Overview

While it is trivial to state that agriculture influences the rest of the rural economy and society, it is much less trivial to understand the difference that agricultural structures make to rural environments. As soon as agricultural structures switch from being the dependent to being the independent variable, they may have an impact on the profitability and sustainability of farming, on animal welfare, population development, unemployment or the gender situation. In fact, it would be surprising for most rural areas if domination by small subsistence farmers, by medium-size family farms or by large corporate farming did not make any difference to the rest of rural society. Not only is the diversity of agricultural structures in Europe impressive, but also the diversity of the contributions in this book. They range from technical modelling approaches to descriptive story-telling, from an in-depth analysis of regions to comparative studies of international differences and from normative considerations to positive observations. Altogether, they give an excellent overview of where research into agricultural structures stands today.

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Author:   Stefan Mann
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Edition:   illustrated edition
Weight:   0.882kg
ISBN:  

9781600211201

ISBN 10:   1600211208
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   13 June 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Factors of farm performance: an empirical analysis of structural and managerial characteristics; Linking Farm Efficiency with Farm Growth; The Simultaneous Evolution of Farm Size and Specialisation: Dynamic Panel Data Evidence from Israeli Farm Communities; Capacity Adjustments in German Hog Production; Path-dependent change in agricultural structure in two mountain areas in Switzerland -- a spatially explicit modelling approach; Modelling the Impact of Decoupling on Structural Change in the Farming Sector: integrating econometric and optimisation models; Linking Public and Private Management for Multifunctionality: On Farm Structures and Behavioural Aspects to Get Nature and Tourism; The Linkages between Location of Sunflower and Sugar Beet Production and Related Processing Industries; The Impact of Multifunctionality of Agriculture Policies on Sucker Cow Farms: a Comparison of Farm Structure in Kentucky (USA) and Burgundy (France); Economies of scale and optimal farm size in the Estonian dairy sector.; Flanders Vegetable Valley: an exemplary case of the influence of competitive networks on the developments in agriculture; Can Prosocial Behaviour Affect Efficiency and Structural Change? Evidence from Czech Agriculture; Endogenous investments and technological change in analysing impacts of agricultural policies on production and farm structure; Analysis of EU membership of turkey on Turkish agriculture: A sector model approach with maximum entropy; Index.

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