The paper presents some analyses based on farm structure survey data, emphasising the land tenure pattern in Romania, and depicted its evolution since the period of negotiations, trying to assess the accession impact on the utilized agricultural land, mainly the share of leased in land (by...

The paper describes the situation of land market in Romania in the transition period, insisting on legislative restrictions and on practical constraints that led to the slow development of a functional land market, using data from official sources and from a special survey dedicated to the...

The scientific approach to the two novatory concepts – the Ecological Footprint and the Biocapacity – as a premiere in the Romanian agrarian economy research, starts from the identification of the main reasons why the above-mentioned concepts gained in methodological consistency and...

The paper presents the main modalities and solutions by which agriculture and rural development can represent factors of economic-financial crisis shock attenuation and resuming economic growth. It is without doubt that the main modality to increase agriculture contribution to the general...

Agricultural contribution to GDP in Malaysia has been declining since 1970. The usages of agricultural land are also gradually decreasing. Even within the total agricultural area, most of the land has been used for industrial crops, and the ratio between industrial crops and food crops is...

The article aims to capture the main effects subsequent to Romania’s accession to UE-27 and integration in the common market, upon the external performances of the agricultural products. The analysis comprised both the evolution and structure of the commercial flows, determinant factors of the...

The new rural paradigm requires important changes in how policies are conceived and implemented to include a cross-cutting and multi-level governance approach. Designing rural development policy for different communities or territories requires the pooling of knowledge held by a wide variety of...

The paper presents the evolution of the agricultural sector in the South Muntenia region in the period 2000-2006, highlighting the characteristics of this sector, which is very important for the economy of the region. The paper reveals the contribution of the agricultural sector to the regional...

The paper starts from the theoretical premise that the business environment of the operators from the agri-food economy is, greater influenced by the behaviour of certain essential macro-economic variables of the market economies. For this purpose, our methodological approach investigates the...

The paper intends to make an analysis at regional level in the South-East Region of the country in order to determine the present situation of agriculture in this region compared to the whole country. The paper investigates the crop structure, the irrigated area and the number of irrigation...