The Common Agricultural Policy is the basis for ensuring food security, the sustainable use of natural resources and the balanced development of rural areas in the Member States of the European Union. The three paths of the CAP through which these objectives are achieved are: direct payments,...

Agriculture is a risky and often expensive activity, where due to unpredictable weather conditions, crops may suffer and implicitly farm yields and incomes that may be significantly affected. The paper presents the main sources of subsidies used in agriculture, as well as the role they played in...

Managed grasslands contribute in a number of ways to the biodiversity of European agricultural landscapes and provide a wide range of ecosystem services that are also of socio-economic value. Against the background of a rapid biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes, increasing attention is...

In 2009, the Thai government implemented a price insurance scheme for rice farmers. The program, which was abandoned after only one year, added to the incomes of registered farmers a non-negative but stochastic amount that was decoupled from farmers' agricultural activities. A rich panel data...

The European Union's Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced auctioning as a new instrument for granting agri-environmental payments and awarding conservation contracts for the recent multi-annual budgetary plan....

The European Union's Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced promising changes in rewarding farmers by the implementation of conservation auctions and granting farmers' transaction costs. The...

Rural indebtedness and dependence on private moneylenders is an age-old problem in India. For more than 100 years now, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural areas particularly to assist in agricultural operations....

Every year the European Union grants a financial support to the agricultural sector of over 47 billion Euro, thus contributing to the completion of specific goals of the Common Agricultural Policy. The distribution of that EU funding towards the farmers from the member states is done according...