The SAVA Region in north-eastern Madagascar is the global centre of vanilla production. Here, around 70,000 farmers are estimated to produce 70-80% of all global bourbon vanilla. Yet, little is known about the farming population, their livelihoods, and the impact of vanilla cultivation on...

This paper develops an agent-based real options model, which is capable of analyzing the investment and disinvestment decisions of heterogeneous competing firms under consideration of tradable output permits. A permit market is integrated into the model in which the firms can trade permits with...

Romania’s agri-food and sustainable rural development strategy, consensual from the political point of view, should be the output of an objective scientific analysis of the agricultural and forestry potential, and adapted, endorsed and supported by all the political and technocratic forces,...

As an important factor in the formation of gross value added in agriculture, animal production experienced a noticeable deterioration trend in the last 22 years, both in the level of inputs and in input use efficiency. Expressed in 2010 prices, the animal production value nationwide decreased by...

The present paper attempts to identify the determinants of the relation between the natural system and the human system in the rural area from Ţara Haţegului – Retezat. The natural system and the human system from the rural area represent a coupled system, where people interact with the...

After the approval of the Declaration of Independence (August 27, 1991), the Republic of Moldova lives in the hope to strengthen its place among the democratic nations of the world and to build a new socio-economic system. The formation of the new economic system goes through a difficult stage...

The necessity of achieving ‘sustainable intensification’ of agricultural production is now widely accepted and the topic of this paper is how innovation in agriculture can be better facilitated in order to achieve this. The paper brings together several interrelated strands of thinking on...

The use and combination of the available resources in the formation of the gross crop production in Romania in the past two decades reflects the existence of visible gaps and disparities at local level, across macro-regions and development regions respectively. The efficiency inflows in the use...

The paper attempts to bring to public debate certain asymmetrical evolutions present in the complicated and difficult process of command economy transformation into a functional market economy, with a special focus on Romania’s agri-food sector. One of the economic phenomena acting as a...

The distribution of financial resources for funding agriculture and rural development programs represents one of the main components of the Common Agricultural Policy. The financial mechanisms and the criteria for public funds allocation for direct payments in agriculture are the object of some...