Agricultural vocational training in Romanian professional secondary schools
CRPE Policy Memo 55, September 2014, Authors: Alexandra Toderiţă, Bianca Toma. The attractiveness of agriculture as a professional domain registered…
Common Agricultural Policy
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…
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…
EU’s budget: Veto’s threat on the table – What is to lose and what is to gain for Romania on MFF
Romanian Center for European Policies (RCEP) has published a detailed analysis of the possibilities and expectations Romania has from the results of the current negotiations on the future multiannual financial framework - EU’s budget (2014-2020).
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.
Consolidating small and medium farms
On November 18, 2010, the European Commission published "The Common Agricultural Policy in the perspective of 2020 ", the result of extensive public debate during 2010 that began at the invitation of Romanian Commissioner Dacian Ciolos. CRPE has organized on May 4, 2011, with the support of EurActiv and Infoeuropa, a public debate on this issue with key stakeholders, publicly proposing a simplified model of the scheme, which small farmers can have access to without filling in the annual subsidy applications and complex forms.
One country and two agricultures. Romania and the Common Agricultural Policy
This report resembles a Russian matrioska which is addressed to more audiences. On one hand, it is about the agricultural policies and European policies, who are accustomed with the field. On the other hand, it is about journalists, politicians, trade unionists, students and the public at large, who need context information for understanding the dilemma raised by CAP in the context of Romania.