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New Medit, Economia e Finanza

New Medit 3/2022

Benmehaia’s paper analyzes the relationship between farm size and farm performance in Algeria. Two farming sectors are considered, namely: date palm sector and greenhouse vegetables sector. The study employs two farm performance measures, farmland productivity and land use intensity. The main findings show that the inverse relationship holds for a traditional agriculture and does not in a modernizing one. The consideration of the nature of the used technology in the underlying sector (i.e., its stage of development) is of crucial importance as a contingency factor in analyzing the inverse relationship for any farming
system ignored in most studies.
Bulut and Aslan try to understand the impact of increase in livestock support policies in Turkey. The results of the analysis revealed that support to livestock does not affect the number of livestock in the short term, but has a positive effect in the long run. Furthermore, both in the short and long term, the increase in prices in the livestock sector increases the livestock fund. Even though increases in feed prices harm livestock presence in short run as expected, this negative effect disappears in the long run.
Role and organization of Fisheries Local Action Groups (FLAGs) analyzed by Ceccacci, Mulazzani and Malorgio according to the six dimensions of the Porter’s Diamond Model in the context of the cluster analysis on coastal communities’ competitiveness. Focusing on Italy, Spain and France, it emerges that while …the literature has mostly emphasized their territorial functions, FLAGs- especially those in areas with relatively higher incidence of employment in fisheries-related sectors- have prioritized projects of sectorial scope.
The paper focuses on dairy cattle farming systems and the sources of innovation for breeders in Algeria. The origin of innovation relating to breeding practices comes mainly from local socio-technical networks, whereas formal extension by public services is ineffective.
The authors Himeur, Ikhlef and Madani highlight that faced with the uncertainties of the climate, public policies and markets, the autonomy fodder is the only alternative for the economic viability and sustainability of agricultural exploitations.
AlFraj analyses rain-fed farmers’ risk attitudes and farmers’ perceptions of risk in Syria. The results demonstrate that precipitation shortage was the most important risk source that threaten farmers in both zones. Moreover, risks of diseases and pests and natural disasters were highly perceived by farmers so fire damages and lack of government support. The financial strategy related to the producing at lowest possible cost is perceived as an important strategy to manage risk by farmers. The results also show that some farm and farmers’ characteristics (e.g. age, experience, education, household size, farm size, family labour,
extension contact, off-farm work and Co-op Member) significantly impact the risk attitudes of the farmers in both zones.
Table olive farming has an important tradition and production potential in western Turkey, and thus it is critical to assess the risk sources and risk management strategies that farmers perceive. The author Tok shows that financial and marketing risk sources are most prominent among farmers, and human-induced and production technology issues represent the most important risk management strategies. In table olive production, it will be beneficial to develop strategies such as increasing the number of trees, improving agricultural activities, increasing the awareness level of farmers on issues such as climate change and
the use of new technologies.
Pérez Mesa analyses new approaches that strengthen the modal shift, rather than focusing simply on the reduction of externalities. A possible option is to redefine ports, conceptualizing them as redistribution and coordination centers and not only as areas of cargo exchange. The paper analyses this problem by attempting to promote intermodality (truck and short sea shipping) for the transport of highly perishable products (vegetables) exported from Southeast Spain, which is the leading supplier to Europe.
Boumali, Mamine, Cheriet, Montaigne and Arbouche analyse several possibilities to valorize prickly pear farming in Algeria, a context dominated by semi-arid ecosystems. The paper shows that the production and processing of prickly pear by-products present a high potential, but remains largely under-exploited. Production is mostly artisanal, collection uses traditional practices and marketing is dominated by unstructured and informal channels. An important constraint is foreign market entry. Due to the partial failure of producer’s commercial export strategies’, local outlets remain dominant.

Disciplina

Economia e Finanza

Argomento

Scienze e tecnologie agro-alimentari

Formato

170 × 240 mm

Pagine

136

Anno

2022

Confezione

Brossura

Lingua

Inglese/Francese

ISBN

9791254771488

ISBN online

9791254771488

doi

https://doi.org/10.30682/nm2203

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