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 vary-
ing 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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