The paper presents the main modalities and solutions by which agriculture and rural development can represent factors of economic-financial crisis shock attenuation and resuming economic growth. It is without doubt that the main modality to increase agriculture contribution to the general...

Romania’s agri-food and sustainable rural development strategy, consensual from the political point of view, should be the output of an objective scientific analysis of the agricultural and forestry potential, and adapted, endorsed and supported by all the political and technocratic forces,...

The present paper is based on the idea according to which the present situation of the Romanian agriculture, its development level and the development of rural area in its most part, are largely determined by Romania’s agrarian structure. The paper investigates Romania’s current agrarian...

Romania, with a total area of 238,000 km2 and a population of over 21 million inhabitants, accounts for 6% of the total area of the European Union and 4% of its population. Yet investments and competitiveness need to be improved, so that Romania can speed up economic growth and reach the...

The distribution of financial resources for funding agriculture and rural development programs represents one of the main components of the Common Agricultural Policy. The financial mechanisms and the criteria for public funds allocation for direct payments in agriculture are the object of some...

The design of the territorial innovation strategies is based on the local development of the patrimony, valorized as main resource. In this perspective, the rural areas can be analyzed as territories in dynamics, defined by the specific qualities, territorial resources and the existing...

Rural development and modernization implicitly became the main practical and theoretical issues of the local rural communities. In general, the variants of development patterns that are envisaged start from the present characteristics of the rural area, focusing upon the modernization of...

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the competitiveness of the SIRIUS1 Irrigation Project in the Cazasu Rural Area – North Braila Terrace. SIRIUS aims to establish innovative and new service capacities for the irrigation water management user community with the vision of bridging and...

After December 1989, the Romanian government made efforts to re-establish a coherent legal and institutional framework for private rights in land but the whole process has been characterized by instability, incoherence and unjustified delays. The restitution of land properties in private...

Getting people aware – at individual and local level – of the ecosystem benefits and services is a complex phenomenon that starts with the evaluation of the existing natural heritage by the inhabitants and ends with the institutionalization of valorization through the establishment of rural...