Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales - Agricultural and Resource Economics - Vol 03, No 6 (2003)

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Artículos

  • Gains from trade liberalization with imperfectly competitive world markets. A note
  • Strategies on innovation in agrifood multinationals
  • Analysis of European Union agriculture using Malmquist and intertemporal DEA
  • Assessing the European Union Emissions Trading Directive
  • Main factors explaining the participation of beef cattle farms from Navarra (Spain) in instruments aimed to products differentiation
  • Business strategies and exporting behavior of agro-food firms in Spain and Catalonia
  • Assessment of an alternative decoupled agricultural support scheme for cop crops: The case of irrigated farms in the Guadalquivir Valley


Reseñas

  • Reseña de libro Environmental Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control
  • Reseña de libro Los instrumentos económicos en la gestión del agua en la agricultura

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    Reseña de libro Los instrumentos económicos en la gestión del agua en la agricultura
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2003) Xabadia Palmada, Angels
    [EN] José Albiac Murillo, Editor científico Ediciones Mundi-Prensa, 2003.
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    Reseña de libro Environmental Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2003) Albiac Murillo, José
    [EN] Shortle, J. y Abler, D. (2001) CABI Publishing,Wallingford (Reino Unido), 224 págs.
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    Assessment of an alternative decoupled agricultural support scheme for cop crops: The case of irrigated farms in the Guadalquivir Valley
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2003) Arriaza, Manuel; Ruiz Avilés, Pedro; Gómez-Limón, José Antonio
    [EN] In this paper we compare the current CAP Reform with a more market-orientated policy which allows the substitution of COP for vegetables (including potatoes). In order to reproduce farmers’ decision-making process, we first group farmers by farm size into three categories and then elicit a general utility function for each group. The elicitation of the bi-attribute utility functions, based on observed crop land allocation, does not require interaction with the farmers. The validation of the model seems to justify the methodological approach. The results regarding the alternative scheme proposed suggest that, with the same EAGGF expenditure, small and medium-sized farms in this region would benefit from this alternative scheme in terms of higher expected total gross margin, flexibility and freedom of crop choice.
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    Business strategies and exporting behavior of agro-food firms in Spain and Catalonia
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2003) Ameur, Mehrez; Gil, José M.
    [EN] In an increasing globalized environment, the agrofood firms’ competitiveness becomes a strategic need for future survival. Recent changes both in agrofood markets and consumers’ habits have encouraged firms to adopt adequate managerial strategies. The objective of this paper is to determine main factors affecting the exporting behavior of the agro-food firms. Data come from the Survey on Firms Strategies (ESEE). To achieve this objective, a model has been specified and estimated taking into account the characteristics of the database. The personnel qualification, the existence of foreign capital, the existence of potential benefits in foreign market and the firm’ age are the main factors explaining the agrofood firm decision to export. On the other hand, variables denoting firm size and domestic market concentration and saturation are more important to explain export intensity.
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    Main factors explaining the participation of beef cattle farms from Navarra (Spain) in instruments aimed to products differentiation
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2003) Gómez Ramos, Almudena; Atance Muñiz, Ignacio; Iráizoz Apezteguía, Belén
    [EN] Beef cattle sector is readapting to increasing requirements from the demand, which looks for a differentiated product, with constant quality, in a market beginning to be dominated by great distribution companies. Mechanisms to differentiate production are been implemented in this context, co-ordinating both production and marketing processes and integrating livestock farmers into the commercial system. This paper study the relation between these mechanisms and the characteristics of the livestock systems, addressing the causes explaining the voluntary integration of farmers in them. The research area selected was the Comunidad Foral de Navarra due to the existence since more than ten years ago of the Protected Geographic Indication (PGI) «Ternera de Navarra», created to support and promote beef meat from Navarra. In addition to the PGI there also exist differentiation mechanisms represented by small private quality labels implemented by farmers. The development of a Logit model based on a survey to farmers has allowed to identify which are those variables with greater influence in the decision of integration into the PGI. Additionally, results show how this Indication is an important instrument to support some specific livestock systems trough the marketing and promotion of their production. So, the PGI can be considered as a rural development instrument that increased the added value of certain products in less favoured areas, while private labels focus on integrating greater and more intensive farms, more competitive and better adapted to market exigencies.