This report contributes to the literature by estimating farm-level impacts of PO membership, as well the efficiency of support granted to POs under the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP). We employ the propensity score matching and difference in differences (PSM-DID) approach, using 939...

Recent technological advances both on the farm and in the lab have made farming more independent form nature than ever before. Arguably, the new and accessible technologies are helping us to better understand and "manage" nature and thus for first time in history farming is becoming as any other...

This paper examines determinants of the agrarian structure in transition economies with an emphasis on the role of rural households’ human capital. Farm restructuring has resulted in a broad range of farm types, such as co-operatives, partnerships, individual farms and combinations of them. In...

The purpose of this paper is to put into an appropriate theoretical frame the rural development issues in enlarging Europe and to analyse the rural development perspectives in the European Union (EU) accession countries. Based on comparisons of developments in the Common Agricultural Policy...