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{"title":"Women's Cooperatives in less favored and mountainous areas under economic instability","authors":"F. Chatzitheodoridis, A. Kontogeorgos, Petroula Liltsi, Ioanna Apostolidou, A. Michailidis, E. Loizou","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.262883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.262883","url":null,"abstract":"Rural development policies in the last twenty years reinforced the development of new, alternative to agriculture, activities in the mountainous and less favored areas, such as agro tourism and small scale processing husbandries. In this context, a significant increase in the number of women's cooperatives founded in Greece was observed, aiming the improvement of women's position in small communities. This type of cooperatives, offers to women the opportunity for a supplementary income apart from their household engagements and activities in family farms. In the current study the role of such small scale women's cooperatives from the mountainous region of Florina area in orthern Greece is examined, along with their response in periods with economic instability. The survey performed showed that the cooperatives face viability problems, mainly due to the effects of the economic instability and the lack of new members. At the same time, a survey addressed to young people in the same area, indicated that young people have a positive attitude in participating in the activities of the cooperatives; though the cooperatives existence and activities were not well known in the area.","PeriodicalId":7541,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"63-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79811617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tariff Reforms in the Presence of Pollution","authors":"Nikolaos N. Vlassis","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.262438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.262438","url":null,"abstract":"Accepted date 8 May 2017 but publication date 2016 - Greek journal - no open access information available. Acknowledgments An earlier version of this paper was part of my PhD thesis conducted at the University of Exeter. I am grateful to the faculty of Economics, University of Exeter, for their support. Special thanks to Christos Kotsogiannis for introducing me to the issue of border tax adjustments and for his helpful comments and suggestions. I also thank Pascalis Raimondos Moller, Ben Zissimos and Michael Michael for their comments and suggestions as well as the participants in the ETSG 2013 and the Second Environmental Protection and Sustainability Forum: Towards Global Agreements on Environmental Protection and Sustainability 2015.","PeriodicalId":7541,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics Review","volume":"169 1","pages":"23-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75058402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Dynamic Analysis of Egyptian Orange Exports to Russia: A Co-integration Analysis","authors":"A. A. Hatab, Aimable Nsabimana","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.262439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.262439","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the determinants of Egyptian orange exports to Russia by apply- ing an autoregressive distributed lag approach to quarterly data covering the period 1996-2014. Our major findings indicate that i) A one percent increase in the Russian GDP would lead to an increase of about 3.7% in Egypt’s orange exports to Russia in the long run, ii) Egypt’s export price relative to the export prices of other competitors has a negative statistically significant influence on orange exports to Russia, and iii) unlike our expectations, trade liberalization efforts between Egypt and Russia have had a negative influence on orange exports to Russia.","PeriodicalId":7541,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics Review","volume":"128 1","pages":"38-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89690229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Technical Efficiency in the Agricultural Sector-Evidence from a Conditional Quantile - Based Approach","authors":"Sofia Kourtesi, K. Witte, Apostolos Polymeros","doi":"10.22004/ag.econ.262443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.262443","url":null,"abstract":"The tightening farm budget constraints due to the reduction of the agricultural public financing and the negative gap between the ag ricultural input and output prices should force farms to work as efficient as possible. This paper applies a fully nonparametric approach to estimate potential efficiency gains in the agricultural sector while account- ing for heterogeneity among farms. Using the ‘conditional α -quantile robust partial frontier technique’ we investigate the efficiency of agricultural enterprises specialized in cereals production. The data originate from the EU Farm Accounting Data etwork. The results indicate a considerable variability in terms of technical efficiency among farms. We find evidence that the owned to total land, the family to total labor, the irri- gation system, the region at which the farm is located and the year of observation have a statistically significant impact on productivity.","PeriodicalId":7541,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"100-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82910770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating trends of low sodium content in food: The willingness to pay for salt-reduced bread, a case study","authors":"G. Vita, M. D’Amico, A. Lombardi, B. Pecorino","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.262442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.262442","url":null,"abstract":"igh