This article analyses the impact of off-farm employment on the process of commercialisation of agriculture in Romania. The descriptive and correlation analysis reveals the existence of an important relationship between off-farm employment and agricultural sales. High off-farm employment is...

Finding pathways to enhance the resilience of farming systems (FSs) in Europe is key, given the increasing challenges threatening them. FSs are complex socio-ecological systems in which social and ecological components are strongly linked. Social actors have the capacity to shape the FSs’...

The common West European problems are the following: population ageing and proportional (and often also absolute) decline of the labour force. These deficits are partially covered by the East-West migration flows for work, but these labour force movements generate similar problems on the labour...

The study "Land ownership and land market functionality in the mountain areas - the case study of Romania " is a part of a larger research work on the sustainable rural development in the mountain area Muscel in Romania, from a multi criteria perspective, for the formulation of feasible...

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...