Economic valuation methods have already been used abroad successfully for solving above all local and nation-wide problems in rural (and also urban) areas with incorporated multifunctional natural and cultural goods, in a sense of their cultural, recreational, educational, ecological,...

European Union (EU) programs envisage local strategies of development as a crucial element for development. EU funds can be supplemented and cannot be the only source of financing of local development. EU policies can have substantial impact on local development particularly in peripheral/less...

The paper analyses the advantages and weakpoints of cooperatives, especially in agriculture, as they are identified by the contemporary cooperative theory. The theoretical findings are connected with the comparative survey of recent developments of the cooperative law, where the draft new model...

During the harmonization of Slovene legislation with legislation of European Union new categories of milk were set. Therefore the percentage of milk fat in some types of liquid milk products had to be changed. The intention of our research was to find out whether consumers know the content of...

Developed countries have been researching food expenditure patterns of population for a longer period of time. They found out that importance of food away from home (FAFH) was growing. The latter was mostly a result of development or influence of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of...

Generic promotion, financed by mandatory assessments from producers, is often an instrument used by the agricultural policy in order to further the demand and to broaden the market of agricultural products. The generic promotion generates also some legal problems. The first among them is the...