Today no country in the world can hope for achieving a sustainable competitiveness of the national economic complex and, consequently, for its bright future, without its successful adaptation to the market management conditions. The article deals with the problems of a respective agrarian sector...

The aim of the article was to analyse the performance relationships between the imperfections of the market allocation connected with the agricultural sector and solutions in agricultural policy conditioned by globalization. The main areas of imperfection are described adverting to their...

Within the context of transition and pasture reform in Central Asian and Caucasian countries our study focuses on the pasture reform in Azerbaijan. The pasture reform in Azerbaijan has received little attention in scientific literature although it displays a rapid emergence of individualised...

Procura-se, neste artigo, destacar toda multiplicidade de interesses que emergem nas comunidades rurais da América Latina em geral, e de três países em particular (Brasil, México e Chile), para que apreender o ambiente local em que as políticas agropecuárias, particularmente as de caráter...

Analisa a experiência com a implementação do Projeto de Crédito Fundiário e Combate à Pobreza Rural (PCF), tomando, como estudo de caso, o Projeto de Assentamento Bom Conselho, no município de Macaíba, estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Resume as principais contribuições teóricas sobre o...

O principal objetivo deste trabalho é o de verificar a importância da política de crédito agrícola, especialmente os créditos de investimento e de custeio, bem como da educação para o produto per capita rural. Juntamente verificamos de forma indireta duas variáveis estruturais...

Numerous national transfer programs around the world are designed with uniform benefit schedules imposed by central governments, but implemented by local governments. The Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia, the second largest safety net in Sub Saharan Africa, is one such program....

In EU Countries in the last decade there has been a reduction of the number of farms, combined with a significant increase in their average size. First response to crisis in EU agriculture is the enhancement the competitiveness of farms in bio-economy issues, i.e. quality: EU farmers must build...

This paper is aimed at discussing the role of institutions in explaining policy outcomes in rural development. After a discussion of the theoretical framework, we have proposed a model to understand and analysing why bad policies persist over time and what are the effects on policy institutions...

The paper analyses the impact of household attrition in the Northern Uganda Survey panel of 2004 and 2008. These surveys were designed to evaluate the performance of the first phase of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF). The first survey was conducted in 2004 when the region faced...