This paper presents the importance of supporting agriculture in Romania in the current financial and economic crisis, focusing on the difficult situation in which the agricultural sector is today. Agricultural direct support payments of CAP Pillar I is a great opportunity to improve the current...

One of the key elements for achieving sustainable development in the Romanian rural areas is investing in education, which, in a long term approach, will lead to the formation of farmers able to face the challenges of the competitive European and international markets. This paper aims to...

The European Union enlargement to 27 Member States in the year 2007 changed the European agricultural reality, which at present includes a wide range of agriculture types, with large development gaps between the rural areas. Taking into consideration this reality, reforming the Common...