Effects of EU rural development funds on newly established enterprises in Romania's rural areas

From large-scale communist agricultural premise through abandoned contaminated ruin to organic farming production: The story of successful post-agricultural brownfield regeneration

“…Subsidies are an important source for financing of organic farming throughout Europe (Brzezina et al, 2017). On the other hand, subsidies induced only low number of starting of business in rural post-socialist realm (Mack et al, 2021), they can lead to the increased reliance on external financial support (Pechrova, 2014), and decimate agricultures in other parts of the world where subsidies are not present (Graddy-…”

LEADER Program—An Inclusive or Selective Instrument for the Development of Rural Space in Romania?

“…However, it remains to be seen whether inclusive behaviour is indeed the solution for disadvantaged rural areas to reach a higher level of development. Mack, Fintineru, and Kohler [50] suggest that it might be more useful for European funds to be allocated to a smaller number of territories so that they can receive considerable financial support in order to have visible results in bridging the gaps. Otherwise, a division of funds between several territories with different levels of development could lead to the allocation of insufficient amounts of funds per beneficiary, funds that fail in helping rural communities to truly achieve their goals.…”

“…This indicates the existence of other factors that have a stronger influence and which act to a greater extent on the spatial distribution of LEADER funds. Mack, Fintineru and Kohler [50] suggest that some of these factors are the proximity of rural settlements to major urban poles, the dominant political parties, the county affiliation of the rural communities or the degree of ethnic homogeneity. Moreover, the quality of human resources and the structural and organisational capacity of territories are other factors that could prove to have a major influence on the performance of LAGs to absorb LEADER funds, especially on their ability to effectively invest this financial support.…”

A perspective on agricultural labor productivity and greenhouse gas emissions in context of the Common Agricultural Policy exigencies

“…Galluzzo (2016) demonstrated the existence of a direct correlation between the Single Area Payments Schemes and crop specialization. Mack, Fintineru and Kohler (2020) demonstrated that the results of implementing the CAP in Romania have positive outcomes: higher the treatment intensity imply the generation of more new enterprises and that funds higher than €50 per capita significantly contribute to the generation of newly established in rural areas. Through the first pillar of the CAP, the financial subsidies allocated for Romania have had an effect on the development of agritourism, yet this is in contrast with the subsidies disbursed under the second pillar have had no unique effects in any Romanian development region (Galluzzo, 2020).…”