Sustainable development of the Ukrainian agrarian sector: perspectives and challenges

Abstract

Sustainable development of the Ukrainian economy is rather complicated, extraordinary and controversial task for Ukraine. By fulfilling the obligations assumed by the world community to implement the main provisions of sustainable development, Ukraine undergoes comprehensive structural transformations, which undoubtedly have a significant impact on the development of its agrarian sector. Administrative and territorial reform is one of the major structural changes, which is taking place at the present time and has a direct impact on the agrarian sector development. The research is aimed at deepening the methodological principles for predicting the effectiveness of new institutes and rules caused by agrarian and structural transformations in the national economy, as well as substantiating the cluster model of sustainable development of the agrarian sector.The provision of the economic theory of “path dependence” is the methodological basis of the research. In the article, based on a combination of theoretical and empirical methods, the transformation of the state of the socio-economic system, which is conditioned by the introduction of a new rule in implementing the reforms, is researched. Under these conditions, the effect of hysteresis may arise – the new rule can fall into the institutional trap and stay in it even when perturbations often disappear.Given the analysis of the current implementation of the sustainable development model in the agrarian sector, the authors focus on combining the efforts of management bodies, socially responsible business and rural population and substantiate the need to improve the system of functional environment, which should be based on the cluster concept of development. It is precisely the cluster structure that will ensure the effectiveness of production relations between market agents, minimize the emergence of ineffective institutions and reduce the likelihood of institutional traps in the future.

Econometric Analysis of Sustainable National Economy Development

“…In order to describe the dynamics of the investment, it is possible to propose the model described by the function (2).…”

“…The problems of economic growth, factors that form it and ensure the national economy sustainable development attract more and more attention. The problems of sustainable development are traditionally studied with defining the economic, environmental and social determinants [1][2][3][4][5]. Concerning the relationship between the economic and environmental components, one of the models was proposed by Simon Kuznets, according to which there exists the relationship between the income (economic growth) and environmental pollution, which is of nonlinear naturea form of reversed parabolic curve.…”

Evolution of Agrarian Research and Development in Bulgaria During Country’s EU Membership

“…In other EU and non-EU countries there have been carried profound analyses of the state and evolution of agrarian research and development systems (Anandajayasekeram and Gebremedhin, 2009;Antle et al, 2017;Chartier et al, 2015;FAO, 2019;Touzard et al, 2015;Mykhailova et al, 2018;Özçatalbaş, 2017;USDA, 2019;Weißhuhn, 2018;World Bank, 2006;Virmani, 2013). However, in Bulgaria with very few exceptions (Башев и Михайлова, 2019;Bachev and Labonne, 2000;Bachev and Mihailova, 2019) there are no comprehensive studies on the state and evolution of agrarian research and development activity before and since the accession of the country to EU in 2007.…”

Ukrainian Agricultural Contribution to the World Food Security: Economic Problems and Prospects

“…Sustainable development of agrarian sector belongs to the prime themes of the contemporary scientific research. In particular, Mykhailova et al (2018) shaped necessary institutional transformations in Ukrainian agriculture. Kolesnyk et al (2018) focused on providing its ecological, productive, economical, social, intellectual-innovating, and globally integrative features.…”