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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 12, Issue 3
Written by Simona FRONE, Dumitru Florin FRONE

This paper aims to highlight some of the main issues and challenges raised by developing and implementing the most appropriate and efficient approach for water pricing, to induce a sustainable water management (in its both edges of demand and supply). Therefore, we analyse some of the most important theoretical or mathematical models of water pricing developed so far. We follow with a review of opinions, approaches and some personal judgement and recommendations on the actual opportunity, principles, effectiveness and role of an efficient water pricing in fulfilling the multiple goals of sustainabilty.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 12, Issue 3
Written by Zornitsa STOYANOVA, Albena MITEVA, Julia DOITCHINOVA

Purpose of the paper is to assess the problems of creation and functioning of local action groups as form of public-private partnership. It is based on the survey and data provided by Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Conclusions in this report reflect the results of a research project of the University of National and World Economy, developed by the author team.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 12, Issue 3
Written by Dumitru Florin FRONE, Simona FRONE, Mirela STOIAN

As we try to point out again in this paper, water is one of the most important and scarce environmental resources, with some particular characteristics that raise serious challenges for a good management and sustainable development. First we define the concept of Water Demand Management, as a part of a Sustainable Water Management, along with stating some of its main recent political and economic issues and objectives in the European Union. Here, agriculture has been identified as a major sustainable water management issue in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The scarcity of the water resource has become a concern only in more recent studies, reflecting the shift from the engineering perspective of increasing supply to satisfy demand, to the economic perspective of also managing demand through price to efficiently allocate the existing quantity of water supply. Therefore, as a first conclusion, economists should try to find the best theoretical and practical approaches to deal with these challenges, expressing awareness on the fact that water is no longer a free public good, but a rare and valuable economic good.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 12, Issue 3
Written by Reta CONDEI, Ioana NICOLAE

Studies in the field have shown that productivity and quality are perceived as being the most important aspects for the companies dealing with this subject. The best methods to improve quality are: motivation of employees, change of organizational culture and employees education. One can see that all these are related to human resources. Therefore we can say that human resources managers play a very important role in the work meant to improve quality and productivity. First of all, they have to focus on the application of quality principles which will improve the operations related to human resources within the company and which will also improve the assistance for clients. Secondly, human resource specialists have to identify and work out all cases of insubstantiality in the company policy, when employees are faced with conflicting information. Thirdly, and the most important role of human resources specialists is to facilitate the application of methods designed to increase quality and productivity by means of such activities as: recruiting future employees, training, evaluation, reward or other activities connected to work relations. Each of these activities needs special attention in order to be able to adjust them to the company targets, to work conditions and to its culture.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 12, Issue 3
Written by Agnieszka BIERNAT-JARKA

The aim of the paper is to determine consequences of changes in direct payments proposed by the European Commission for the period 2014-2020 for the Polish beneficiaries. The author analyzed proposals of Regulations of the European Parliament and the Council as well as opinions of experts showing influence of the proposed solutions on the Polish agriculture. Presented results have a preliminary character because there have been not published the final regulations so far, so we can determine influence on a range, kind and level of payments directed for the Polish beneficiaries only on the base of proposals. The analysis conducted by the author displays that decrease in direct payments for large farms in Poland will not contribute to a fundamental change in a level of their income whereas implementation of obligatory greening in farms with more than 3 ha will contribute to excluding for ecological purposes about 700 thousand hectares.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 12, Issue 3
Written by Alexandru CHIRU

The paper wants to draw attention to the need of knowing the quality of the agricultural/agri-food products, within the sector, problems which have been construed sequentially. The policy and the components regarding the quality are approached differently, according to the vision of different economic agents and has had as result the typology of the quality policies within the structure of the agri-food sector. The CE policy in the field of the quality of the agri-food products represents a component of the community agrarian policy (PAC). It simultaneously addresses the enterprises, the public authorities and the consumers and refers to the establishment of the reference frame necessary for the improvement of the quality of the agri-food products, of the competiveness of the European enterprises and the citizens’ life.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 12, Issue 3
Written by Claudia LEPADATU

Year 2007 when Romania joins the European Union marked a new era in development and agricultural economy of our country. In this context Romania has had to quickly adapt its economy to take part in the EU internal market and to benefit fully from the positive effects of adopting the CAP. EU membership is perhaps the strongest factor of pressure for reform of agriculture and rapid rural Romanian economy given the necessity to integrate successfully in European rural economy. European model of agriculture is based on competitive sector oriented to market fulfilling also other function such as environmental protection, provision of residential settlements more convenient for people in rural areas and the integration of agriculture with the environment and forestry.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 12, Issue 3
Written by Anatol RACUL, Dragoş CIMPOIEŞ

This paper analyses the subsidies allocation in the agricultural sector of the Republic of Moldova and the impact of subsidies on agricultural outputs and profits. The methodology is based on Data Envelopment Analysis in order to define and calculate technical efficiency for each corporate farm. The empirical application is made on 451 Moldovan farms. Three main hypotheses where tested concerning accumulation of current assets and absorption of subsidies by farms with different degrees of technical efficiency. In this case, the farms with lower overall efficiency are more sensitive to the state support and are able to absorb larger amount of subsidies. Regression analysis was used to provide a framework for studying the implemented policy reflected by the data in use.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 12, Issue 3
Written by Mariana PERJU

The main objective of the research is to analyze and highlight forms of support for agriculture and rural development used in Republic of Moldova and to underline their impact on agrifood competitiveness. For this purpose the main directions of the State agricultural subsidy program have been considered, as well as the programs financed by donor’s community, including, European Union, World Bank, international Fund for Agricultural Development, United State Agency for International Development, Millennium Challenge Corporation and others. As result of this research had been established that Republic of Moldova has a number of sources of funding and support programs for agriculture and rural development, but their impact remains insufficient to ensure a good international competitiveness. In this context, during the process of the agricultural support policies and programs development, the priorities and needs of the sector have to be considered, and transparent and simple criteria have to be elaborated in such way to facilitate the access of farmers to existing sources of support.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 12, Issue 3
Written by Radu Andrei IOVA, Daniela CREŢU, Dumitra CONSTANTIN

The development of sustainable tourism in the natural areas led to the ecosystem as distinct form, aimed to respect the integrity of the natural landscapes, of ecological biodiversity. The natural areas represents important phases for the development of pleasure activities, that can bring important incomes, both to those who administer them and to the local communities. The present study proposed to show the current situation of the natural protected areas in Călăraşi county and the development phase of the eco-tourist activities within them and surrounding. Despite the fact the Călăraşi county possesses a remarkable eco-tourist patrimony with high potential for capitalization, the eco-tourism is a quite strait segment of the local tourist market, faced with problems such as: low cooperation at local level, existence of some limited offers, low diversification, low development of eco-tourism specific infrastructure at the level of the protected areas, and also the low level of training of those employed in this domain. Measures for the capitalization of these resources by eco-tourism are proposed based on the information obtained and analysed, in accordance with the requirements imposed by the national legislation.

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