47th Annual Conference, Weihenstephan, Germany, September 26-28, 2007

The objectives of our project were the development of a model for estimating the working time requirement of all Austrian farms. A guideline was to calculate the working [...]

Die Landwirtschaft kann durch die Produktion von Biomasse einen positiven Beitrag zu den nationalen Klimaschutzzielen leisten. Eine Analyse mit dem ökonomisch-ökologisc [...]

Environmental goals play a crucial role in the economic assessment of bio-energy production, particularly in countries where the agricultural sector is less competitive. [...]

This paper attempts to quantitatively measure the change in the productivity of Danish organic farming in recent years. Based on a translog production front [...]

The influence of farming collectives on income per annual work unit (AWU) is investigated by means of regressions for three types of farms with animal husbandry. The effe [...]

Building on available theory, this work uses controlled laboratory experiments to investigate the budgetary and the economic performance of competitive tenders for alloca [...]

Vogelgrippe löste im Februar 2006 eine immense Welle von Medienberichten aus. Wie wurden Berichterstattung und politische Maßnahmen wahrgenommen? Eine Meinungsumfrage u [...]

Owners of family farms are usually overburdened by their involvement in both the production process and in the management of their farm. Problems arise especially in the [...]

Agent-based models have recently become very popular. However, it is often difficult to communicate the models' complexity and assumptions. Hence, criticising them become [...]

Die große Sortiments- und Begriffsvielfalt, die eine Besonderheit des Produktes Wein darstellen, führen für den Konsumenten beim Kauf zu einer äußerst komplexen und [...]