scholarly journals Technical Efficiency in the Agricultural Business—The Case of Slovakia

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarmila Lazíková ◽  
Zuzana Lazíková ◽  
Ivan Takáč ◽  
Ľubica Rumanovská ◽  
Anna Bandlerová
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Agricultural Business ◽  
Production Diversity

The key element of the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy is sustainable agriculture where the social, economic, and environmental objectives should be fulfilled. This role can fulfill only those agricultural holdings that are effective in the transformation of inputs to outputs, and which do not waste the inputs. Therefore, we analyze the technical efficiency of the agricultural holdings in the Slovak regions, and try to identify the factors that are able to influence the efficiency of agricultural holdings. We can conclude that there are regional disparities in technical efficiency in Slovakia; however, the problem of inefficiency is not typical only for the agricultural holdings in the areas with natural constraints. These regional disparities should be considered when adopting a new political measure to support sustainable agriculture. By the results of econometric models, we find that the agricultural production diversity, the policy of the labor market, and tax policy are the important factors influencing the technical efficiency of the agricultural holdings in Slovakia.

scholarly journals Strategic deployment of riparian buffers and windbreaks in Europe can co-deliver biomass and environmental benefits

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Englund ◽  
Pål Börjesson ◽  
Blas Mola-Yudego ◽  
Göran Berndes ◽  
Ioannis Dimitriou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Riparian Buffers ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Nitrogen Emissions ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Eu Policies

AbstractWithin the scope of the new Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, in coherence with other EU policies, new incentives are developed for farmers to deploy practices that are beneficial for climate, water, soil, air, and biodiversity. Such practices include establishment of multifunctional biomass production systems, designed to reduce environmental impacts while providing biomass for food, feed, bioenergy, and other biobased products. Here, we model three scenarios of large-scale deployment for two such systems, riparian buffers and windbreaks, across over 81,000 landscapes in Europe, and quantify the corresponding areas, biomass output, and environmental benefits. The results show that these systems can effectively reduce nitrogen emissions to water and soil loss by wind erosion, while simultaneously providing substantial environmental co-benefits, having limited negative effects on current agricultural production. This kind of beneficial land-use change using strategic perennialization is important for meeting environmental objectives while advancing towards a sustainable bioeconomy.

scholarly journals Conceptions regarding sustainable agriculture – the national sustainable development strategy

2006 ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
Andrea Gáthy
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Eu

The task of the national sustainable development strategy is to provide a long term conception for the economy and society, so that this might function and develop in harmony with the environment. Creating the conditions for sustainable agricultural production requires the elaboration and implementation of long-term programs spanning generations. The objective is to find a compromise between the conceptions appearing in the long-term and the short-term programs.In Hungary, several principles, conceptions and proposals have been suggested regarding sustainable agriculture. In the present study, I intend to systematize the above mentioned principles and conceptions, and compare them to the conceptions regarding agriculture in the national strategies of the EU member states. Furthermore, I examine to what extent the agricultural policy of the European Union supports the conceptions regarding agriculture in the strategies. This topic deserves special attention, as the Hungarian national sustainable development strategy is being prepared and is supposed to be finished by the end of 2005.

La necesidad de reformar la legislación sobre contratación pública para luchar contra la corrupción: las obligaciones que nos llegan desde Europa

2016 ◽  
pp. 77-113
Author(s):  
Teresa MEDINA ARNÁIZ
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Final Sentence ◽  
International Conventions

