Agricultural Policy

Jernej Turk

AgriculturalPolicy – Some Theoretical Considerations

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

This book considers a theory of agriculturalpolicy and its implications for decision making.

There exists a strong and instrumental bond between agricultural economics and agriculturalpolicy. Policy decision making can be as effective as long agricultural economics theory and the empirical modelling results derived support it. A bulk of various information sources related to farm policies can be traced in modern literature where discussions, however, rarely […]

Robert Celec (Ed.)

Studies of Environmental Issues Through the Prism of Integration into the Wider Environment

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

The scientific monograph, entitled „Studies of environmental issues through the prism of integration into the wider environment“, discusses various research views on environmental issues, which in their broad scope touch on various areas of our social activity. In the monograph it can be read about pollen, which is not only one of the most important particles of biological origin present in the air, but can also act as a pollutant in the air. [...]

Douglas MacKinnon / Martin Pavlovič

HOPONOMICS: Market analysis applied to the hop industry 1980–2020

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Hoponomics provides an unprecedented look into the hop industry between 1980 and 2020 and introduces the topic most taboo within the industry, how and why the market works the way it does.

With a half century of combined experience across varying segments of the industry, the authors analyze the inner workings of the industry from an economic perspective. The book begins with a cursory overview and brief history of the hop industry for the unfamiliar reader. As […]

David Yakubu Anambam

Added Value of Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Non-Traditional Export Products in the Agricultural Sector of Ghana

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Ghana just like most developing countries is facing the challenge of how to deal with high poverty rates coupled with declining prices of traditional export products. The export of non-traditional export products in the agricultural sector is considered as one of the strategies to address poverty. However, concerns are been raised about the free trade policy, stating that free trade may not necessarily be benefiting all participants equally. In other words, other nations, […]

Barbara Luise Heinrich

Strategien zur Verfolgung von Umweltzielen in der agrarischen Landnutzung

Agrarpolitische Maßnahmen und freiwillige Standards

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Das Werk behandelt zwei sehr unterschiedlichen Strategien, mit denen Umweltziele in der agrarischen Landnutzung verfolgt werden können. Zunächst wird das sogenannte Greening untersucht, worunter bestimmte Umweltauflagen in der 2013er-Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der Europäischen Union verstanden werden. Das Greening stellt keine einfachen Umweltauflagen in der Landwirtschaft dar, sondern koppelt diese an freiwillig zu beziehende Fördergelder. Dieses Setting erzeugt […]