At the date of Romania’s accession to the European Union, our country’s agriculture had a much lower development level compared to most EU Member States and the EU average. In the present paper we try to investigate the economic size of the Romanian farms in comparison with the economic farm...

Romania, with a total area of 238,000 km2 and a population of over 21 million inhabitants, accounts for 6% of the total area of the European Union and 4% of its population. Yet investments and competitiveness need to be improved, so that Romania can speed up economic growth and reach the...

The natural environment, by the diversity of its ecologic systems, ensures the existence of all living beings, of the human species implicitly. The agricultural ecosystem is a functional biosphere unit, with a structure generated by the criterion of anthropic utility of supplied biomass,...

The space, location, possibilities, needs, scarcity of goods, technologies, destination and scope are important in Culture. In this article, the authors begin from the hypothesis: how culture is linked to environment and ecology? As a result, the key ideas of the work presuppose that this link...

This paper focuses on proposals for changes in the post-2013 CAP support for agriculture related to the implementation of a uniform model of area payments as a core support instrument and additionally on the implementation of technical and procedural simplifications cocerning: a new measure to...

The commitment of the Republic of Serbia towards European integration requires a slightly different approach in defining the role and importance of sustainable development, from that used in documents and practice so far. Hence the need to develop a concise framework in the form of a special...

The methodological opening necessary to approach the economic convergence was based on a series of recent empirical studies, both at national level, in a European context and at the level of the agri-food sector, compared to overall Romanian economy. The competitiveness, which generates...

Assuming the multifunctional character of the rural area implies the multiplication of roles that this territory has in the society. The new (ecological, socio-cultural etc.) roles are assumed as the rural society perceives their importance, as well as the benefits generated by this new vision,...

The vegetable market in Romania has certain particularities that differentiate it from the markets of other agricultural products, among which the most important are the following: the supply and demand atomization, seasonality, and zonality. The poor organization of the vegetable chain is...

The physical size of agricultural holdings refers to the average utilized agricultural area (UAA) of agricultural holdings. It reveals the average level of UAA concentration and represents an important component of agricultural production development. In the present paper we have in view the...