LABURPENA: Ustelkeria arazo larria da eta eragin txarra du herrialde baten ekonomia, politika eta gizarte garapenean. Estatuetako mugak gainditu dituenez, estatu guztien kezka da. Hori dela eta, estatuen barruko araudiekin batera, azken urteotan nazioarteko hitzarmenak ugaldu dira jarrera ustelei aurrea hartzeko eta horiek jazartzeko. Ildo horretatik ere doaz Europako Batasuna eta estatu kideak, eta fronte desberdinetatik, ustelkeriaren aurkako politika globala ari dira garatzen. Jarduketa eremu bat kontratazio publikoa da, sektore horretan ustelkeria errazago gerta daitekeelako. Artikulu honetan, eskuraketa publikoetan kutunkeria eta ustelkeria gertatzeko arriskua murrizteko hartutako neurri batzuk azaltzen dira. RESUMEN: La corrupción es un grave problema que perjudica el desarrollo económico, político y social de un país. Su generalización más allá de las fronteras nacionales, preocupa a todos los Estados. Es por ello que, junto a las normativas internas, en los últimos años se han multiplicado los convenios internacionales para prevenir y reprimir las conductas corruptas. En esa línea de actuación se encuentra también la Unión Europea y sus Estados miembros que, desde distintos frentes, vienen desarrollando una política global de lucha contra la corrupción. Uno de sus ámbitos de acción es el de la contratación pública al ser éste uno de los sectores más expuestos al riesgo de corrupción. Este artículo presenta alguna de las medidas adoptadas desde la normativa contractual para reducir el riesgo de favoritismo y corrupción en las adquisiciones públicas. ABSTRACT: Corruption is a serious problem that is detrimental to the social, economic and political development of any country. Its extension across national frontiers is a source of concern for all States. Hence, in addition to specific domestic regulations, international conventions have multiplied in recent years to prevent and to curb corrupt practices. The European Union is also moving down this road and has developed a global policy to combat corruption on various fronts. One of its areas of action is public procurement; since 2004, Directives on public procurement have provided for the mandatory exclusion from the tendering process of those tenderers who have been convicted in a final sentence of offences involving corruption. The present article approaches the study of these measures and examines their contribution to the fight against corruption in the context of public procurement.

scholarly journals Realization of the Aims of Sustainable Development in “Strategy for the Social and Economic Growth of Eastern Poland by 2020”

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Anna Busłowska
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Eu

The realization of the idea of the sustainable development is a direction of development of many countries in the world, also in the European Union. It is possible to find examples of such action in the structural policy conducted by the  EU. It is directed at deliberate and intentional activity of the official authority  aiming at the harmonious development of EU regions. In particular it is regarding eastern regions of Poland which are reporting wide financial support from the budget of the European Union for social, economic and ecological growth. Particular directions of that growth contains “Strategy for the social and economic       growth of Eastern Poland by 2020”. The purpose of this article is to evaluate (using       available statistical data) the implementation of development goals in eastern  Polish regions contained in the Strategy in the context of sustainable development.    

scholarly journals Regional Disparities in the European Union from the Perspective of Environmental Context Indicators

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Stefaniia Belinska ◽  
Izabela Adamičková ◽  
Natália Turčeková ◽  
Miriam Buliková ◽  
Peter Bielik
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Destructive Processes

Abstract The agricultural sector is one of the most important sectors of the countries’ economies and agricultural production has a huge socio-economic importance. In the current conditions of globalization and diversification of production, agriculture tries to achieve continuous development, realization of the potential, growth of the quantity and quality of the agricultural production, ensuring food security of the country. The quantitative and qualitative development of the agricultural sector takes place within a certain system, which is created under the influence of economic, social, and environmental factors based on innovations associated with transformation. These components of the current development of the agricultural sector are undergoing constant transformations, leading to the imbalances and the emergence of destructive processes within the complex system of the agricultural sector. Exploring regional disparities in terms of environmental and economic context indicators of CAP is strategically important for the stable rural and regional development of countries, increasing the competitiveness of agriculture, and sustainable and integrated development of regions. Based on the results of the calculations, we confirmed the effect of catching up between poorer and richer EU countries and identified the future trends in the occurrence and reduction of regional disparities.

scholarly journals GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOPOLITICAL FACTORS WITHIN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

HERALD ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Yakovlevich Baklanov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Time Range ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stable Growth ◽  
One Year

Macro-economically, development is usually referred to as the social-economic growth within a region in a specific time range (e.g. one year or longer) expressed via the increase of population, GDP, index of growth of industrial and agricultural production, investments in primary capital, etc. Nevertheless, it seems that the most complete and substantial determination of regional development is the formation and development of territorial social-economic structures within a region accompanied with a stable growth of economic, social, and ecological qualities of regional development.

