The objective was to define the relation between the agricultural policy measures and the factors affecting the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and the adaptation of agriculture to climate change, and, on this basis, to assess to what extent the agricultural policy already responds to the climate change challenges. All current agricultural policy measures in the 2007-2013 programme period were analysed using the Delphi method. Results suggest that there are not many climate change targeted measures in the Slovene agricultural policy, however, its aggregate impact is not negligible. The current measures have both positive and negative effects, whereas at the aggregate level the positive effects prevail. The measures involving a large number of beneficiaries and more budgetary funds had the strongest impact on the aggregate scores.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 255542016The paper presents reference approaches towards designing and argumenting socio-economic impact of GMOs. Agreement on a comprehensive, empirically supported and mutually acceptable set of factors that would allow integration into the EU regulatory framework has not yet been achieved. In the paper, we propose a set of seven socio-economic factors which reflect specific characteristics of the Slovenian agricultural and social environment.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 30786653The aim of thesis is the development of a modular tool to support the process of production planning at the farm level in a risky environment. The tool is supported by seven modules, based on different mathematical programming methods. The modular tool enables reconstruction of farm production plans from missing or aggregated data by applying a partial optimisation process and it enables modelling of income risk. The problem is solved by quadratic programming or constrained quadratic programming, depending on the type of mathematical model applied. A developed modular tool is supported with multiple criteria optimisation, based on goal programming and searching for a compromise solution between economics and public goals. The tool has been tested on three typical dairy farms. Obtained results show that single-criteria decision-making might be biased and does not necessarily lead to the best option for analysed agriculture holdings. Larger agricultural holdings are accepted to take more risk, but at the same time they are less efficient in risk reduction.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 2838408