The first part of this article presents a general overview of the current situation in the Romanian agriculture emphasizing its extreme polarisation and the importance of this sector for the economy. In the second part the emphasis falls on CAP reform. The authors seek to evaluate how the...

Farm fragmentation and the need for consolidation and investment remains a major problem for Romanian agriculture, as documented in this article. One of the key structural problems is over employment in agriculture, which puts a strong pressure on the land and constrains the supply of land for...

Placing Romania’s agriculture in the EU context, the article is trying to determine whether this sector, featuring extreme polarization and highly oversized labor force, can contribute to country’s general effort towards catching-up. The first section describes the multiple challenges the...

The present paper intends to present “a short history” of a young research network established a few years ago. It is a good example for other networks, institutes, research centers and researchers of how an idea can become reality. The network has already a European cover and impact. Its...

The rural development network is meant to build up sustainable partnerships between the academic/university nuclei and the rural players, to develop and refine the instruments used in the investigation and dissemination of good practices. An efficient rural development network also aims at...

The scientific research is one of the most dynamic fields of activity, the influence of which is felt at all the levels of the economic and social life. The increased focus on the scientific research, as essential factor in the process of economic and social development of the European area in...

Rural development and modernization implicitly became the main practical and theoretical issues of the local rural communities. In general, the variants of development patterns that are envisaged start from the present characteristics of the rural area, focusing upon the modernization of...

The establishment of rural development networks represents an opportunity for the rural players, increasing the collaboration opportunities at local, national and European level. The power of rural development networks is based on the fact that they put together the people from the rural areas,...

The European Union has a very rich experience in the field of research, innovation and knowledge transfer. In order to take advantage of this experience, the economic policies in this field should be able to efficiently use the national experience. This objective can be also reached by the best...

The Romanian rural area is characterized by high conservatorism, at attitudinal level, and to be an entrepreneur, under these circumstances, is a social innovation. Furthermore, this role is assumed in the conditions of an extremely unfavourable business environment. The present study intends to...