Organic farming in Scandinavia - Productivity and market exit

Ecological Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 2243-2254

  Sauer, Johannes ^a   Park, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Market exit; Organic farming; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; CROP PERFORMANCE; CROP PRODUCTION; ORGANIC FARMING; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 65749117560     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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