CAP subsidies and productivity of the EU farms Marian Rizov, Jan Pokrivcak and Pavel Ciaian 1 [Original submitted June 2012, Revision received March 2013, Accepted May 2013] Abstract The paper investigates the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies on farm total factor productivity (TFP) in the European Union (EU). We employ a structural semiparametric estimation algorithm dir...

The environment affects agriculture, via soils, weather, etc. and agriculture affects the environment locally at farm level and via its impact on climate change. Locating agriculture within its spatial environment is thus important for farmers and policy makers. Within the EU countries collect detailed farm data to understand the technical and financial performance of farms; the Farm Accountanc...

Nine years has passed since the EU accession, thus, it is possible to make an objective evaluation about the impacts of the accession. Several reviews were made in this topic, but most of them made their assessment at macroeconomic level. This research focuses on the impacts of accession at farm level, using the data of the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) database. The main goals of thi...

Abstract Agricultural policymakers call for the operationalisation of farm resilience as a dynamic concept. Therefore, we quantify along dimensions robustness, adaptation and transformation. Using rich Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data set, explore which farm(er) characteristics affect resilience. We employ control function approach to address presence endogeneity in correlated random ef...

Opportunities to make sequential decisions and adjust activities as a season progresses and more information becomes available characterise the farm management process. In this paper, we present a discrete stochastic two-stage utility efficient programming model of organic dairy farms, which includes risk aversion in the decision maker’s objective function as well as both embedded risk (stochas...

Indicators are used to quantify the pressure of pesticides on the environment. Pesticide risk indicators typically require weighting environmental exposure by a no effect concentration. An indicator based on spread equivalents (ΣSeq) is used in environmental policy in Flanders (Belgium). The pesticide risk for aquatic life is estimated by weighting active ingredient usage by the ratio of their ...