scholarly journals La reforma constitucional en Cuba, en el marco de la aplicación provisional del Acuerdo UE-Cuba del 2016 (The Constitutional Reform in Cuba, in the Context of the Provisional Implementation of the 2016 EU-Cuba Agreement)

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 924-950
Author(s):  
Alexis Berg-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cooperation Agreement ◽  
Political Dialogue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Political Model ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu

El artículo analiza, desde el enfoque institucional, por qué era necesario hacer la reforma de la Constitución cubana, y los retos que debía tener presentes para garantizar la protección de los derechos de toda la sociedad, así como la implementación de las principales transformaciones socioeconómicas realizadas por el Gobierno para garantizar la permanencia del sistema socialista cubano y seguir reforzando las relaciones bilaterales con la UE. De hecho, con la firma y puesta en funcionamiento del primer Acuerdo de Diálogo Político y de Cooperación UE-Cuba del 2016, se puso en marcha un nuevo modelo político de relación UE-Cuba. Por esta razón, en los tres apartados del artículo se demuestra cómo la reforma constitucional cubana respalda y brinda continuidad al proceso de modernización realizado en la estructura social, económica y política en Cuba, para garantizar la aplicación provisional del Acuerdo con la UE desde 2017 hasta 2019. From an institutional approach, the paper analyzes why it was necessary to reform the Constitution of Cuba, and the challenges that had to be taken into account to ensure the protection of rights of the Cuban people, as well as the implementation by the Government of the main socio-economic transformations to guarantee the continuation of the Cuban socialist system and to reinforce the bilateral rapport with the European Union (EU). In fact, the signature and implementation of the first EU-Cuba Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement, in 2016, prompted a new political model in the relationship between the EU and Cuba. For this reason, in the three sections of the paper, we prove how the reform of the Constitution of Cuba offers support and continuity to the process of modernization of the social, economic and political structure of Cuba, in order to ensure the provisional implementation of the Agreement with the EU from 2017 to 2019.

scholarly journals INTERDEPENDENCE OF ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Jakub Staniszewski ◽  
Andrzej Czyżewski
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Opposite Sign ◽  
Environmental Efficiency ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Structural Policy ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Production Concentration ◽  
The Eu

The aim of the study was to identify the most important determinants of economic and environmental efficiency of agricultural production in the EU countries in 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2013, with particular emphasis on structural conditions. The paper presents the results of modelling with the use of Eurostat data and methods of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and panel regression. In the case of economic efficiency, the importance of production concentration, understood as economic strength of farms, associated with an even distribution of production, was identified. In the case of eco-efficiency, its limiting factor turned out to be specialisation towards animal production. These results allow us to conclude that it is possible to achieve economic and environmental objectives at the same time, as none of the identified determinants was repeated in both models with the opposite sign. The results of the research are also a premise for the implementation of an active structural policy under the CAP after 2020.

scholarly journals THE COMPARISON OF CHANGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRODUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL AIMS OF AGRICULTURE IN SELECTED GROUPS OF VOIVODSHIPS

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Kopiński
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Production Potential ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office ◽  
A Minor

The importance of regionalization of Polish agriculture is constantly increasing, mostly due to its environmental, organizational and economic differences between regions. The process of regionalization has become especially visible after Polish accession to the European Union. The study compared the changes in the utilization of production capacity for selected voivodships, located in different parts of Poland, i.e. Dolnoślaskie and Opolskie (A) and Małopolskie and Podkarpackie (B), in the years 2002–2004 and 2012–2014. The main data sources were Central Statistical Office of Poland publications and the results of an own study. The analysis showed significant differences in the production capacity of Polish agriculture and in the utilization of production potential in different regions. The differences between the analyzed groups of voivodships were mostly due to management and intensity differences of agricultural production, while habitat and natural conditions were of a minor importance. Agriculture of Dolnośląskie and Opolskie proved to be the most effective in achieving production and environmental objectives.

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