This paper presents the results of the first stage of the research project "Structure and Management of Contractual Relations in the Agriculture of Bulgaria", financed by the Agricultural Academy and developed by the Institute of Agrarian Economics. The achievements of the interdisciplinary New...

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 study identifies dominant modes, factors, and efficiency of land and water supply in Bulgarian farms. It incorporates the New Institutional Economics methodology and new representative data collected through a survey of farm managers of different types and locations

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....