The present paper attempts to assess the rural household behaviour in the 11 communes of Haţeg-Retezat area, in relation with the environment, as well as with the importance attached to its different components by the respondents. The study is based on the questionnaires applied in the rural...

At present, the focus of attention in the specialty literature as well as in the public policies is primarily on the human capital, whose decisive role in economic growth and labour employment is fully recognized. It is unanimously recognized that the knowledge, skills and abilities of the human...

In Romania, the Irrigation Water Users’ Associations (IWUA) concept was set up in order to diminish competition, which generates conflicts in relation to the access to and utilization of irrigation water, as well as to facilitate the transfer to end users (farmers) of the administration and...

The integration with the EU changed the national rural policy in Poland, as a fundamental change of the institutional environment took place, and the adjustments of legal regulations and system of support institutions were enforced. The objective of this article is to show how the postaccession...

At present, more than four years after the last reform, under the global crisis pressure, CAP is again facing an adjustment process. Almost at the end of the first programming cycle, the agricultural and rural development policy in Romania has to face a significantly changed context and an...

In recent years, all over the world, the concern for preserving people’s health as well as a healthy environment acquired a permanent dimension, meant to ensure the meeting of present consumption needs without jeopardizing those of the future generations. In the European Union, the development...

The irrigation systems determine the modernization of agricultural activities by promoting technical innovation and emancipation of rural social networks, by inducing and dissipating the organizational behaviours and transformation of rural traditional values.1 The evolution of local power...

Climate modification by the progressive warming of the atmosphere resulting from the concerted action of several factors, both natural and anthropic (emission of increasingly large amounts of greenhouse gases), favours the diminution of precipitations at soil level, corroborated with the...

The present study focuses on the Romania’s high-value agriculture trade pattern and changes subsequent to the EU accession impact, analyzing the dynamics and ranks of the production volumes and values of the trade flows. The main results provide assessments of the Romania’s high-value...

Diminishing country’s vulnerability to risk factors can be promoted by applying a number of policies and carrying out certain actions: legal, economic, environmental, social, etc. The increase of the agricultural productivity, being stimulated by government investments in rural infrastructure,...