A common finding in agricultural policy analysis is that agricultural policies fail to achieve their main objective of farm income support efficiently. Here it is argued that this might be the case because beside the explicit goal of supporting farm income government also pursues the implicit policy objective of supporting agribusiness. In particular, it is shown for the Austrian bread grains m...

Based on survey data collected on a sample of 500 Italian consumers, this paper evaluates the consumer's attitude towards foods obtained from the application of biotechnologies and foods labeled as " GM free ". Results from the application of probit models shows that the probability to purchase GM products is lower for individuals more adverse to risk, older, with higher education and less conf...

Willingness to pay (WTP) estimates for novel products are needed to assess consumers’ valuation of these products as well as for product adoption and optimal pricing strategies. Using experiments in a retail setting, we compare hypothetical and non-hypothetical WTP values between a Becker-DeGroot-Marshak (BDM) auction mechanism and conjoint analysis. Our results suggest that the auction WTP val...

1. The public sector dominates Lesotho‘s agricultural sector. The public sector provides strategic direction for agriculture; chooses appropriate technologies; provides almost all of the capital used in the sector and assumes most of the risk associated with sector performance. The public sector treats farming per se as one among many ―Marginal Livelihood Strategies‖ available to poor farmers r...

This study aimed to identify factors affecting the dairy agribusiness, develop mapping for agribusiness development and determine its strategy improvement. Action research was undertaken followed by descriptive quantitative statistics analysis present current condition of business. Potency constrains farming were identified using SWOT analysis. LQ (Location Quotient) series focus group discussi...

Science and technology parks have been a major driver of both the commercialization of agricultural innovation and the financial success of many farm and agribusiness firms. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to explain the factors affecting commercialization of agricultural innovation in Kermanshah Science and Technology Park. The experts of this center were sampled by the census me...