The highly variable economic performance of European agriculture

Land Use Policy

Volumn 45, Issue , 2015, Pages 26-35

  Giannakis, Elias ^a   Bruggeman, Adriana ^a  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Cluster analysis; Common Agricultural Policy; Economic performance; Environmental conditions; Exact logistic regression analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CROP YIELD; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN UNION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; WHEAT;

BULGARIA; GERMANY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NETHERLANDS; PORTUGAL;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84961291055     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.12.009     Document Type: Article

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