Institutul de Economie Agrara

The Common Agricultural Policy mainly targets reaching the equilibrium between the consumers’ and producers’ interests. The first and most important Common Agricultural Policy objective is represented by ensuring food security for the population. The paper attempts to identify the modality in which the domestic supply can ensure the population’s access to a balanced diet, based on valuable components, and one of the important factors in reaching this objective is ensuring self-sufficiency. Fruit production increase at the level of soil natural potential should be correlated with the absorption potential of domestic market in the first place. Â

This conference paper presents Tools4CAP, a Horizon Europe project that supports the new delivery model of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by strengthening evidence-based strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation of CAP Strategic Plans. It outlines the project’s objectives and approach, including: (i) building an inventory of methods and tools relevant for CAP governance; (ii) selecting and analysing case studies to understand what works in practice and under which conditions; (iii) testing and validating selected tools through pilots and stakeholder engagement; and (iv) providing capacity-building and guidance to national and regional authorities, evaluators and practitioners.

The paper includes a synthesis of a longer time series analysis of Romania’s agrifood foreign trade trends, the research underlining the developments in international markets as a member of the European Union. The results lay on the quantitative and qualitative investigations of the agrifood trade flows under the influences of main economic and political changes developed during the period 1989-2011 The results indicate the increase of trade flows, but deep trade deficit, also the decrease of export diversification, but an increasing trend of the amounts in post-accession period. The most competitive products bringing net export gains were cereals, oilseeds, live animals and other vegetable products, while in recent years tobacco, and residues of food industry.

The determinants of economic growth in a national economy or in an activity field  were the subject of many disscusions between specialists, starting from identifying the indicators considered to be the engine of economic growth, but also to the correlations between them, and to the interpretation of the results. Regarding to the agricultural sector, were identified as indicators/factors with influence on the economic growth the following: final consumption, the value of exports, the value of production for market, variation of stocks, the value of taxes on products. In this approach, the analysis of factors/determinants is depened by an econometric model, of which correlations relations highlights the intensive determinants with effect on the final indicator of the economic growth – gross value added. For testing the influence of the factors mentioned above on the gross value added from the agricultural sector was used the E-views program, which allowed the moddeling the phenomenon  and the influence of different effort factors on one or more  effect factor. Â

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted at the UN General Assembly in New York in 2015, then implemented by the European Union, respectively by Romania (through Romania’s Sustainable Development Strategy 2030), is a historic document, through its 17 goals, which promotes a sustainable future for all citizens. Structured on the three pillars of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental – it highlights one of the priorities of global sustainable development and a major concern of our time – environmental protection. Two of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda – life on land and life in water – are found in the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. This strategy is the cornerstone of nature protection in the EU, a key element of the European Green Deal. Biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate, with biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse among the most important threats that humanity will face in the next decade. In this context, the EU member states must establish a series of commitments, objectives and appropriate specific measures to preserve the environment, substantially increase the allocation of financial resources necessary to achieve these objectives, so as to stop the loss of biodiversity. The objective of this approach is to highlight some aspects related to private and public financing for the protection of the environment and of biodiversity in Romania, based on statistical data. Evaluating public data sources, national concerns regarding the protection of the environment and biodiversity are highlighted, through specific indicators: national expenditures and investments for the protection of the environment, of biodiversity respectively, by categories of environmental services producers, by environmental domains, at European and national level.

Abstract: Expression of historicity and territorial identity, the traditional agricultural products comprise a wide range of items, from tourism products, with the supply comprising parks and natural reserves, cultural and ethnographic objectives, to agricultural products. The traditional tourism and agricultural products are the cultural and economic response to the modality of approaching rural biodiversity and the agricultural diversity of rural communities in particular, as these are strongly liked to their area of origin, they have particular soil and weather characteristics, have the technical and organizational specificity of the territory. They are based on certain rural-specific local resources, both material and immaterial, and cannot be replicated in other areas or territorial contexts. The studies carried out so far succeeded in quantifying the induced commercial desirability level on a market saturated by excessively processed food products; at the same time, they are carriers of the scientific messages of investigation of the economic and cultural competitiveness increase.

Dezvoltarea tehnologiei a evideniat necesitatea digitalizrii n toate domeniile, unul dintre principalii factori care contribuie semnificativ la creterea calitii vieii i la mbuntirea accesului la serviciile publice i private. n acest sens, pandemia COVID-19 a grbit tranziia societii ctre o er digital n domeniul educaiei, marcnd deficite semnificative n ceea ce privete abilitile digitale, conectivitatea i utilizarea tehnologiilor n educaie, att n ceea ce privete cadrele didactice, ct i elevii/studenii.

This conference paper presents Tools4CAP, a Horizon Europe project that supports the new delivery model of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by strengthening evidence-based strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation of CAP Strategic Plans. It outlines the project’s objectives and approach, including: (i) building an inventory of methods and tools relevant for CAP governance; (ii) selecting and analysing case studies to understand what works in practice and under which conditions; (iii) testing and validating selected tools through pilots and stakeholder engagement; and (iv) providing capacity-building and guidance to national and regional authorities, evaluators and practitioners.