The monitoring and first evaluation of the situation in agriculture and agricultural policy in Slovenia has been prepared. Aprice with the help of Economic account of agriculture is showing the improvement of the agricultural factor income in 2010 in the comparison with 2009. However, the situation in agriculture is economically still severe. Factor income in 2010 is for 8 % lower than in average 2005-2009.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 3495016Luke Juvančič and Ales Kuhar led the Program and Organizing committees of the international scientific meeting of the European Association of Agrarian Economists (118th EAAE seminar, entitled "Rural development, governance, policy design and delivery), which was held in Ljubljana between 27 and 29 August 2010th. The conference was attended by 120 participants from 22 (mainly European) countries. The conference presented 67 scientific papers. The seminar program, with uploaded seminar papers is published on http://www.118-eaae-ruraldevelopment.org
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 252029696Global development of technologies of production and processing of hops contributes to the decision-making systems in the context of an increasing number of potential uses of various automation modules (agents). E-Learning Agent, Monitoring Agent, Fault Diagnosis Agent, Weather Information Agent, E-Commerce Agent and Logistics Agent. The proposed Agents in a book chapter are discussed for a case study of a hop industry. These agents might contribute to farmers’ production and processing of hops as well as to their education and business decisions.
F.04 Increase of the technological level
COBISS.SI-ID: 737399Support for development of social care and social assistance system in the contect of rural development with the development of methodology to evaluate efficacy of the green programs of social care. Process to evaluate efficacy in terms of social return on investment method was defined.
F.11 Development of a new service
COBISS.SI-ID: 6254969Thesis of Darja Regoršek: A dynamic mostly recursive synthetic partial equilibrium model of Macedonian agriculture is developed and the consequences on agriculture markets of EU accession is assessed. If the price convergence scenario were realized, the production of all agricultural products would increase due to their higher prices. The CAP scenario assumes new (decoupled) measures as well as a larger agricultural budget, so the production of all agricultural commodities would increase, except for pork which is not a supported commodity.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 2644104