Improving of Small Farm Market Capability in Latvia

Leimane, Ieva; Krieviņa, Agnese; Miglavs, Andris

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.12.861

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“…The new farm entities were short of equipment and capital, with many heirs having other occupations (Knudsen 2012). More than 2/3 of Baltic smallscale farmers still have no formal agricultural training and lack expertise in running a modern farm business, frequently leaving land idle, and vast rural areas are struggling with poverty (Leimane et al 2014;Žakevičiūtė 2019).…”

Section: Lithuania Latvia and Estonia: Different But Reactivementioning

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The Helsinki Convention’s agricultural nutrient governance: how domestic institutions matter

Andersen

Andersson

Brady

et al. 2022

Journal of Baltic Studies

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National policy styles and path-dependencies are inflicting on the abilities of Baltic Sea countries to deliver on their commitments under the Helsinki Convention. We here synthesize evidence and insights from studies relating to the provisions on agricultural nutrient management, a main source of marine pollution. We contend that governments that are strongly concentrated vertically, while fragmented horizontally, are lacking capacity, including with respect to informal institutions that can leverage implementation. As a stocktaking of institutional impediments to a sustainable development, the analysis has relevance to other international agreements where Baltic Sea countries are involved as key players.

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Section: Lithuania Latvia and Estonia: Different But Reactivementioning

confidence: 99%

The Helsinki Convention’s agricultural nutrient governance: how domestic institutions matter

Andersen

Andersson

Brady

et al. 2022

Journal of Baltic Studies

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“…This is a threat both to the future survival of smaller farms and to the overall competitiveness of the agricultural sector of the Baltic countries. According to the farmers, the most significant barriers for development and reasons for low production efficiency are lack of the required production assets and difficulties in attracting funding for long-term investments in Latvia [1]. While analysing the development of agriculture in Lithuania and Estonia, researchers point out that small and medium-sized farms do not possess sufficient opportunities for investment in farm modernization and implementation of new technologies [2; 3].…”

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Development and distribution of technological capital in agriculture: comparison of the Baltic countries

Leimane¹,

Krieviņa²,

Melece³

2017

Engineering for Rural Development

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Abstract. The value added created in the agriculture of Latvia and other Baltic countries is still not sufficient for the adequate remuneration of the production factors and further farm development. At the same time, there have been studies, which conclude that the increase in the productivity and the resource utilization efficiency in agriculture can be achieved by technological progress and development of technological capital; and after joining the EU, substantial financial funds were made available to the farm modernization in the Baltic countries. Therefore, the paper seeks to analyse how the development of technological capital has changed the concentration of fixed assets and value added among the farms of different size in the agriculture of the Baltic countries. The concept of the Lorenz curve has been applied in the study, using DG Agri FADN data of 2004-2013, which corresponds to the previous EU programming periods. The use of the Lorenz curve in the economic analysis of agriculture is a rather innovative approach applied in the paper. The results show that a significant amount of investment has been made in the agriculture of the Baltic countries, along with the increase in the agricultural value added created. Although the concentration level of fixed assets and value added differs among the Baltic countries; there is a similar concentration tendency -increase of the role of the large farms and their share both in the management of fixed assets and in the generation of value added.

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Supporting the role of small farms in the European regional food systems: What role for the science-policy interface?

Šūmane

Miranda

Pinto‐Correia

et al. 2021

Global Food Security

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Improving of Small Farm Market Capability in Latvia

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

The Helsinki Convention’s agricultural nutrient governance: how domestic institutions matter

The Helsinki Convention’s agricultural nutrient governance: how domestic institutions matter

Development and distribution of technological capital in agriculture: comparison of the Baltic countries

Supporting the role of small farms in the European regional food systems: What role for the science-policy interface?

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