There are intense debates about the importance and quality of agri-food governance, which have not been passed in Bulgaria. There is no suitable translation for governance in the Bulgarian language, and many inaccurate terms are used such as managing, management, leadership, directing,...

The achievements of the interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics are adapted and a holistic approach to the definition, classification, evaluation and improvement of contracts and contractual relations is justified. A critical analysis of the modern development of the economics of contracts...

The paper presents the results of a large-scale study on the structure, factors, and evolution of contractual relations of Bulgarian farms, including the management of the supply of natural, material, biological, financial, and human resources, short-term assets, services, innovations, risk...

Through a large-scale representative survey of farm managers, the main types of contractual and other forms of governance applied by Bulgarian farms in the supply of the necessary land and water for irrigation, labor, services, short-term and long-term assets and innovations, finance, in risk...

A need to include “the fourth” Governance pillar in the concept for understanding and the assessment system of (overall and) agrarian sustainability is increasingly justified in academic literature and finds place in the frameworks of government, international, private, etc. organizations....

This study tries to assess the governance sustainability of Bulgarian agriculture at national, sectoral, ecosystem, and farming level. Multiple Principles, Criteria and Indicators assessment of the Governance sustainability of Bulgarian agriculture indicates that the Overall Governance...

The study is a report from the second stage of the research project "Management of agro-ecosystem services", funded by the Agricultural Academy - https://maessbg.alle.bg The approach developed during the first stage for analysis, evaluation and improvement of the management system of the...

Despite its importance and continouing debates, there is still no consensus on what is the competitiveness of farms, how to measure the competitiveness of different organizations in agriculture, what is the absolute and comparative competitiveness of different types of farms, which are the...

This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and assesses the system of governance of agrarian sustainability in Bulgaria. The system of governance of agrarian sustainability is comprehensively analyzed, and the efficiency of institutional environment and diverse market,...

This paper applies interdisciplinary approach and assesses the system of governance and the level of agrarian sustainability in Bulgaria and China. The first part presents a holistic and practically applicable for the contemporary conditions of development of Bulgarian and Chinese agriculture...