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Document de conférence
Food quality research of organic animal products: future research needs and implications for standards
All stakeholders in the organic livestock food chain have different priorities with respect to food quality. Stakeholders include producers, wholesalers, retailers, advisory bodies, certification groups, regulatory and inspection groups (such as environmental health officers & food microbiologists) and the consumer. Due to the wide range in requirements by these different...
2005 - Sustaining Animal Health and Food Safety in Organic Farming (SAFO)
Document de conférence
Opportunities for Hungarian organic goat milk producers
While the level of consumption of organic food is markedly lower in Hungary than in many other European countries, there is an increasing trend among consumers to look for functional and ethically and environmentally sustainable food. This potentially opens up new perspectives for the organic food producers who currently are...
Hungary
2005 - Sustaining Animal Health and Food Safety in Organic Farming (SAFO)
Document de conférence
Opportunities for the Hungarian organic sheep and deer farmer
Nearly 1,600 organic farming enterprises are inspected by the Hungarian organic inspection authority, Biokontroll Hungária Kht.. Only 160 of these farms keep livestock. Cattle are the most common species, but the percentage of sheep is also significant (Biokontroll Hungária Kht., 2004). The sheep are generally kept in extensive circumstances, on...
Hungary
2005 - Sustaining Animal Health and Food Safety in Organic Farming (SAFO)
Article
Social Aspects of Agricultural Employment in the Czech Republic
Economic reforms launched in the early 1990s have significantly affected Czech agriculture for more than a decade. First was the reform of property rights to land, which was considered an underlying condition for the effective functioning of a market economy. The reform was built upon three principals: restitution of land...
Czechia
2004
Article
Wine, Sand and Socialism: Some Enduring Effects of Hungary’s ‘Flexible’ Model of Collectivization
This paper presents an historical account of the significance of wine production in a region of south-central Hungary, with a particular focus on the transformations accomplished under socialism and the problems faced by this branch of the rural economy in the post socialist years. Drawing on his own and other...
Hungary
2004
Article
The Role of Agriculture in Central and Eastern European Rural Development: An Overview
Building on existing models for the role of agriculture in industrialized and developing countries, this chapter examines a number of critical aspects of agriculture’s role in Central and Eastern European (CEE) rural development. By reviewing the contributions of this proceedings volume, we focus on the perspectives of small farms, rural...
2004 - Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO)
Article
Social Capital in Rural Areas of Latvia within the Context of Public Organizations
This study targets social capital development possibilities in the rural territories of Latvia, and focuses on its inhabitants' public activities. Private property was restored more than 10 years ago, and since then the number of public organisations has sharply increased. These organisations offer the chance to solve several problems. The...
Latvia
2004
Article
Institutional Factors Influencing Agricultural Sales of the Individual Farmers in Romania
The paper analyses the impact of institutional factors on the agricultural sales of the individual farmers in Romania. The analysis relies on the Agricultural Household Survey conducted in 15 villages in 2003 in Romania and on interviews with the agricultural engineers at the village level. The study uses the social...
Romania
2004
Article
Agricultural Policy and Rural Development: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects
The paper discusses the impact of industrialized countries' agricultural policy on the development of rural areas, with special reference to the CAP. Against the background of the principles of rural development policy it analyses effects on employment and environmental objectives in rural areas. The impact of agricultural market policies is...
2004
Article
Subsistence Farming and Rural Unemployment – the Case of Slovakia
This paper aim is to examine various assumptions referring to the increase of subsistence farming in Slovakia during the transformation period. Based on statistical data from small landholdings and individual, non-registered farms in various regions of the country (districts with high and low unemployment, eastern and northern versus western and...
Slovakia
2004 - Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Central and Eastern Europe
Article
Rural Development in Albania and the Role of Agriculture: A Case Study in the Prefecture of Elbasan
The objective of the paper is to analyse the evolution and strategies of Albanian farms in order to understand the process of adapting to the market economy, to outline the role of agriculture in the country's socio-economic development and to identify future strategies of public policies in rural areas. The...
Albania
2004 - Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Central and Eastern Europe
Article
Agriculture in Southeastern Poland – Main Problems of the Systemic Transformation Process
For Poland, the last decade of the 20th century was a time of intensive social, political and economic change. Poland was confronted with the necessity of quick but deep changes in the economy, as well as in state administration and the functioning of newly-established self-government structures. As a result of...
Poland
2004 - Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Central and Eastern Europe
Article
Factor Market Imperfections and Polarization of Agrarian Structures in Central And Eastern Europe
During the past decade and a half considerable effort has been put into agricultural restructuring in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) that are undergoing transition to a market economy. The last decade has also coincided with considerable increase in inequality in all transition economies. The fall in...
2004 - Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Central and Eastern Europe
Article
Agricultural Credit Market in Poland – Experiences in the Market Economy
In this paper, the processes of adapting to the market economy, which the agricultural credit market in Poland underwent during the 1990-2003 period, is examined. Under conditions of low agricultural income and the necessity of broad and deep restructuring in Polish agriculture, the credit market, as an external source of...
Poland
2004
Ouvrage
Livestock Farming Systems in Central and Eastern Europe
During the 1990’s transition period for Eastern Europe, the European Association for Animal production (EAAP) carried out numerous activities in support of restructuring the animal production sector in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). This resulted in a large number of publications on animal production system and issues related...
2003
Article de revue spécialisée
The Market Potential and Patterns of Contemporary Agriculture in Romania's North-western Plain
Romanian Agriculture went through major transformations after the political changes of December 1989, due especially to the structural reorganization of land ownership. Agrarian reform started in 1990 with the liquidation of the socialist cooperatives and regulated by the new land ownership law (No. 18/1991), along with a whole series of...
Romania
2003 - Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe
Article de revue spécialisée
Subsistence Farming in Bulgaria: Between Tradition and Market Requirements
Subsistence agriculture is a phenomenon that is presently encountered not only in developing countries, but also in the Central and Eastern European transition countries (CEECs). The various land reforms implemented in Eastern Europe have led to differences in the land tenure and farming systems and have influenced the access to...
Bulgaria
2003 - Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe
Article
Fishing, Families, and the Survival of Artisanal Boat-Ownership in the Bigouden Region of France
Small-scale, family fishing enterprises manage to persist despite the difficult economic and ecological changes and disruptions they almost constantly have experienced during the past several decades. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic and historical research in the Bigouden region of France, this paper asks why and how family-based fishing enterprises continue in...
France
2003 - MAST 2003
Document de conférence
Risk and De-Collectivisation: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Risk and De-Collectivisation: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Bezemer, D. J. (2002), Proceedings of 2002 International Congress, August 28-31, 2002, Zaragoza, Spain
The paper analyses the behavior of family farms socialist-style farms in the presence of risk, given the typical post-socialist environment in the Czech Republic.
http://purl.umn.edu/24888
Czechia
2002
Article
Farm Transformation and Restructuring in Czech Agriculture – Ten Years After
Farm Transformation and Restructuring in Czech Agriculture – Ten Years After
Doucha, T., Divila, E., Trávníček, Z., (2002) 13th International Farm Management Congress, July 7-12, 2002, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
The development of the farms structure in the Czech Republic can be found for example in the article written by Doucha, Divila...
Czechia
2002
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