Enoch Owusu-Sekyere1, Henry Jordaan1 1Department of Agricultural Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa kofiwusu23@gmail.com/OwusuSekyereE@ufs.ac.za ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper was to estimate consumers’ preferences for environmentally sustainable beef products, with the aim of developing and...
- January 22, 2019
Willy Baltussen; Katja Logatcheva, Michiel van Galen, Machiel Reinders Wageningen Economic Research Willy.Baltussen@wur.nl Abstract In 2018 the position of the primary producers in the Netherlands was investigated by a desk study, a survey among primary producers and a workshop...
- January 22, 2019
Prof CA Bisschoff & Mr B Grainger NWU Business School, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Christo.bisschoff@nwu.ac.za Abstract The agricultural tractor market in South Africa and more particular the landlocked bread basket status of the North West province, near the...
- January 22, 2019
Marvin C. Pangborn Facility of Agribusiness and Commerce, Lincoln University, New Zealand Marvin.Pangborn@lincoln.ac.nz ABSTRACT Alderbrook Farm Ltd. (AFL) was established as a 50-50 sharemilking partnership in 1987. Since the initiation of operations, the business has grown to be a self-contained...
- January 22, 2019
Mrs Catherine Bell1,2 1Backswath Management Inc, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada 2California Southern University, Costa Mesa, California, USA ABSTRACT Intergenerational transfer, or succession, is often a goal for family businesses in general, and family farms in particular. This challenging objective is...
- January 22, 2019
Uthai Pongpakamulnarm1, Elizabeth Jackson1 1School of Management, Curtin University elizabeth.jackson@curtin.edu.au ABSTRACT This research aims to explore the trend of sustainability policies and practices in Australian seafood product supply chains and to identify the sustainability practices of supply chain members over...
- January 22, 2019
Elizabeth Jackson School of Management, Curtin University elizabeth.jackson@curtin.edu.au ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to conduct a critical investigation of global vegetables benchmarking initiatives for the development of a new benchmarking system for vegetable production in Western Australia. ...
- January 22, 2019
Clemens Fuchs1, Karl Marquardt 1, Joachim Kasten 1 and Katharina Skau 1 1University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, Germany cfuchs@hs-nb.de ABSTRACT Only a small number of German farmers invest into wind turbines on the land they own. In contrast to that they...
- January 22, 2019
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner1 1Carl von Linde Senior Fellow at TUM Institute of Advanced Study Abstract: Soil is build of a dynamic and hierarchically organized system of various organic and inorganic constituents and organisms, the spatial structure of...
- January 7, 2019
