Economic valuation methods have already been used abroad successfully for solving above all local and nation-wide problems in rural (and also urban) areas with incorporated multifunctional natural and cultural goods, in a sense of their cultural, recreational, educational, ecological,...

The paper analyses the advantages and weakpoints of cooperatives, especially in agriculture, as they are identified by the contemporary cooperative theory. The theoretical findings are connected with the comparative survey of recent developments of the cooperative law, where the draft new model...

Multifunctional role of agriculture and its importance in main strategic documents and implemental measures of agrarian policy in Slovenia in the period from passing and enforcement of the Strategy of Slovenian Agriculture to Slovenia’s accession to the European Union was analysed. Qualitative...

This paper deals with reconsidering the reliability of the results obtained in the input-output analysis of water consumption by Hristov et al. (2012) due to uncertainty integrated in the data. The imprecision and uncertainty is studied within a workable fuzzy environment introduced by Beynon et...

We analysed the situation, trends, degree of processing and export competitiveness of agro-food products in Slovenia's international trade in period 2002 - 2007. We used statistical data according to the combined nomenclature of the customs tariff, where agro-food products are classified in the...

In the paper we present applications of a qualitative multi-attribute modelling method DEX for decision support about the introduction and use of geneticallymodified organisms (GMO) for food and feed. In three 5th and 6th Framework Programme European projects, we have developed a number of...