BACKGROUND AGRIBUSINESS

We provide opportunities for investments within Agribusiness in Eastern Europe.

Through local expertise and local knowledge we provide market research and objective view either in private or institutional investment funds or individual equities.

EC-BA W.L.L invest resources into areas with long term market trends. Core areas are energy, tourism, real-estate and AgriBusiness.

Our personnel qualifications and experience reflect this range of focus areas. EC-BA W.L.L and its subsidiaries choose to utilize state of the art technology combined with a sustainable development focus.

AgriBusiness is seen as the most promising and secure long term investment.

AGRIBUSINESS NEWS

The International conference "Grain Forum 2008" was held on May 26-27, 2008, in Yalta, Crimea (Ukraine).
You can get more detailed information concerning conference at the Marketing Department of IA "APK-Inform": +380 562 320795, +7 495 7894419, e-mail: ponomareva@apk-inform.com

EIN NEWS

Pirinski meets the Bulgarian Association in Ukraine The Chairman of the National Assembly Georgi Pirinski will meet today at 13.30 the Chairman of the Association of Bulgarians in Ukraine Anton Kisse. ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 09:49 GMT



Proud week for Ukrainians Late at night, the old lady calls up the hotel front desk. "I just saw a naked man outside my window" she yells. The receptionist ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 09:49 GMT



Gazprom says Ukraine's gas price will reach $400 ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 09:36 GMT



Yushchenko believes Medvedev humiliated millions of Ukrainian murder victims According to the Presidents press-office, he said this in an interview with El Pais newspaper (Spain). Victor Yushchenko claimed he does not have ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 09:09 GMT



Yushchenko says Orange Revolution his biggest pride , and I was connected with it, the President said. Victor Yushchenko assessed that-time developments as a revolution of the political conscience of nation and ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 09:09 GMT



ExxonMobil Enters Black Sea with Exploration Agreement in Turkey ExxonMobil Enters Black Sea with Exploration Agreement in Turkey , 2 hours ago Views: 4 Comments: 0 Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced its affiliate, ExxonMobil ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 08:52 GMT



U.S. delegation to attend Holodomor events in Ukraine WASHINGTON, November 21 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. President George Bush has named a delegation to attend events in Ukraine on Saturday marking the 75th anniversary ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 08:51 GMT



Yushchenko slams Medvedev for improper attitude to Ukrainian famine Kyiv, November 20 Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko believes that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has shown "an improper attitude towards the tragedy of the Ukrainian people" ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 08:37 GMT



Yulia Tymoshenko confident that crisis will provide a push to deputies in parliament Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is confident that in the next two weeks the crisis will provide a push to deputies in parliament and force them ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 07:11 GMT



I'm confident that the financial crisis will push all factions, without exception, back to normal, even if they're going to resist. A crisis provides a push because every builder wants to continue his projects, every meta Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is confident that in the next two weeks the crisis will provide a push to deputies in parliament and force them ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 07:11 GMT



Ukraine: progress in field works as of November 18 Ukraine: progress in field works as of November 18 As of November 18, Ukraine harvested 53.67 mln tonnes of grains, according to the Ministry ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 05:59 GMT



Poverkhnost awarded Ukraine media rights Artem Milevskiy celebrates a UEFA Champions League goal for Dynamo (Getty Images) UEFA has awarded 2009-12 media rights for the UEFA Champions League and ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 05:38 GMT



Archpriest Dymytro Sydor refuses to be questioned by SBU on charges of separatism Archpriest Dymytro Sydor refuses to be questioned by SBU on charges of separatism Nov. 19, the SBU in Zakarpatya invited for questioning archpriest Dymytro Sydor, ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 05:37 GMT



Heads of three states won't attend Holodomor victims remembrance events in Ukraine Heads of three states wont attend Holodomor victims remembrance events in Ukraine Twenty-five delegations are expected to attend an internationaol forum in Kyiv to ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 05:37 GMT



ExxonMobil and Turkey sign pact on Black Sea exploration ExxonMobil and Turkey sign pact on Black Sea exploration Dow Jones reported that Exxon Mobil Corporation has signed an agreement with Turkey's national oil ... Pub Date: 21 Nov 2008 05:34 GMT

ENERGY MONITORS

Energy plays a role when investing in Agribusiness. Oil and Gas price both on raw as well as consumer side, will indirectly have an effect on AgriCultiral products and its pricing and availability.

We utilize these monitors to see trends that will affect the Agricultural value chain.

WHAT DO WE MEAN WITH AGRIBUSINESS?

In agriculture, agribusiness is a generic term that refers to the various businesses involved in food production, including farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales. The term has two distinctly different connotations depending on context. Within the agriculture industry, agribusiness is widely used simply as a convenient portmanteau of agriculture and business, referring to the range of activities and disciplines encompassed by modern food production. There are academic degrees in and departments of agribusiness, agribusiness trade associations, agribusiness publications, and so forth, worldwide. Here, the term is only descriptive, and is synonymous in the broadest sense with food industry. Among critics of large-scale, industrialized, vertically integrated food production, the term agribusiness is used as a negative, synonymous with corporate farming. As such, it is often contrasted with family farm. Some negative connotation is also derived from the negative associations of "business" and "corporation" from critics of capitalism or corporate excess. An example of an agribusiness is the Old North State Winegrowers Cooperative in North Carolina. Wine grape farmers come together to not only sell their grapes but to share a winery, winemaker and marketing brand together.

