Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy

Abstract

Twenty-two papers describe models, methodologies, and techniques in different areas of agricultural and environmental management and policy. Papers discuss vector autoregressive models for dynamic analysis of prices in the agrifood system; irrigation water resource in a rice-growing area--economic evaluation under different pricing conditions; stochastic partial equilibrium modeling--an application to crop yield variability; alternative specifications of reference income levels in the income stabilization tool; developing a modeling tool for policy and economic rent in agriculture; performance evaluation of rural governance using an integrated Analytic Hierarchy Process and VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija Kompromisno Resenje (AHP-VIKOR) methodology; consumers' perception of wastewater usage in agriculture--evidence from Greece; modeling structural change in ex ante policy impact analysis; public preferences for climate change adaptation policies in Greece--a choice experiment application on river uses; the stakeholder analysis--a contribution toward improving the impact of rural policy; impacts of climate change on agriculture water management--application of an integrated hydrological-economic modeling tool in a semiarid region; expanding agrifood production and employment in the presence of climate policy constraints--quantifying the tradeoff in Ireland; development and application of economic and environmental models of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture--some difficult choices for policymakers; economic incentives and alternative nitrogen regulation schemes--a spatial sector economic modeling approach; conservation agriculture as a driving force to accumulate carbon in soils--an analysis of the rural development program in Lombardy; cross-Atlantic differences in biotechnology and genetically modified organisms--a media content analysis; examining the evolution of agricultural production in three South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries--Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan; assessing the evolution of technical efficiency of agriculture in EU countries--whether there a role for the Agenda 2000; agriculture commodity prices forecasting using a fuzzy inference system; assessment of common agriculture policy reform 2014-20 in the Emilia-Romagna region; measuring biodiversity of cropping structure with the use of Farm Accountancy Data Network data; and the economic efficiency of production systems in the Gharb irrigated area (Morocco) affected by access to water resources. Zopounidis is in the Department of Production Engineering and Management at the Technical University of Crete. Kalogeras is in the Department of Marketing with the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University. Mattas is in the School of Agriculture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Van Dijk is in the Center for Entrepreneurship at Nyenrode Business University. Baourakis is in the Business Economics and Management Department at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania. No index.