EU expansion to 27 Member States has generate challenges in terms of its competitiveness and internal cohesion. The already existing disparities between the Member States and among their regions have deepened. These disparities are generated by the structural deficiencies in key factors of...

Competitiveness increase has become a primordial framework of the social and economic development strategies of most world countries (mainly the most developed ones) over the last decades. The vigorous boost of the contemporary phenomenon of globalization, which has widened the global area of...

Because modern sophistication in the trade, transport, handling, blending and distribution system that makes the feed to reach farmers in the formula "just in time" protein sources are now in difficulty. The paper follows two main objectives: to understand farmers’ perception of safety and...