This paper is concerned with environmental impacts in Russia, focusing in particular on agriculturally induced environmental impacts. First it discusses the current environmental situation in Russia. The paper provides an overview of Russia, including a description of its geographical and...

This paper is a first attempt to analyze whether convergence of food consumption between Eastern and Western Europe since the beginning of transition can be detected. The study refers to the 10 EU-associated Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) and the EU-15. If convergence is a fact,...

The economic changes during transition involved a shift away from the planned foreign trade organization within the council for mutual economic assistance. Following a phase of farreaching trade policy liberalization, the agricultural sector in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC)...

This paper analyzes agricultural trade developments in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) since the beginning of the transformation process, and estimates CEEC agricultural trade potentials. The competitiveness of the agricultural sector as a whole is quantified using revealed...

Over the last 7 years, the transformation process has led to drastic changes in the structure of the Bulgarian agricultural sector, and especially to a dramatic fall in milk production. Hence results the great importance of studies that analyse the general conditions of the agrarian sector as...

The food industry is one of the most important sectors in the Latvian economy. However, due to its close links to agriculture, the structural crisis in the processing sector is the main obstacle to increasing output, productivity and profitability in the entire agricultural sector. Based on the...

Der Transformationsprozeß der vergangenen Jahre führte in der bulgarischen Landwirtschaft zu einschneidenden Strukturveränderungen und besonders im Bereich der Milchproduktion zu drastischen Produktionsrückgängen. In diesem Zusammenhang kommen Analysen der ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen im...

Ziel der Analyse zu den Rechtsformen landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen war es, Kenntnisse darüber zu gewinnen, welche Rechtsformen sich im Transformationsprozeß herausgebildet haben, welchen Umfang sie einnehmen, durch welche Merkmale sie gekennzeichnet sind und ob die Besteuerung Einfluß auf...

Presently Russia is experiencing the complicated process of transforming the economic system of central planning into a socially oriented market economy. Of great importance for the success of this process is the institutional reshaping of the agricultural sector, particularly the privatisation...

This paper is concerned with environmental impacts in Russia, focusing in particular on agriculturally induced environmental impacts. First it discusses the current environmental situation in Russia. The paper provides an overview of Russia, including a description of its geographical and...