Erika Quendler

Bundesanstalt für Agrarwirtschaft und Bergbauernfragen

Since the reinforced emergence of feminist issues in the 1970s and the subsequent institutionalisation of gender-equality policy the visibility of women has also been increasing in Austrian agriculture and forestry. Not only do women in most cases shoulder the main responsibility for the household and all the latter entails but they are also playin...

Altruistically speaking, humanity has now reached a point where it has recognized that it has a responsibility to achieve a development that is sustainable, to wit the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This notwithstanding, as an intrinsically selfish creature, humanity also has a need to fulfil its own needs. This concept is set...

We replicate Bocquého et al. (2014), who used multiple price lists to investigate the risk preferences of 107 French farmers. We collected new data from 1430 participants in 11 European farming systems. In agreement with the original study, farmers' risk preferences are best described by Cumulative Prospect Theory. Structural model estimates show t...

This study is the first to calculate the size and development of the informal/shadow economies in the agricultural sector for 15 "old" EU countries over 1996-2019. The multiple indicators multiple causes model was used for the estimation of levels and development of informal economies of these countries. The results show higher levels of informal e...

Altruistically speaking, humanity has now reached a point where it has recognised that it has a responsibility to achieve a development that is sustainable. This responsibility is outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This notwithstanding, as an intrinsically selfish creature, humanity also has a need to fulfil its ow...

Perhaps no phenomenon has so quickly and radically challenged agri-food logistics as the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This chapter postulates on the short- to longer-term implications of this public health crisis on food loss and waste (FLW) throughout the whole supply chain and the role of agri-food logistics. This chapter outlines examples of...

Purpose Using the context of a farm holiday venue, the purpose of this study is to empirically test whether textual references can have significant influences on potential consumers' affective responses and interest in advertisements. Design/methodology/approach In a between-subjects experiment, a reference to sunshine (the underlined phrase in th...

Family farm at national and EU level promotes a more sustainable and sustainable family farm sector. Family farms are the backbone of the EU agriculture. The issue of family farms loom large, especially for their dominated presence in small farms. Along these lines, family farms make a significant contribution to food security by ensuring a continu...

Many aspects of the global economy have changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, including our food system (Ahmed et al., 2020; Béné, 2020; Galanakis, 2020; Rippin et al., 2020; Savary et al., 2020). Indeed, the pandemic affected all the stages of the food chain, from production to consumption, with implications in terms of food losses...

The farm holiday has the potential to rebound faster following the COVID-19 pandemic than many other forms of tourism. This potential is due to two elements that are abundant in the location of holiday farms: fresh air and sunlight. This conceptual paper synthesizes various streams of research that illustrate how fresh air and sunlight can improve...

While guests go on farm holidays in the hope of receiving authentic and memorable experiences, information overload is a factor that is increasingly detracting from such experiences. For instance, the steady stream of emails, text messages, and news received through social media channels tends to distract from the main experience. To cope with such...

Enabling employability, the next generations’ employment and job prospects is crucial in achieving meaningful lives of equal dignity within the current digital era and beyond. Not only have the responsibilities associated with major drivers become crucial in our lives but also the issue of a transformation to a development that is sustainable is ta...

Ensuring sustainable and economically viable agriculture requires economic resilience before, throughout, and after a shock. This paper studies the economic resilience of Austrian agriculture within the period of 1995 to 2019. However, methods for tracking changes in economic resilience have so far seen only limited application in agriculture. The...

This second edition of the Handbook provides a comprehensive examination of lifelong learning. With 38 chapters (12 new and 23 updated), the approach is interdisciplinary, spanning human resources development, adult learning (educational perspective), psychology, career and vocational learning, management and executive development, cultural anthrop...

Sustainability may be defined in the most general terms as the ability to meet the needs of the present without diminishing opportunities for the future. It is also generally conceded that sustainability is multidimensional in that it depends on ecological, social and economic integrity - the three cornerstones of sustainability. It is no surprise...

The process of digital transformation has been gaining momentum in secondary colleges for agriculture and forestry. Based on data from an online survey about the digital transformation of Austrian secondary colleges of agriculture and forestry this paper gives insights into the status quo. It focuses on three central questions. (I) What is the stan...

After joining the European Union (EU) in 1995 Austria adopted the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This chapter reviews the changes in agricultural production and the economic situation of agriculture since the accession to the EU. The analysis is primarily based on macro-economic data from the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA) over the peri...

Tourism is vitally important to the Austrian economy. The number of tourist destinations, both farms and other forms of accommodation, in the different regions of Austria is considerably and constantly changing. This paper discusses the position of the ‘farm holiday’ compared to other forms of tourism. Understanding the resilience of farm holidays...

