A multiple-market framework is developed to measure the size and distribution of research benefits. The model considers an upstream raw product market and a downstream finished product market and allows for imperfect competition in the intermediary food-processing sector. A central conceptual result is derived: an increase in raw product output is a sufficient condition for costreducing innovat...

— This paper analyses how coffee-producing households responded to the low coffee prices prevailing around 2003. We provide theory on differential responses in regions dedicated to coffee growing, compared to more diversified or better accessible regions. We show how labor market effects can explain why in the former regions value-adding activities (processing, certification) are undertaken whi...

This paper deals with the sources of total factor productivity (TFP), namely technical efficiency, scale and technological change, considering size agricultural producers using balanced panel data in period 2014–2018 drawn from Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) database for three sectors Czech agriculture – cereals, milk, beef. The investigation is based on stochastic frontier (SF) modelling...

The paper presents an assessment of the degree implementation environmental and climate protection functions by Polish farms agricultural enterprises different size production scale. There are differences in views on this topic literature, with opinions dominating more positive role small biodiversity protection. Farm analysis was made basis Statistics Poland data farm classes established land ...