in many european states such as spain and italy there has been a significant growth of organic utilizable surface as a consequence of both a change in the model of agricultural production and also in order to satisfy arising demand of organic food. the purpose of this research was to investigate the level of technical, allocative and economic efficiency in italian olive farms with two different...

The Austrian example illustrates the potentials as well as the limitations of forest accountancy data networks as devices for investigating and furthering the profitability of small scale farm forestry (SSFF). Special reference is made to the experiences gained in the process of adaptation and renewal of the system of data management and reporting, which took place in the year 2000. The sampled...

Croatia is the newest member of EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). So far, no comprehensive evaluation national FADN system has been conducted, and this study based on a survey staff involved desktop analysis was conducted to fill gap. The three main elements Croatian are National Committee, Ministry Agriculture as Liaison Agency (LA) Bureau for statistics. All activities carried out by L...

The FADN (farm accountancy data network) provides farm accountancy data to determine and analyse income of agricultural holdings. The underlying data base has to be prepared for properly assessing the impacts of EU policy changes and market developments on agricultural income. This article presents the FADN data mining tool that reads and converts the given data for analysing the data itself an...

This study aims at assessing if benefits, based on the economic performance of farms operating in an agro-food supply chain, are generated by a vertical coordination. A panel data (2008–2011) of durum wheat producers was used, namely the Italian Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). Outcomes of coordinated and non-coordinated farms with equal farm and farmer characteristics were calculated thro...

In 1992, the EU initiated the process of decoupling income transfers from agricultural production which has culminated in the 2003 reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP). In this reform 'single farm payments' have been introduced which are based on direct payments during the reference period 2000-2002. We use statistics of such payments to explore the distribution patterns across farm h...

This presentation provides comparative analysis of agricultural holdings in Estonia based on the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data. The FADN data for reference years 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 have been analysed. The FADN data analyses showed, that there are very big differences in the structure of the agricultural holdings. Individual farms represent ca 92% of the total population of ag...