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 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...

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...

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...

In Romania, due to weather conditions, irrigation is of utmost importance for the normal development of crops. The infrastructure serving the irrigation systems, mostly designed in the period of command economy, has been adapted to the new land operation structure resulting from the process of...

The transition towards an economy based on the market principles represents a period of deep changes, starting from redefining the development paradigms, continuing with resetting the whole economic and social system into the new conceptual frameworks, to end with the transformation of this new...

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 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...

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the competitiveness of the SIRIUS1 Irrigation Project in the Cazasu Rural Area – North Braila Terrace. SIRIUS aims to establish innovative and new service capacities for the irrigation water management user community with the vision of bridging and...