However, it is indeed true that biodynamic agriculture has some characteristic aspects of farming, nutrition, etc. that are intrinsic to and found only in this agricultural method.
For our study, the method has been adapted with refined GHC definitions to deal with the specific characteristics of farm holdings.
A three-point longitudinal survey was designed to evaluate the above characteristics of farms in the Caribbean and Orinoquía regions.
The relative size of GM rents (the value of productivity gains and the non-pecuniary benefits from GM crops), rents for identity preserved non-GM crops (price premiums realised over the GM crop price), characteristics of farms, and possible variation in agricultural landscapes are also taken into account.
The Women on Farms Survey (2001) has information about demographic characteristics and financial characteristics of farm households.
Thus, the idea was to create a mean by which a quantitative evaluation of the social characteristics of farms could be made.
Nevertheless, this amount can widely vary depending on local features, crops profitability and structural characteristics of farms (Cardillo et al., 2012).
The survey collects data to measure the financial condition (farm income, expenses, assets, and debts) and operating characteristics of farm businesses, the cost of producing agricultural commodities, and the well-being of farm operator households.
The characteristics of farms excluded from the analyses due to missing data for one or more variables are shown in Table 3.
The farm-level predictors of large between-farm association frequency may only reflect the characteristics of farms connected to the large SH in the PND; it may not be appropriate to generalise and assume that farms with similar characteristics will also be associated with other large SHs.
