In the article, some spatial problems in agriculture are presented on some typical cases. Agriculture is just one of the activities performed in rural areas nowadays, although it still uses a predominant part of space and has important influence on all other aspects of life and work in rural...

We analyse the determinants of off-farm labour participation of farmers, an issue relevant in view of the agricultural sector coping with increasing productivity and in terms of rural development. We apply a farm-household theoretical model. The data for the empirical analysis are a 5 year...

The main goal of this paper is to develop a methodology to quantitatively assess resilience to food insecurity. The developed methodology is applied to Nicaraguan rural households hit by Mitch Hurricane in 1999. The results show that the proposed resilience index is a good predictor of...

During the last decade, the Niger’s population has been affected by the food crisis (2001, 2004-2005, 2008, 2010-2011). Each year, she is subjected to many structural and temporary shocks. The structural shocks are caused by the chronicle difficulties (income) while the temporary shocks are...

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...

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...

Accession to the European Union has triggered substantial changes in the business environment of Slovenian food processing industry which intensified restructuring processes and increased pressures to the business performance of the sector. The article analyses key economic indicators during the...