AGRIBUSINESS RESOURCES

The impact of cooperatives' risk aversion and equity capital constraints on their inter-firm consolidation and collaboration strategies - with an empirical study of the European dairy industry
Dirk van der Krogt 1, Jerker Nilsson 1, Viggo Høst 2
1Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
2School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
email: Dirk van der Krogt (Dirk.vanderKrogt@ekon.slu.se) Jerker Nilsson (Jerker.Nilsson@ekon.slu.se) Viggo Høst (vhoest@econ.au.dk)
Abstract
This article concludes that cooperative firms' choice of interfirm consolidation and collaboration strategies can be explained by two attributes, inherent in the cooperative business form, namely, risk aversion and equity capital constraints. Empirical data originate from the 15 largest EU dairy firms during a 5-year period (1998-2002). In total 198 activities are identified. They are classified into six categories: (a) mergers, (b) acquisitions, (c) strategic share holdings, (d) joint ventures, (e) licensing, and (f) general collaboration agreements. It is shown that cooperative firms prefer mergers, collaboration agreements, joint ventures, and licensing. All of these are relatively low in terms of both performance risks and relational risks, and they demand limited amounts of equity capital. Investor-owned firms focus on take-over strategies - acquisitions and share holdings. Other indicators of risk aversion are that cooperatives tend to collaborate with other cooperatives and that they prefer partners in their own home market. [EconLit: Q130; P130; L200.] © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Agribusiness 23: 453-472, 2007.

Assessing the competitiveness situation of EU food and drink manufacturing industries: An index-based approach
Christian Fischer, Sebastian Schornberg
Department of Agricultural and Food Market Research. Institute for Food, and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
email: Christian Fischer (christian.fischer@ilr.uni-bonn.de) Sebastian Schornberg (sebastian.schornberg@ilr.uni-bonn.de)
Abstract

The competitiveness of the food and drink (F&D) manufacturing sector in 13 countries is analyzed empirically, using 1995-2002 Eurostat data.
After a review of earlier agribusiness competitiveness studies, an Industrial Competitiveness Index is proposed as a composite measure for multidimensional economic performance, covering profitability, productivity and output growth. The index approach enables relative competitiveness comparisons across industries, countries and over time. In addition, cluster analysis is used for identifying distinct groups of industries characterized by similar performance patterns. The results suggest that the beverage manufacturing industry was the most competitive EU F&D industry, while the United Kingdom was the country with the highest performance averaged across all F&D manufacturing activities. As compared to the average of the period 1995-1998, overall competitiveness in real terms slightly increased. At the same time, overall competitiveness seems also to have converged slightly across countries, implying that the performance of EU countries in F&D manufacturing has become more similar. As for the clustering results, it appears that competitiveness is in general fairly equally distributed across the different industries and that above- or below-average performance is usually not sustained for long. [EconLit citations: F230, L660, Q130] © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Agribusiness 23: 473-495, 2007.
Economic evaluation of shelf-space management in grocery stores
Chanjin Chung 1, Todd M. Schmit 2, Diansheng Dong 3, Harry M. Kaiser 4
1Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078
2Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
3Research Associate, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
4Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
email: Chanjin Chung (chanjin.chung@okstate.edu) Todd M. Schmit (tms1@cornell.edu) Diansheng Dong (dd66@cornell.edu) Harry M. Kaiser (hmk2@cornell.edu)
Abstract
Recently, many commodity groups have shifted promotion expenditures from generic advertising to non-advertising activities such as in-store promotion programs. Accordingly, corresponding evaluation methods need to be developed to identify the benefits of these non-advertising programs. We develop a general framework to assess product sales performance of in-store shelf-space management programs in retail stores. The framework was applied to the evaluation of dairy case management programs in the Northwestern Hudson Valley market, New York. Simulation results on fluid milk product sales indicate that preferred product locations vary between smaller convenience stores and larger supermarket retailers. On average, the dairy case management program was estimated to improve product sales 6 to 10% at the retailer level. [Econlit subject codes: M300, Q130] © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Agribusiness 23: 583-597, 2007.

World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development
Table of Contents, Foreword, Acknowledgements & Abbreviations
Overview
Part I: What can Agriculture do for Development?
Chapter 1: Growth and Poverty Reduction in Agriculture
Focus A: Declining rural poverty has been a key factor in aggregate poverty reduction
Chapter 2: Agriculture's performance, diversity, and uncertainities
Focus B: Biofuels: the promise and the risks
Chapter 3: Rural households and their pathways out of poverty
Focus C: What are the links between agricultural production and food security?
Part II: What are effective instruments for using agriculture for development?
Chapter 4: Reforming trade, price, and subsidy policies
Chapter 5: Bringing agriculture to the market
Focus D: Agribusiness for development
Chapter 6: Supporting smallholder competitiveness through institutional innovations
Chapter 7: Innovating through science and technology
Focus E: Capturing the benefits for genetically modified organisms for the poor
Chapter 8: Making agricultural systems more environmentally sustainable
Focus F: Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in agriculture
Chapter 9: Moving beyond the farm
Focus G: Education and skills for rural development
Focus H: The two-way links between agriculture and health
Part III: How can agriculture-for-development agendas best be implemented?
Chapter 10: Emerging national agendas for agriculture
Chapter 11: Strengthening governance, from local to global
Bibliographical Note
Endnotes
Selected Indicators
Index


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