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Transition and EU Integration of Bulgarian Agriculture - Impacts for Environment and Sustainability
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2007
Transaction Costs Economics, and assess efficiency of diverse market, private and public modes for environmental governance. The … low frequency and appropriability of environment related transactions, all they are responsible for failure of market and … private modes of environmental governance. Needs for public intervention has not been met by effective Government, community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051014
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Post-Communist Transition in Bulgaria - Implications for Development of Agricultural Specialization and Farming Structures
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2015
Bulgaria. Firstly, it presents the specific Bulgarian model for farming transformation characterizing with restitution of …, market and behavioral uncertainty; high assets specificity and dependency; lack of managerial experience; low incentives for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051043
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Agri-Environmental Policies in a Transition Economy : Using a Choice Experiment to Value Agricultural Biodiversity on Hungarian Small Farms
Birol, Ekin; Gyovai, Ágnes; Smale, Melinda - 2014
Agricultural biodiversity is a crucial environmental resource. Much of the agricultural biodiversity remaining today is found on the semi-subsistence farms of poorer countries and on the small-scale farms and home gardens of more industrialised nations. The traditional Hungarian home gardens,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072452
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Off-Farm Labor Supply and Labor Markets in Rapidly Changing Circumstances : Bulgaria During Transition
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza D.; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2012
This study examines off-farm labor supply in the rapidly changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. In doing so … characterized by chronic excess supply in the off-farm labor market and/or rapidly changing circumstances. In particular, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171830
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Lessons from Bulgarian Transition for Environmental Governance in Central Asia
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2014
-activities. Firstly, we assess efficiency of market, private and public modes in Bulgarian agriculture and identity major environmental …, financing, partnership with private sector) and enhance direct public involvement is environmental preservation and improvement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221722
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Cuba : agricultural transition and food security in a global perspective
Riera, Olivia; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015
This paper reviews the situation in the agricultural sector and food security in Cuba and in particular the transformations that have (not) taken place since 1990. We compare the Cuban transition with transitions in other "transition countries" and show that Cuba does not fit easily in one of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010474743
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Cuba : Agricultural Transition and Food Security in a Global Perspective
Riera, Olivia - 2015
This paper reviews the situation in the agricultural sector and food security in Cuba and in particular the transformations that have (not) taken place since 1990. We compare the Cuban transition with transitions in other “transition countries” and show that Cuba does not fit easily in one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028449
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Crop diversification, agricultural transition and farm income growth : evidence from Eastern India
Basantaray, Amit Kumar; Paltasingh, Kirtti Ranjan; … - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 77 (2022) 3, pp. 55-65
This paper examines the role of crop diversification in agricultural transition towards high-value crops as well as farm income growth in Odisha, Eastern India. The empirical analysis reveals some crucial facts: first, a stagnant and relatively low level of crop diversification in Odisha...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287106
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The Development of the Rural Non-Farm Economy in Developing Countries and Transition Economies : Key Emerging and Conceptual Issues
Davis, Junior R.; Bezemer, D.J - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to outline key emerging and conceptual issues in the development of the rural non-farm economy in less developed countries (LDCs) and transition economies. It is based on a conceptual framework where the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) is discussed as being either part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066060
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Governing the Post-Socialist Transitional Commons : A Case from Rural China
Qiao, Shitong - 2014
When the collective declines, who manages the collective-owned land? When the socialist state fails, who possesses the state-owned river? This Article concerns the governance of land and natural resources that are still owned by collectives or the state in rural China. No effective community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180400