Understanding living conditions is critical to the understanding of female farmers’way of life. They are fundamental to people’s lives and vary from person to person.Normatively speaking, a good life cannot be achieved without having good livingconditions. The term living conditions, either as a target of different politicalinterests, agendas and p...

Recently there has been a surge of interest in family farms – in particular because2014 was declared by the United Nations as the International Year of FamilyFarming. This focus on family farms is mainly a reaction to several trends, such aseconomic pressures, large-scale land grabbing or the restructuring of agrifoodchains, etc. Yet it has to be a...

For decades, the mountain regions in Austria have been of regional, social,environmental and economic relevance. The European Union has ranked themamong the most disadvantaged areas for agriculture. Nevertheless, in mountainousregions, ‘disadvantaged’ is not synonymous with marginal. On the contrary,agriculture is central to mountainous regions. In...

This contribution aims to examine the development of the farmers’ shares of food expenditures for human consumption in Austria. The calculations are based on two different methods, the Agristat method (developed in Switzerland) and the method of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO). Calculation shows that the farmer's share from retai...

N In recent decades the farming areas in Austria have been affected by a variety of phenomena. The interplay of individualisation, globalisation, segregation, suburban-isation and deindustrialisation has been shaping a new type of area which is neither urban, nor rural: the "Zwischenstadt", a sort of demi-towns. In addition to rural areas, the demi...

There has been renewed interest in the farmer's share of retail food sales recently, in the wake of sharp fluctuations in farm-gate or retail prices. Statistics on farmers' shares were already being developed decades ago and recent updates are a response to these fluctuations. We define the farm share as the average portion from each monetary unit...

The consideration of learning as a lifelong process is paramount when trying to bring about a change in the values and attitudes of the workforce and society towards a sustainable development. Education bodies and employers are beginning to be aware of the need for training in the manifold aspects of sustainable development. The aim of this paper i...

After joining the European Union (EU) in 1995 Austria adopted the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This chapter reviews the changes in agricultural production and the economic situation of agriculture since the accession to the EU. The analysis is primarily based on macro-economic data from the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA) over the peri...

There is a growing interest in supporting people, communities, society and the earth to adapt to the disturbances and challenges of today and the future. Furthermore, there is a general assumption that there are close links between thedevelopment and adaptation of nature and humanity. Over time humanity has shaped nature and nature has shaped the d...

A great many people have already embraced the need for education and training as a key to moving the workforce and society in general toward a sustainable living process. Education bodies and employers are beginning to recognise this trend and know about the need for training in the manifold aspects of sustainable development (SD). Different action...

Innerhalb des Konzepts einer multifunktionalen Landwirtschaft gewinnt die Soziale Landwirtschaft eine immer größere Bedeutung. Die Bundesanstalt für Bergbauernfragen und die Bundesanstalt für Agrarwirtschaft aus Wien sowie die Europäischen Akademie in Bozen und das Istituto Agrario di San Michelle all’Adige im Trentino haben dazu eine gemeinsamen,...

With respect to the new Common Market Organisation (CMO) for fruit and vegetables, the present paper focuses on societal developments that influence the demand for fruits and vegetables, provides some basic information on fruit and vegetable production in Austria and, finally, describes the roles of Producer Organisations (PO) and retailers in Aust...

The paper presents a short version of the basic method based on cost- effectiveness analysis of measures to assess the possible reductions of nitrogen loads in the water bodies of selected countries in the Danube catchment area originating from agriculture, applied in the daNUbs project. The effects on the national nitrogen soil surface balances of...

Sustainability of farms is subject of different discussions. General opinion is that large farms are more sustainable than smaller ones. Linear programming was used to determine sustainability and eco-social efficiency differences of pig fattening farms of varying sizes. 624 different types of farm structures indicated a wide variety of eco-social...

Future Austrian agriculture has been discussed currently. By employing scenario techniques five possible future scenarios (closing agricultural production, survival of intensive agriculture in advantaged production areas, urbanisation, modernisation of traditional small scale mixed (peasant) agriculture and multifunctional large scale agriculture)...

Agricultural data (1995) of individual farms are data pool of classification by different criteria like farmland, cropland, standard gross margin, livestock unit and labour. This all over the country classification of farm sizes (dwarf, small, medium and large farms) and types (subsistence and hobby farmers, support orientated farms, market and wor...

Summary Agricultural data (1995) of individual farms are data pool of classification by different criteria like farmland, cropland, standard gross margin, livestock unit and labour. This all over the country classification of farm sizes (dwarf, small, medium and large farms) and types (subsistence and hobby farmers, support orientated farms, market...

Summary Sustainability of farms is subject of different discussions. General opinion is that large farms are more sustainable than smaller ones. Linear programming was used to determine sustainability and eco-social efficiency differences of pig fat- tening farms of varying sizes. 624 different types of farm structures indicated a wide variety of e...