This study discusses current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) measures and reform proposals for the post-2013 period with respect to EU semi-subsistence farms (SSFs). Based on country case studies and interview evidence, the study assesses the values of SSFs for rural areas and the obstacles they face in using Pillar 1 and 2 measures. It concludes that the fundamental issue of income support to semi-subsistence producers is inadequately addressed by any set of CAP instruments, and puts forward a set of recommendations for strengthening the CAP approach, especially via Pillar 2, for SSFs.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 3227016This report is a preliminary and rough estimate of 2013 production and economic results of the Slovenia agriculture. The conditions were once more unfavourable for the cultivation of plants, while preliminary evaluations of animal husbandry in 2013 point towards another decrease in production as compared to the previous year. Nominal agricultural price indices reveal a growth that exceeds the inflation rate (the Slovenian Institute of macroeconomic analysis and development, IMAD, predicted 2,0 % for 2013). Since input costs have increased comparatively less than agricultural product prices, the cost-price ratio will be slightly improved in 2013. Agricultural policy has seen but minor changes in 2013. Considering the changes in production scope and prices, 2013 revenues in agriculture will be similar to those in 2012.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 4258920Central at the international conference was the presentation of the theory and practice of empirical agricultural and rural development decision making support tools. Globally as well as in Slovenia, it is increasingly being demanded that agricultural policy decision making be based on facts, analyses and methodologically sound assessments of individual measures' effects. In short, there is a growing demand for evidence-based policy, which certainly provides new opportunities for agricultural economy as a science. The conference attracted 95 participants and saw the publication of a proceedings contain 24 articles.
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 271247616Our aim was to define the main factors which determine the structure, scope and conceptual outline of the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP). Ontological realism served as the methodological basis, coupled with certain related paradigms stemming from the theory of science and the theory of classical realism of international relations. Our main thesis is that underlying all decisions regarding CAP means and instruments are the interests of those who hold most of the capital, namely large and rich countries; in the context of the different branches of agriculture, it is those with larger production and higher capital intensity, while among producers, who are key agricultural players also in terms of interest and policy, it is the ones holding substantial resources (land, animals, facilities, machinery). We juxtapose this innovative way of analysing the CAP with the more usual approaches of rational and public choice, Moravcsik's liberal intergovernmentalism, critical discourse analysis and other theories. The results emphasise the individual theories' scope as well as the gaps in explaining the real and complex phenomena of this area of public policy.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 3277960Zaradi nasprotujočih si izsledkov obstoječih raziskav o vplivu znanja na stališča o GSO je bil namen študije ugotoviti, kakšna so stališča prebivalcev Slovenije do gensko spremenjenih organizmov (GSO) in kako znanje vpliva na stališča o GSO. V januarju 2012 je bila izvedena telefonska anketa o stališčih in znanju o GSO na reprezentativnem vzorcu med prebivalci Slovenije (N = 446). Izsledki so pokazali prevladujoče negativno stališče do GSO ne glede na vrsto, uporabo in na zemljepisno oddaljenost; pri tem posebej izstopa percepcija vpliva GSO na posameznikovo zdravje. Večina anketiranih (59,5 %) ima o GSO srednje dobro znanje; visok delež (30,4 %) je takih, katerih znanje je slabo. Boljše objektivno znanje imajo o temah iz formalnega izobraževanja ali spremljanja zakonodaje, slabše pa o medijskih mitih. Korelacijska analiza in enosmerna analiza variance sta pokazali, da med znanjem in stališči o GSO obstaja statistično značilna povezanost. Anketiranci z boljšim objektivnim znanjem (pravilni odgovori na testna vprašanja) imajo manj trdno in bolj pozitivno stališče do GSO in nasprotno. Anketiranci brez objektivnega znanja, a z izraženim subjektivnim znanjem (prepričanost o pravilnosti svojih odgovorov) imajo v povprečju bolj negativna stališča do GSO kot tisti, ki nimajo subjektivnega znanja. To pomeni, da ima znanje, še posebej pa medijski miti o GSO, pomembno vlogo pri oblikovanju stališča o vplivu GSO na posameznikovo zdravje.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 31992669