Access To Land

Resources

Here are suggestions of further reading, from public authorities, academics and practitioners. Most of them are available in Romanian and English.

Institutul National de Statistica - National Statistics Institute of Romania, Ancheta structurala in Agricultura 2013, National survey on the structure of agriculture.

Eurostat - Agricultural census in Romania, Data from November 2012

Agricultural Policy Perspectives - European Commission, Romania Fact Sheet, January, 2015

FAO Investment Centre - Emerging investment trends in primary agriculture. A review of equity funds and other foreign-led investments in the CEE and CIS region, FAO, 2013

World Bank - Structural change in the farming sectors in Central and Eastern Europe : lessons for EU accession, 2000

Douglas K. Knight - Romania and the Common Agricultural Policy, October, 2010

Transnational Institute - HOTL Hands Off The Land: Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe, 2013

Sylvia Kay, Jonathan Peuch, Jennifer Franco - Extent of farmland grabbing in the EU, European Parliament Think Tank, 2015

Kaul Nurm, European Economic and Social Committee - Opinion on Land grabbing – a wake-up call for Europe and an imminent threat to family farming (own-initiative opinion), 2015

Szocs Boruss Miklos Attila, Rodriguez Beperet Maria, Srovnalova Alzbeta - Land Grabbing in Romania, Eco Ruralis fact finding mission report, 2015

Renee Giovarelli, David Bledsoe - Land Reform in Eastern Europe, The Rural Development Institute, 2001

Marioara Rusu, Violeta Florian, Monica Tudor, Mihai Chitea, Lorena Chitea, Elisabeta Rosu - Land related disputes and conflicts in Romania, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy

Baker-Smith Katelyn - Farm Succession in Romania. Who will take over the lands from an aging peasant generation ? - Eco Ruralis report, April 2016


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