Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of
fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of …

This study assesses the effect of preferential trade agreements on monthly exports of fresh
grapes, pears, apples, oranges and mandarins to the European Union (EU) during 2001 …

The article assesses the stabilization effects of the EU import regime for fresh fruit and
vegetables based on the entry price system (EPS). The analysis is carried out on the EU …

The book investigates the EU preferential trade policy and, in particular, the impact it had on
trade flows from developing countries. It shows that the capability of the" trade as aid" model …

The paper investigates the effects of the entry price scheme (EPS) for a specific sector of
agriculture: fresh fruit and vegetables. The analysis is conducted on the EU prices of …

Fresh produce growers are the main source of food contamination by chemical pesticides. In
their choice of farming practices, producers are influenced by market forces as well as public …

Causal estimation of the short‐term effects of tariff‐rate quotas (TRQs) on vegetable
producer prices is hampered by the large variety and different growing seasons of …

This paper examines the impact of two European Union (EU) market access regulations in
the food sector presumed to simultaneously affect firms' decisions to export food products to …

While on a global scale the majority of farming is still organized around families, a sweeping
observation across regional differences is that family farming takes on increasingly …

About three-quarters of food exports from European Union (EU) countries goes to the
common market in which the free movement of products is ensured. Therefore, it is important …