.1445 0.1457 It is important not to be afraid of adopting new farming practices 0.1569 0.7693 0.0685 0.0285 It is important not to leave farm land idle 0.6557 0.3514 0.0997 0.0135 I don\u2019t think it is a good idea to take too many risks when it comes to farming 0.2029 0.0144 0.1156 0.6099 Initial eigenvalues 2.29 2.23", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9748", "words": "4184", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Mann, Stefan", "title": "Competitiveness of cattle breeding in Switzerland: the value of policies enabling informed decisions", "date": "2020", "keywords": "breeding; case; cattle; competitiveness; economics; good; information; mann; market; public; swiss; switzerland", "summary": "On the one hand, the government abandoned the monopoly on bull sperm, on the other it provided incentives to generate and use genetic information . Translating this phenomenon into information economics, outsiders may sometimes have better ways of covering demands than actors from within the system, which is important information that should be spread.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9753", "words": "6324", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Sobczak, Wioleta; Go\u0142\u0119biewski, Jaros\u0142aw", "title": "Price dependence of biofuels and agricultural products on selected examples", "date": "2022", "keywords": "biodiesel; biofuels; economics; energy; ethanol; food; granger; markets; prices; production; rapeseed; use", "summary": "The price interdependencies between the food and biofuel market have therefore become an ongoing subject of discussion among energy, environmental and agricultural economists interested in the sustainabil- ity of biofuels (Kristoufek, 2012, Oladosu and Msangi, 2013, Kurowska et al. 2020). As a result, the issue of price transmission between agricultural markets and biofuel markets becomes relevant from the perspective of political economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9909", "words": "9944", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Sampalean, Niculina Iudita; Rama, Daniele; Visentin, Giulio", "title": "An investigation into Italian consumers\u2019 awareness, perception, knowledge of European Union quality certifications, and consumption of agri-food products carrying those certifications", "date": "2021", "keywords": "awareness; certifications; cluster; consumers; economics; european; examples; food; knowledge; organic; origin; pdo; pgi; products; quality; respondents; tsg", "summary": "Items Components Product\u2019 composition and characteristics Product\u2019 origin EU quality certifications Product\u2019 visual presentation Product law and hygienic compliance Product price and brand Nutritional characteristics 0.746 Ingredients 0.639 SustProd techniques 0.595 Label information 0.556 Producers\u2019 experience 0.540 Biological mark (Organic) 0.526 Organoleptic characteristics 0.525 Country of origin 0.786 Frequency of buying 0.728 Local raw materials 0.629 Pride EU marks 0.546 Producer information 0.519 PDO trademark 0.713 TSG trademark 0.604 Support for local production 0.476 Appeal, conservation 0.788 Food aspect 0.779 Expiry date 0.612 Absence of UW chemicals 0.733 Law compliance 0.725 Hygiene standards 0.577 CC Production sites 0.431 Cost, expensiveness of EU trademarks 0.790 Popularity, brand 0.592 Explained variance, % 24.942 9.315 6.807 5.972 4.985 4.295 Cumulative variance, % 24.942 34.257 41.064 47.036 52.020 56.315 * -ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-9909 An investigation into Italian consumers\u2019 awareness, perception, knowledge of European Union quality certifications 3.4 Perception, attitudes towards quality food products and purchasing habits In relation to the questions in the second section (Appendix, Table 2)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9928", "words": "10824", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Vollaro, Michele; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide", "title": "Public R&D and European agriculture: impact on productivity and return on R&D expenditure", "date": "2021", "keywords": "agriculture; countries; data; economics; et al; european; expenditure; impact; investments; productivity; public; r&d; research; results; ror; tfp", "summary": "The use of the alternative source, GBAORD data, as an indica- tor (or measure) of agricultural R&D investment may hold only under the condition of considering solely public R&D investments, provided that GBAORD can represent a reliable proxy of GERD public R&D expenditures. This paper seeks to assess the economic impact of public agricultural R&D investments in Europe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9932", "words": "8332", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lopolito, Antonio; Barbuto, Angela; Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano", "title": "The role of network characteristics of the innovation spreaders in agriculture", "date": "2022", "keywords": "adopters; adoption; agriculture; bio; characteristics; diffusion; economics; farmers; information; innovation; model; network; node; rate; spreaders", "summary": "Adoption rate (DIF) Speed (SPE) Magnitude (MAG) coefficients \u03c3 p-value coefficients \u03c3 p-value coefficients \u03c3 p-value const 0,339 0,372 0,364 0,611 1,102 0,581 0,276 0,243 0,259 EDU 0,017 0,012 0,165 -0,031 0,035 0,380 -0,006 0,008 0,479 MAS -0,008 0,009 0,406 0,019 0,027 0,479 -0,005 0,006 0,436 EXP -0,007 0,010 0,502 0,045 0,030 0,137 0,004 0,007 0,581 AGE 0,000 0,001 0,857 0,000 0,003 0,905 0,000 0,001 0,751 SIZE 0,000 0,000 0,944 0,000 0,000 0,620 0,000 0,000 0,943 EMP 0,000 0,001 0,611 0,002 0,002 0,424 0,001 0,001 0,127 DEG -0,005 0,008 0,528 0,021 0,025 0,403 0,001 0,005 0,846 BET 0,000 0,000 0,593 -0,001 0,001 0,187 0,000 0,000 0,447 CLO -0,022 0,022 0,313 0,083 0,065 0,203 0,007 0,014 0,628 ARD 0,018 0,026 0,475 -0,082 0,076 0,282 -0,010 0,017 0,546 EIG 1,698 0,698 0,017** 0,248 2,069 0,905 1,504 0,456 0,001*** LCC -0,100 0,047 0,034** 0,003 0,138 0,980 -0,079 0,030 0,011** R-quadro 0,450 0,106 0,553 229The role of network characteristics of the innovation spreaders in agriculture Bio-based and Applied Economics 11(3): 219-230, 2022 | e-ISSN 2280-6172 | DOI: 10.36253/bae-9932 REFERENCES Alkemade F. and Castaldi C. 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This highlights a very important aspect of culture as relat- ed with food and probably of the future of food systems, which is their growing embedding in social systems that are geographically organised in connection with ecosystems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "bae-9992", "words": "9150", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Kehinde, Mojisola O.; Shittu, Adebayo M.; Ogunnaike, Maria G.; Oyawole, Funminiyi P.; Fapojuwo, Oluwakemi E.", "title": "Land tenure and property rights, and the impacts on adoption of climate-smart practices among smallholder farmers in selected agro-ecologies in Nigeria", "date": "2022", "keywords": "adoption; agricultural; agroforestry; climate; crop; csps; economics; et al; farmers; land; minimum; nigeria; practices; rights; rotation; tenure; tillage", "summary": "Thus, the observed outcome of CSPs adoption can be modelled following a random utility-based estimation framework. 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