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Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts on Agriculture in the New Europe - Post-Communist Transition and Accession to the European Union (Paperback)
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Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts on Agriculture in the New Europe - Post-Communist Transition and Accession to the European Union (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
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This book looks at agriculture and the environment, placed within
the dynamic context of post-communist societal change and entry
into the European Union (EU). Scrieciu explores developments in
eleven Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and argues for
agriculture's natural place in these societies. The history of
these countries is significant in how it has shaped the
institutions and influenced the outcomes. In many cases, during
communism, agriculture was not considered a strategic branch for a
nation's development. An ecological consciousness did not figure
high on the agendas of authoritarian regimes. After 1990, some
post-communist farm economies progressed slower than others, and
environmental pressures mostly diminished with agricultural
restructuring. In parts of CEE, increases in numbers of low-input
small farms have resulted in some, though largely unintended,
ecological benefits. A dual environmental challenge has
nevertheless surfaced. On one hand, environmentally unsustainable
practices have been attributed to some low-input farming. On the
other hand, risks of farm over-intensification and resource
overexploitation are on the rise. Also, environmental regulatory
and institutional frameworks are not always effectively in place.
EU membership is not creating the anticipated benefits for farm
growth. There are a number of systemic structural barriers
preventing many farmers from drawing on Common Agricultural Policy
incentives and support. The presence of many vulnerable poor farms
is clearly problematic, particularly economically. However,
small-scale farms could be made more acceptable and profitable by
ensuring EU policies acknowledge their value and by building
institutions to support alternative farm growth strategies, aside
from the traditional European model of individual corporate farm
expansion. The voluntary uptake of grassroots rural cooperation and
farm associations may represent such an alternative. Future
European farm policy reforms need to reach the small and
vulnerable, and better tackle issues of farm equity, poverty, and
agricultural sustainability in the new Europe. This is a timely
contribution as this type of "transition" has just begun. This book
should be of use to students and researchers looking at
agricultural and environmental economics, post-communist rural
societal change, European integration and the Common Agricultural
Policy. It may be also useful and of high relevance to policy
analysts and those involved in agricultural and rural development
policy-making in the region or in other countries facing similar
problems.
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