Subsistence Farming, Incomes, and Agricultural Livelihoods in the New Member States of the European Union

Davidova, Sophia; Fredriksson, L.; Gorton, Matthew; Mishev, Plamen; Petrovici, Dan Alex

doi:10.1068/c1195r

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“…This is known to be less harmful to biodiversity than conventional agriculture (Bengtsson et al 2005;Hole et al 2005), would be much more compatible with high nature value farmland (Kuemmerle et al 2009) and would not cause difficulties with respect to Natura 2000 regulations. In addition, Southern Transylvania most likely still exhibits unused potential to develop rural enterprises of greater value, such as agroenvironmental tourism or specialty foods (Davidova et al 2012). To realize this potential, local innovation capacity needs to be fostered.…”

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“…Contrary to the EU-15 member states, the agricultural sector in Romania is largely dominated by subsistence and semisubsistence farming (Davidova et al 2012), resulting in part * Correspondence: Friederike Mikulcak e-mail: mikulcak@ leuphana.de from a profound land restitution process after the collapse of communism in 1989 (Stringer et al 2009;Vidican 2009). At the time of Romania's accession to the EU, more than 2.5 million people were employed in agriculture, with the average working farm area being only 3.2 ha (Gorton et al 2009).…”

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Integrating rural development and biodiversity conservation in Central Romania

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SUMMARYUnlike most parts of the European Union (EU), Southern Transylvania (Central Romania) is characterized by an exceptionally high level of farmland biodiversity. This results from traditional small-scale farming methods that have maintained extensive areas of high nature value farmland. Following the post-socialist transition, Southern Transylvania faces serious challenges such as under-employment and rural population decline, which put traditional farming at risk. With Romania's accession to the EU in 2007, Southern Transylvania became part of a complex multi-level governance system that in principle provides mechanisms to balance biodiversity conservation and rural development. To this end, the most important instruments are the 'Natura 2000' network of protected areas and EU rural development policy. Structured questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with town hall representatives from 30 villages in Southern Transylvania and local EU experts revealed that EU policies are often poorly aligned with local conditions. To date, the implementation of EU rural development policy is strongly focused on economic development, with biodiversity conservation being of little concern. Moreover, relevant EU funding opportunities are poorly communicated. Bridging organizations should be strengthened to foster the implementation of a rural development strategy that integrates local needs and biodiversity conservation.

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“…(2009), Fritzsch et al. (2011), and Davidova et al. (2012) acknowledged this heterogeneity and employed cluster analysis to produce a typology of semi‐subsistence farmers.…”

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A Quantile Regression Analysis of the Effect of Farmers’ Attitudes and Perceptions on Market Participation

Kostov¹,

Davidova²

2012

J Agricultural Economics

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The objective of this study is to investigate the subjective determinants of farmers’ participation in output markets in five EU New Member States (NMS) characterised by large semi‐subsistence sectors. It employs quantile regression to model market participation reflecting the heterogeneity amongst farmers. The study also uses the Bayesian adaptive lasso to simultaneously select important covariates and estimate the corresponding quantile regression models. The empirical results show that only two variables affect all quantiles, while their effect varies across quantiles. Some of the remaining variables affect the share of output sold at the lower quantiles (i.e. for subsistence‐ and semi‐subsistence‐oriented farmers) only, whereas other variables are only significant at the upper quantiles (i.e. for more commercially oriented farms). Advisory services, and particularly agricultural business advice, and information and advice on markets and prices can facilitate the market participation of subsistence‐oriented farms.

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“…A 2012 study in five new EU member states suggested that the largest cluster continues to be formed by the poorest households with "low natural, physical, and social capital, operating small-scale and undercapitalized farms with little nonagricultural income" (Davidova et al, 2012). The same study concluded that the specific needs of these poor subsistence farmers are not met by instruments of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (Davidova et al, 2012). The CAP represents the EU's most important common policy, taking also a large percentage of the EU's budget (European Commission, 2017).…”

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“…In the CEE region Poland, Romania and Hungary are the principal agricultural producers (Csaki and Jambor, 2009). In most cases, the return of land to private ownership in CEE countries has led to the creation of small semi-subsistence holdings (generally < 5 ha in size) and only a few very large industrial farms (Davidova et al, 2012;Sutcliffe 2015). environmental data analyses.…”

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Climate Change Influence on Agriculture and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Central and Eastern European Countries

Kantor

McLean²,

Kantor

2017

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The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus concept has great potential for understanding a region's vulnerability to climate change. This paper examines individual components that form the supporting pillars of the nexus in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. An overview of specific CEE political environments that govern economic and environmental policies are examined to select several domains representing higher risks to society, environment and economies of selected countries, together with evaluation of extant interlinkages between climate change, agriculture and the WEF nexus. While a variety of studies quantify and analyze climate change impacts on water availability, crop yields, yield variability, or alternative energy needed to mitigate global warming effects, this paper shows there is no clear evidence of a nexus-based integration to help manage or mitigate extreme future climate change-related events in the region. The study provides a model for supporting WEF pillars and advances recommendations for consideration of the nexus approach in relation to climate adaptation.

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Subsistence Farming, Incomes, and Agricultural Livelihoods in the New Member States of the European Union

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Cited by 57 publications

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Integrating rural development and biodiversity conservation in Central Romania

Integrating rural development and biodiversity conservation in Central Romania

A Quantile Regression Analysis of the Effect of Farmers’ Attitudes and Perceptions on Market Participation

Climate Change Influence on Agriculture and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Central and Eastern European Countries

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