Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Juan Francisco Velasco-Muñoz Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economy and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Almería, Almería, Spain Author-Workplace-Name: Research Centre on Mediterranean Intensive Agrosystems and Agrifood Biotechnology, University of Almería, Almería, Spain Author-Name: José Ángel Aznar-Sánchez Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economy and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Almería, Almería, Spain Author-Workplace-Name: Research Centre on Mediterranean Intensive Agrosystems and Agrifood Biotechnology, University of Almería, Almería, Spain Author-Name: Belén López-Felices Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economy and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Almería, Almería, Spain Author-Workplace-Name: Research Centre on Mediterranean Intensive Agrosystems and Agrifood Biotechnology, University of Almería, Almería, Spain Author-Name: Gabriella Balacco Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry, Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy Title: Adopting sustainable water management practices in agriculture based on stakeholder preferences Abstract: Technology has made it possible to achieve the very efficient use of water resources in agriculture. However, there are a set of practices that could increase both the availability and quality of the water resources, but which are not yet widely used. In view of the scarcity situation mainly produced by the consequences of climate change, the objective of this work is to analyse the adoption of sustainable irrigation management practices in agriculture. To this end, the aim is to identify and evaluate the variables involved in adopting sustainable practices in agriculture through the use of different qualitative research tools in successive phases (literature review, in-depth interviews, Delphi method and workshop). The results indicate that the sustainable practices to be adopted to improve water management in the study area are rainwater harvesting (RWH) and pond covering (PC). The main barriers are the costs, some farm characteristics and lack of research, while the facilitators include easy access to technology and the existence of farmer-to-farmer networks. Furthermore, the most influential stakeholders for these practices are the farmers, policymakers and researchers. Proposals for the adoption of sustainable water use practices have also been made consensually with all the involved agents. Keywords: behavioural economics, participatory methodology, qualitative research, stakeholder involvement, sustainability, water resources management Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 317-326 Volume: 68 Issue: 9 Year: 2022 DOI: 10.17221/203/2022-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/203/2022-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-202209-0001.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:68:y:2022:i:9:id:203-2022-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adele Coppola Author-Workplace-Name: School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Sciences (SAFE), University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy Author-Name: Mario Amato Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy Author-Name: Domenico Vistocco Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy Author-Name: Fabio Verneau Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy Title: Measuring the economic sustainability of Italian farms using FADN data Abstract: In recent literature, the issue of sustainability and its measure has been addressed with different approaches that depend on the multidimensional nature of the concept and the specific sector and context to which it applies. The present work focuses on the economic sustainability component and suggests an operative measure at the farm level. The measure of economic sustainability has been applied to Italian family farms using Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). Based on this data, an efficiency indicator (EI) and two income indicators [a factor profitability indicator (FPI) and a comparable income indicator (CII)] expressing the ability to remunerate the entrepreneur's production factors at their opportunity cost and the farm's income capacity have been used in a principal component analysis (PCA) to build an economic sustainability index (SI). The index was used to describe Italian farms' economic sustainability levels but was also the cue to discuss problems related to identifying economic sustainability thresholds and the trade-off between efficiency and income components. Keywords: efficiency, Farm Accountancy Data Network, farm income, farm viability, statistical indicator Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 327-337 Volume: 68 Issue: 9 Year: 2022 DOI: 10.17221/169/2022-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/169/2022-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-202209-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:68:y:2022:i:9:id:169-2022-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karolina Pawlak Author-Name: Joanna Lukasiewicz Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics and Economic Policy in Agribusiness, Faculty of Economics, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland Title: Does intra-industry specialisation enhance or limit comparative advantage? Evidence from the world citrus fruit trade Abstract: In this paper, we aim to identify the intensity and nature of intra-industry specialisation in the global trade in citrus fruits. We used data from the United Nations Comtrade database. We performed both static and dynamic assessments of the intensity of intra-industry trade (IIT) by using the traditional Grubel-Lloyd index and the marginal IIT (MIIT) index, respectively. We also separated IIT into horizontal and vertical trade, and we verified the relationship between changes in the intra-industry pattern of trade and the level of comparative advantage gained by the largest producers and exporters of citrus fruits in the world. We used the revealed symmetric comparative advantage (RSCA) index to evaluate the level of international competitiveness. Conducting these analyses allowed us to fill the existing research gap by identifying the nature of IIT in products with specific quality characteristics but at a lower processing stage. The study's results indicated that the stronger the IIT or the more intensive shifts toward deepening the intra-industry specialisation, the lesser the comparative advantage of a country in the global export of citrus fruits. Nevertheless, the increased intensity of intra-industry specialisation does not always lead to a deterioration in the value of the trade balance. Keywords: citrus fruits, horizontal intra-industry trade, relative trade advantage, vertical intra-industry trade, world market Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 338-347 Volume: 68 Issue: 9 Year: 2022 DOI: 10.17221/163/2022-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/163/2022-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-202209-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:68:y:2022:i:9:id:163-2022-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Harun Uçak Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya, Turkey Author-Name: Yakup Ari Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya, Turkey Author-Name: Esin Yelgen Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya, Turkey Title: The volatility connectedness among fertilisers and agricultural crop prices: Evidence from selected main agricultural products Abstract: The price of fertiliser, which is one of the most important inputs of agricultural production, has increased significantly in recent years. In this study, we empirically analysed the effect of volatility in fertiliser prices on selected agricultural products by using the Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness approach, which is based on time-varying parameter (TVP) vector auto-regression (VAR). The findings showed that the spread of volatility and the interconnectedness between these variables increased in times of crisis and that the risk pass-through was due to fertiliser prices. However, empirical results showed that the price volatility of phosphate rock and urea was highly correlated to the volatility of other products. Furthermore, we found that sugar, soybean and cotton were the agricultural products most vulnerable to the effects of external shocks. Keywords: Diebold-Yilmaz approach, dynamic connectedness, time-varying parameter vector auto-regression, volatility spillover Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 348-360 Volume: 68 Issue: 9 Year: 2022 DOI: 10.17221/147/2022-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/147/2022-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-202209-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:68:y:2022:i:9:id:147-2022-AGRICECON