Russia is a major player in the global wheat market, but extensive unused land resources
and large yield gaps suggest that wheat production can be substantially increased. We …

Using a threshold vector error correction model approach, we find the wheat market of
Russia to be segmented, with the primary grain export region poorly integrated with the …

Widespread cropland abandonment occurred after the collapse of socialism across the
former Soviet Union, but the rates and spatial patterns of abandoned lands are not well …

The optimal use of resources in aquaculture is important, especially in developing countries,
to obtain the highest possible outcome from the production process to support food security …

This paper quantifies the importance of production risk and technical efficiency as two
possible sources of production variability in German organic and conventional farming …

Pangas is a relatively new and fast-growing fish species that has great potential for
production and export growth in Bangladesh. However, production variability exists from …

We show that the monotonicity condition is conceptually important in Stochastic Frontier
Analysis (SFA). Despite its importance, most empirical studies do not impose monotonicity …

In the 2000s, Russia emerged as a major player in world agricultural markets, on both the
supply (mainly grain) and demand side. This article examines Russia's agricultural transition …

Grain production in the countries of the former USSR sharply declined during the past two
decades and has only recently started to recover. In the context of the current economic and …

This paper analyses regional productivity and technical efficiency development in Russian
agriculture. We formulate a regional stochastic frontier model by assuming that producers …