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The agricultural market in Italy

The following report analyses some particularly important aspects of the Italian agricultural structure. The total market is very fragmented, consisting of a large number of very small farms that set against a few others of considerable importance,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: European Agri-Business Under Pressure

Author: Giovanni Monaco

February 1, 1996

New environmental challenges for the agricultural input industries in the European Union

This paper will identify possible environmental policies aiming to reduce agricultural pollution and how they will affect farming decisions. Specifically, emphasis will be put on the impacts of those policies in combination with the CAP-reform on the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Farmer To Consumer

Author: Alberto Garrido

June 15, 1994

Farmers' reactions to new environmental challenges

In the following it will be analysed in how far these and other instruments were accepted by the farmers up to now, initiated target-orientated processes and produced purposeful results. With this it is necessary to differentiate the mechanisms of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Farmer To Consumer

Authors: Karl-Georg Herbert, Andreas Lettmann

Company: Produkt + Markt GmbH & Co. KG

June 15, 1994

Structural change in agriculture due to demographic processes

Whether one fears future farm closings due to a lack of successors or expressly advocates agricultural structural changes, the manner in which these changes can be expected to take place is of interest to agricultural policy. For this reason, a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Farmer To Consumer

Author: Ferdinand Fasterding

June 15, 1994

The organization of European food processing

This article examines the organization of European food industry during a time of significant changes in their operating environment. The creation of common European markets, changes in agricultural policy, changing customer preferences together with...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Farmer To Consumer

Authors: Jerker Nilsson, Petri Ollila

June 15, 1994

Agriculture as a part of society

Agriculture as a part of society (as well as the agricultural industry and preferably the communication chain within the agricultural industry) must rethink its role. In the field of crop protection, for example, we find that the market in West...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Farmer To Consumer

Author: Clemens Große Frie

June 15, 1994

Will the E.C./C.A.P. semi-compulsory set-aside scheme lead to a musical chairs dance among machinery manufacturers?

Combine harvester sales can be linked to total arable area, the changes in the cropping patterns, the number of holdings (and the changes in farm size), farmers’ incomes and expected priorities in their investment decisions. At New Holland we...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Farmer To Consumer

Author: Alfons-Pierre Ameel

June 15, 1994

The common agricultural policy

This paper examines the impact of the GATT agreement and concludes that its direct impact will be minimal. More important is the establishment of a framework that will serve as a basis for GATT Mark II for agriculture from 2003. The current GATT will...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Farmer To Consumer

Author: Tony M. Houghton

June 15, 1994

Systems determine markets

The main arguments of this paper are threefold:- 1. Firstly, that although the concept of ‘global’ marketing of pharmaceutical products has many attractions, its application should be examined with extreme caution. In particular, that the...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1994: Meeting The Pressures By Intelligent Resourcing

Author: Howard Biggs

June 2, 1994