
Making use of EU funds to steer West the Moldovan agriculture exports
Policy Comment EPC – CRPE Ending the cat-and-mouse embargos game. Making use of EU funds to steer West the Moldovan…

Policy Comment EPC – CRPE Ending the cat-and-mouse embargos game. Making use of EU funds to steer West the Moldovan…

CRPE Policy Memo nr 39 Authors: Cornelia Alboiu, Alexandra Toderiţă Romania’s agricultural sector is confronted with major problems related mainly…
Romanian Center for European Policies (RCEP) salutes the adoption of the Government Emergency Ordonance 05/14/2012 on measures regarding the development…
CRPE Policy Brief No. 20, April 2013 It is estimated that currently, approximately 40% of active farmers in Romania do…

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.

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.