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...

The problem of determining the competitiveness of various economic organizations is among the most topical academic and practical issues from the emergence of economics science to the present day. It is particularly important for the agricultural sector, which is characterized by many...

Proceedings of China-Bulgaria Rural Revitalization Development Cooperation Forum, hold on 23 April, 2018, in Sofia. Chapters give a deep insights on diverse issues associated with agrarian and rural development in Bulgaria and China.

This book is a first attempt to make a comprehensive comparative analysis of agricultural policies in Bulgaria and Vietnam. Twenty year experience in reforming the agrarian sectors in both countries gives an extraordinary opportunity to (re)assess agrarian policies, their impacts and...

On March 11, 2011 the strongest ever recorded in Japan earthquake occurred which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in one of the world’s largest nuclear plant stations. The triple disaster has been having immense impacts on people’s life, health and property, social...

There are huge differences in understandings and assessments of agrarian governance among scholars, practitioners, and official and business documents. The goal of the article is to adapt the interdisciplinary methodology of the New Institutional Economics and to propose an adequate definition...

There are few publications on various impacts of Fukushima nuclear disaster on agri-food sector in Japan in English. Moreover, due to the scale of contamination and affected agents, impact’s multiplicities and evolution, spillovers, and long time horizon, and the lack of “full” information...

On March 11, 2011, the strongest ever recorded in Japan earthquake occurred which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima nuclear plant. The latter was a “manmade” disaster having immense impacts on people’s life, health, and property, infrastructure, supply...

The paper presents findings of a large study on socio-economic impacts of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. It contains fourteen parts: introduction with the framework of analysis; a brief description of events and...