This paper contains my personal reflections as scientific and technology section of the Australian Farm Business and F Journal, i.e. AFBM Journal. It is the aim of this paper to highlight framework of opportunities for authors in the broad area of lives The message within the description of current economic, marketin for farming is that only a limited proportion (about 20%) of the farm opportun...

We study risk and return on farm and non-farm business enterprises in village economies. A risk-sharing benchmark predicts that only aggregate covariate risk contributes to the risk premium. An autarky benchmark predicts that overall fluctuation, idiosyncratic plus aggregate, is the only concern. Empirical findings from semi-urban and rural Thai households with extensive family networks quantif...

This article examines the business choices made by independent family farmers, when confronting the need to diversify away from traditional agricultural activities by starting farm-based tourism businesses. Based on interviews with farmers and drawing upon the concept of authenticity, the article explores the farmer’s conceptions of self and identity. In so doing, it addresses the dilemmas faci...

Planning of wind farms appears to be a complicated matter in Switzerland and all over Europe, causing growing government and business frustration. The implementation often fails on the local level when it comes to choosing a suitable location for a wind farm, although the public generally supports wind power (DEVINE-WRIGHT 2005, WOLSINK, 2005). Social acceptance is a key issue for successful wi...

In order to assess the technical and economic efficiency of conventional farm businesses a variety of management techniques have been developed. These include gross and net margin analysis and full cost accounting. This paper reviews their effectiveness in organic farming systems and finds that all of the techniques can be useful in helping to assess the economic efficiency of individual enterp...

The 3D Object MEdiator (3DOME ) offers two services for handling 3D models: a modelshop and a renderfarm. These services can be consulted through the Internet. The modelshop meets the demands for brokerage of geometric descriptions of 3D models. People who create geometric models of objects can supply their models to the modelshop and 3DOME will offer them to potential customers. People who nee...