Local Action Groups perceptions and recommendations for association
One of the stringent aspects that need to be addressed concerning Romania’s rural economy in the next multiannual framework is…
Agriculture and Rural Development
The role of regional food hubs in supporting small farmers in the USA
Policy Brief 31, May 2014, Author: Alexandra Toderita. Report: The role of regional food hub in supporting small farmers…
CRPE’s comments concerning the National Rural Development Program 2014-2020
Policy brief 30, April 2014 Authors: Alexandra Toderita, Cristian Ghinea, Lucian Luca. The reform of the Common Agricultural Policy offers…
Innovative measures for financing agricultural associations
CRPE Policy Brief No. 22. Small and medium-sized farming in Romania can only develop through associating for facilitating market…
European funds for agriculture – Romania’s options for direct payments (2014-2020)
Policy Memo no 42 , August 2013 Author: Lucian Luca After much debate, the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy…
Small farmers’ access to microcredits – CRPE arguments have convinced the Ministry of Agriculture
Romanian Center for European Policies (RCEP) salutes the adoption of the Government Emergency Ordonance 05/14/2012 on measures regarding the development…
AGRICULTURE: Financing solutions out of EU funds for small farmers in Romania: Micro-credits and guarantees
CRPE Policy Brief No. 20, April 2013 It is estimated that currently, approximately 40% of active farmers in Romania do…
Has the weaknesses chain in the taxation of agriculture been broken?
Starting 1 February 2013, the new Tax Code introduced a tax system for the marketed agricultural production based on income rules, on which 16% is applied. A simplified approach that targets both collection efficiency, but which will also produce structural effects for small and medium agriculture in Romania. Which will those be?
Good Practices for sustainable association in agriculture
In Romania the subject of association in agriculture has regained its importance on the public agenda slowly, but surely. We are way behind Western Europe at this chapter, even if right now a general consensus is shaping with regard to the advantages that cooperation can bring to small producers, on each link in the agri-food chain.
Why isn’t association attractive for farmers?
It has become a truism that a fragmented agriculture cannot be efficient on today’s global market and that a solution for this structural problem can be found in the development of association in rural areas. Due to historical causes and not only, cooperation in agriculture has a bad reputation in Romania.