The increasing importance of measures under the so called "second pillar" of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union raises new challenges to decision-makers. The definition and operationalisation of goals as well as the implementation of concrete measures is a complex task....

Financing agri-environmental programmes in the European Union (EU) takes place in a multi-level system with mixed co-financing and shared financial responsibilities. In this paper we analyse how co-financing influences policy-making in regions taking the case of the agri-environmental programme...

Policies for rural areas have become an important but complex policy field in the European Union`s Common Agricultural Policy. The purpose of this paper is to report on a methodological approach pursued to model the allocation of EAFRD (European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development) funds in...

The paper provides a methodology which is suitable for the analysis of the social cost of disease and the benefits and cost of health intervention by integrating public health analysis and economics. The approach developed in the paper is applied to food-borne diarrhea in Rwanda. The results...

The consumer behaviour and their preferences in purchasing of food products in Slovenia are analysed. The empirical analysis is based on in-depth survey evidence. It analyses the consumer behaviour regarding socio-economic and demographic factors. The summary statistics show that the consumers...

This paper presents development of a model for arrangement of indirect costs in wine production with an aim to gain better information for decision making. Wine producing companies face with constantly growing share of indirect costs in comparison to all other costs. Consequently the importance...

The research studies structural changes in agriculture in the Škofja Loka region based on an empirical analysis of income diversification in a sample of agricultural households (AHs) in 2001 and 2006. The analysis was conducted from three points of view: for the entire sample of AHs, according...