salt intake is an important health risk since its consumption is often strongly related to negative health effects. In light of this, and given the social and health costs linked to overconsumption of salt, this paper highlights the main factors related to the demand for foods that have a low sodium content. Our study aims to analyse in depth the preferences and attitudes of consumers towards food low in salt as well as assessing for the first time the willingness to pay (WTP) in order to determine whether consumers place a high value on sliced salt-reduced bread. The results show a fairly limited WTP for bread with a low sodium content, with the relevant values being calculated at 20% over the price of normal bread. This indica tes that consumers are positively interested in this kind of product but their willingness to pay more is rather limited.The findings of this study also support an argument for the fi rst time of the role played by the physical activity and physical characteristics of the sampled consumers, showing the importance of the body mass index in significantly influencing the individual WTP for low-salt bread.","PeriodicalId":7541,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"82-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80578564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Price Dependence and Asymmetric Responses between Coffee Varieties","authors":"A. Stavrakoudis, Dimitrios K. Panagiotou","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.262437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.262437","url":null,"abstract":"1.IntroductionCoffee is a drink brewed from the seeds of the Coffea genus.1 As a world commodity, coffee is second only to oil. Coffee is mainly produced by developing countries. A large part of the agricultural sector in these economies is involved in the production as well as in the industrial procession of coffee (Talbot, 2004). Economic policies and structural reforms of coffee production and trade are of major importance for many countries in Southern America, Africa and Southern Asia (Russell et al., 2012). Furthermore, political aspects of \"coffee policies\" are not to be ignored as well (Paige, 1997) since the commodity of coffee is mainly produced by politically unstable countries that suffered dictatorships and political mismanagement for years. On the other hand, coffee production is related to various environmental problems connected with deforestation and land misuse. Sustainable agricultural methods and environmental friendly production and procession might help farmers and workers in the coffee producing countries (Kilian et al., 2006).In 1989, the International Coffee Agreement (ICA) (Akiyama and Varangis, 1990; Ponte, 2002) broke down. As a result, market liberalization policies have allowed producing countries to abandon centralized planning of coffee production levels (Bacon et al., 2008). Hence, coffee production is not regulated by any state or international organization and one can claim that it is a free market regulated mainly by private interests. The market liberalization in several coffee producing countries allowed several researchers to test the Law of One Price (LOP) hypothesis. Under the LOP assumption it is expected that the commodity of coffee (or any other commodity market) is integrated enough to allow price co-movements without asymmetries. However, there is some evidence of the opposite fact. Ghoshray (2009) found evidence of asymmetries in price adjustment between different coffee milds.Coffee quality affects sensory preferences of coffee consumers (Walsh et al., 2011; Yoon and Park, 2012). There are four different coffee varieties: \"Colombian Arabicas milds\" (CO), 'Brazilian and other natural Arabicas\" (BN), 'Other mild Arabicas\" (RO) and Robustas (RO).2 The first three, namely Colombian, Brazilian and Others, are of the Arabicas quality. Arabicas coffee beans are considered to be of higher quality than Robustas. Figure 1 displays the main coffee producing countries.Coffee prices are strongly determined by the quality of coffee (Donnet et al., 2008; Wilson and Wilson, 2014) and have shown considerable volatility in the past. Coffee production is relatively sensitive to weather conditions while coffee consumption has relative inelastic demand. A recent research on this topic (Ubilava, 2012) has revealed that El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences coffee prices. Moreover, there is strong evidence that price dynamics have non-linear characteristics and there is evidence of asymmetries in price transmissi","PeriodicalId":7541,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics Review","volume":"90 1","pages":"5-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81512362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Innovation and the role of Social capital in nursery industry: the case of Sicilian micropropagation companies","authors":"G. Timpanaro, V. Foti","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.262433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.262433","url":null,"abstract":"he advent of technological innovation does not constitute a process confined to a particular territory or to a specific economic system, but represents a shared opportu- nity, cutting across all regions, sectors, and activities, that is destined to grow to meet the expectations of the modern consumer in terms of food safety, wholesomeness, qual- ity, certification, etc. It is in this context that the work places itself, exploring the role played by social capital in the diffusion of micropropagation in agriculture, an innova- tion able to shift productive chains upstream, particularly in the activities of the nursery industry. The paper demonstrates the influence of