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In the short span of two decades, the Campo de Dalias, one of the less-endowed agricultural regions of Spain, became one of the most intensive, productive and profitable areas. However, during the last decades, the mushrooming of irrigated agric[...]Article
G. Quaranta ; R. Salvia |In many regions peasant farm households are disappearing under socio-economic forces, their destine is either to become landless or holdings, but in Southern Europe more often they are relatively stable or became part-time farms. Great importanc[...]Article
The experiences of transition to date confirmed that there is no one solution for the different realities in East Central Europe. Transition, affecting all economic sectors and all segments of population, implied adjustment crisis for agricultur[...]Article
This paper examines the rural household and its employment, the new trends involved in this issue as well as proposes measures for a balanced relationship focusing its interest on a geographical region, the Messini province. Within the limits of[...]Article
J. Peri ; F. Jacquet |The international economic relation system is presently undergoing a period of great change. From January the 1st 1997 until 2010 the co-operation between the European Union and the Mediterranean Third Countries has been following the directions[...]Article
This paper examines how diversified firms operated in competitive markets -like the food markets- characterised by a high risk can allocate their fixed expenses in order to increase profitability and to reduce business risk. After an extensive s[...]Article
B. Dhehibi ; J.M. Gil |This paper provides an analysis of red meat, poultry and fish demand in Tunisia using multi-equational econometric systems with time series data. Different dynamic versions of the GADS (Generalized Addilog Demand System) are specified and estima[...]Article
In this paper an attempt is made to present the economics of pig farming based on the reproductive data of 11,270 sows from 42 pig farms and three Research Stations of Animal Husbandry and the physical and economic data of 18 modern and well org[...]Article
This paper reports the results from a case-study around the environmental economic value provided by afforested areas with distinct management objectives. The application sheds light on some of the problems in considering the non-market output a[...]Article
Transgenic crops have proven to be tremendously popular with farmers of the New World, mainly due to short term financial and commercial gains. The recent scientific indications of the possible effect of transgenic crop characters are far from e[...]Article
V. Boatto ; L. Rossetto |Recently, Mediterranean lagoon environment, mainly in the North Adriatic area, has been threatened by the overexploitation of fishery. Fishing has been rapidly growing since clam culture has spread over several lagoons. Fishing growth has been a[...]Article
P. Platis ; D. Trakolis ; I. Meliadis |The rangelands of the mountains Voras and Tzena, in N. Greece, have been inventoried with the use of orthophotomas and Gegraphic Information Systems. The classification criterion used was the dominant vegetation. Each inventory unit was classifi[...]Article
The area of Chadwick Lakes is one of the best landscapes and environments in Malta. This paper describes the general characteristics of the project of the hydraulic management and environmental restoration of Wied il-Qlejgha, a watercourse that [...]Article
Fondamentale pour la compréhension de la ressource sol, la pédologie est appelée à retrouver son rôle. Elle doit accepter le défi d'un dialogue avec les utilisateurs/bénéficiaires et avec les autres professionnels concernés. Ceci implique que, s[...]Article
This paper illustrates the growth and the present situation of the market for organic food in Italy. It is based on a large number of surveys and investigations, partly made by the Authors and partly made by other researchers during the last 10 [...]Article
Data Envelopment Analysis is an operational research procedure aimed at measuring the relative efficiency of production units mainly in the non-market sectors of the economy. This procedure is applied in agriculture and specifically in the dairy[...]Article
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H.E. Chebbi ; J.M. Gjl |L'objet de cet article est d'analyser l'évolution et la compétitivité structurelle du commerce agroalimentaire tunisien en relation avec les marchés de l'Union Européenne (UE) et de l'Union du Maghreb Arabe (UMA) et présenter les faits dominants[...]Article
The origins and evolution of common property rights (CPR) farms in Italian agriculture are briefly explained. Most of CPR farms were established during the Middle Ages and were later considered an obstacle for modernization. During and after the[...]Article
A well-designed reform of the Russian tax system will be one of the decisive factors for a successful transition process. The sectorial performance and development of the agro-food sector will be strongly influenced by these policies. We describ[...]Article
M. Benderradji ; D. Alatou ; K. Tir |L'analyse et l'expression des facteurs climatiques et bioclimatiques à l'origine des formations végétales et forestières dans l'extrême Nord-est Algérien nous ont permis d'identifier l'étagement de la végétation. Les coupes de végétation ainsi q[...]Article
Le présent article analyse le développement rural intégré en Tunisie dans une optique de développement durable. Sur la base des résultats enregistrés plusieurs insuffisances de planification et de réalisation au niveau individuel et zonal ont ét[...]Article
ISO 9000 and other quality control systems have been implemented in many European countries. Many European food processor and distributors are requesting their supplies to be ISO certified to ensure the safety of supplied products. This paper in[...]Article
The debate on the rural/urban dichotomy results in various definitions of what is rural or not. The necessity to define rurality is an important one for shaping development policies that have long term consequences for both rural and urban areas[...]Article
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Organic products and hygiene foods appear to be a new perspective for Greek agriculture and market. Considering that Greece has a comparative advantage of producing these type of food, organic farming arises as a promising alternative. However, [...]Article
Since the early 1990s, organic agriculture in Greece has gained considerable momentum. However, the sector is, still at an early state of development: its institutional framework is far from being consolidated; organic policy is confined to a ty[...]Article
M'B. Ben Naceur ; M. Naily ; M. Selmi |Ce travail met en lumière l'effet d'un déficit hydrique, imposé à différents stades de développement du blé, sur l'humidité du sol, sur les différents processus biologiques de la plante et sur les composantes du rendement. Il montre que le suivi[...]Article
A. Marouani ; M. Gharbi |L'analyse statistique de la production régionale des céréales et des rendements du blé dur, du blé tendre et de l'orge en relation avec les pluies saisonnières et annuelles sur une période de 20 années (1976-1996) dans le Nord de la Tunisie mont[...]Article
In the Mediterranean countries private farmers, who also are the owners, manage the largest portion of the land. As is well known their behaviour strongly influence the healthy of the soils and the rural environmental in general. In fact in the [...]