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New Medit - Vol. 18 N. 3 (2019) - Bologna University Press

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New Medit, Economia e Finanza

New Medit - Vol. 18 N. 3 (2019)

Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment

Foreword
Authors Xhoxhi et al. investigate the determinants of farmers’ participation in contract farming in Albania. They show that intermediaries’ bargaining power moderates negatively the relationship between farmers’ specific investments and contract farming participation. Farmers’ with high specific investment are reluctant to contract with buyers because contracting with such a buyer implies that they can extract higher values from farmers’ specific investments.
An assess of the agriculture trade integration among countries signed under the Agadir agreement has been analysed by Amine Hedoui, Natos and Mattas. Authors chose Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan by evaluating firstly the degree of sectorial and geographical dispersion of the four countries agricultural exports and secondly appraising the extent of agricultural trade complementarity towards EU countries. The overall results of the work prove that, despite the progress made in flourishing agricultural exports geographically and sectorally, as well as in terms of complementarity, south-south agricultural integration is not yet as equal as south-north integration and the “hub and spoke” effect is still persisting .
The impacts of climate change on dairy cattle farms in Turkey has been analysed by Koç and Uzmay. According to the results of cost analysis, it was determined that climate change will lead to a 10-50% cost increase on dairy farms by the year 2040. The heat stress is responsible for 48-71% …of the increase in the cost of production, where 24-52% is due to increase in feed prices. Agricultural supports and investment projects should be related to climate change.
The author Amine Benmehaia aims at analysing Algerian farmers’ choices of marketing channels in the date-palm supply chain. The main results highlight that downstream vertical integration practices are lead by income-related risks minimization, and the upstream vertical integration is favourable for further downstream vertical integration. The research would provide valuable information about the date palm producer’s marketing decision-making process and thus would contribute to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of dates industry in Algeria.
Political instabilities and violent political conflict have recently grown to decisive factors permanently challenging the livelihoods of millions the Middle East and North Africa. Ihle, Khader El-Jafari and von Cramon-Taubadel assess whether and to what extent varying intensities of conflict impact economic activity in Palestine which has been subject to substantial violent political conflict for decades. The impact of varying conflict intensities on weekly average prices appears to be modest. This might suggest that effects happen on a temporally and geographically more disaggregated scale.
Frangu et al. assess the technical efficiency of milk production in Kosovo using the stochastic frontier analysis. The study finds that technical efficiency of milk production by most of these farms is high. The variation in milk production among the sampled farms was modelled in terms of concentrate and forage feed costs and pre-production costs. The study suggests that concentrate feed and pre-production costs can significantly influence technical efficiency of milk production among Kosovar dairy farms.
Bashiri Behmiri, Correia and Gouveia examine the factors of wine production competitiveness in the European Union from a macroeconomic perspective. They find a positive impact from labour, capital and wine export and a negative impact from interest rate to wine production; however, no robust and significant impact is observed from wine import as well as from inflation and exchange rates.
Daneshvar Kakhki, Mehdi Farsi, Fakari and Kojori compared the price fluctuation of barley, one of the main input in the Iran livestock and poultry industries, in the Iran Mercantile Exchange, Iran domestic free market and World Market by applying the GARCH model. The results showed that the price fluctuations of the domestic market are more than the global market. In addition, the shocks and volatilities of the world and Iran free market transmitted to the Iran Mercantile Exchange. Thus, the use of new financial instruments in the domestic free market is necessary.

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Disciplina

Economia e Finanza

Argomento

Scienze e tecnologie agro-alimentari

Formato

170 × 240 mm

Pagine

128

Anno

2019

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN

9788869234569

ISBN online

9788869234569

doi

10.30682/nm1903

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