numerous relational variables on the success of this activity.","PeriodicalId":7541,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics Review","volume":"47 1","pages":"34-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86439937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethanol Production and Food Price: Simultaneous Estimation of Food Demand and Supply","authors":"Bree L. Dority, Frank Tenkorang","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.262436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.262436","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the impact of U.S. and Brazilian ethanol production on global food prices. Our analysis is based on a food demand and food supply simultaneous equation model. We control for the increased demand for food by developing countries, the de- preciation of the U.S. dollar, energy prices, and technological advancement in agricul- tural production. Based on our three-stage least squares results, the rapid expansion of ethanol production is unlikely to have been related to the high food prices experienced in the late 2000s. However, we find that world food prices are significantly impacted by energy prices.","PeriodicalId":7541,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"97-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86002178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Country of Origin Labeled Product in Istanbul","authors":"Asli Zuluğ, B. Miran, E. Tsakiridou","doi":"10.22004/ag.econ.253695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.253695","url":null,"abstract":"Consumers' interest in locally produced foods is growing over the last years. Thus, studying consumers' preferences for local foods and understanding the underlying causes of this demand increase and willingness to buy local food products could be conducive to further development of local food markets. Country-of-origin labeling (COOL) is being implemented in different forms and degrees in Turkey and other countries across the world. In this study we focused on two different COOL food products from Turkey, namely Ayvalik olive oil and Ezine cheese. A survey was undertaken in the area of Istanbul aimed at studying consumer preferences for those products compared to their conventional counterparts. The willingness to pay equation has been specified as a two-step decision process, taking into account the results obtained from the two consecutive questions, willingness to pay a premium and how much consumers are willing to pay. If the decision will be consuming COOL product, different demand models (Heckmann models) were estimated. For these products, for that purpose, different price sets were defined to the consumers to evaluate how much they will pay extra. In conclusion we found out that, consumers are aware of those products and willing to pay a price premium. For AyvalA±k Olive oil they are willing to pay 82 percentages more than conventional alternatives. For Ezine Cheese they are willing to pay a premium almost 4 times up to conventional cheese products.","PeriodicalId":7541,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics Review","volume":"75 1","pages":"5-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79692684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impacts of Soil Salinity on the Productivity of Al-Musayyeb Small Farms in Iraq: An Examination of Technical, Economic, and Allocative, Efficiency","authors":"B. Dhehibi, R. Telleria, A. Aw-Hassan, S. H. Mohamed, F. Ziadat, Weicheng Wu","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.253792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.253792","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the study was to investigate how smallholder farm communities could sustain economically viable agricultural production in the salt-affected areas of Al-Musayyeb in ‘Central Iraq’. It aims at opening a new dimension to farmers and policy makers on how to increase production in soil-affected areas by determining the extent to which it is possible to raise efficiency for salt-affected farmers with the existing resources base and available technology. There were 220 households, randomly stratified, interviewed based on severity of salinity indicators. The scores and determinants of technical efficiency (TE) and allocative efficiency (AE) were identified using stochastic frontier cost and production functions. Empirical findings show that the estimated AE of the farms in the Al-Musayyeb area varied in the range of 56–94%, with a mean of 59%. This suggests that the average farmer needs a cost-saving of 41% to attain the status of the most allocatively efficient farmer. Findings show that technical efficiency was in the range of 57–98%, with mean of 89%; and economic efficiency was 32–84%, with mean of 52%. These widely varying indices of efficiency among Al-Musayyeb farmers in a similar agro-ecological locality indicate great potential to achieve productivity growth through improved efficiency, using existing technologies and the available resource base in the study area. Results of the estimated coefficients indicated that family labor and land tenure are significantly and positively correlated with technical and allocative efficiencies, while off-farm income contributed to technical efficiencies. These results suggest that land tenure in this farming system and increased investment in extension services could jointly contribute to improved efficiency in in the studied area. Therefore, efforts directed to generation of new technologies should not be neglected.","PeriodicalId":7541,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics Review","volume":"29 1","pages":"42-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82636751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}