Bozhidar Ivanov

• Institute of Agricultural Economics

This report is part of the research achievements of the Sino-Bulgarian Joint Lab on Climate Change Adaptative Governance for Rural Ecosystem, which is supported by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality. The report synthesizes most relevant data and information on rural climate change, disaster risk reduction, and adaptation...

There are intense debates about the importance and quality of agri-food governance, which have not passed Bulgaria. This chapter adapts the methodology of the New Institutional Economics and offers a holistic framework for an adequate understanding of the concept and components of agri-food governance system and for assessing its quality. Agri-food...

The application of precision farming techniques leads to significant improvements both in economical and environmental point of view, facilitates the optimization of resource use and reduces farmers’ risks in terms of natural and disease hazards but enhances the risk from technological faults. The whole article is to explore the attitudes of farmer...

A holistic Good Agents Means Processes Order Sustainability (GAMPOS) framework for an adequate understanding of agri-food governance and assessing its quality is suggested, incorporating the interdisciplinary new institutional economics methodology. Agri-food governance is defined as a complex system with five components: (1) agri-food and related...

Проблемът с оползотворяване на отпадъчното съдържание от пречиствателните станции и тяхното третиране е въпрос с десетилетна история. Дългогодишните проблеми, свързани със замърсяването на околната среда и с разходите за ползотворяване и рекултивация на депата за съхранение на тези отпадъци имат екологични и икономически измерения. В последните де...

This book tries to give new insights on important academic and practical (policies and agri-business forwarded) questions: What is Agrarian Governance and How to Evaluate its Quality; What is Governance Efficiency of Agricultural Farms and How to Measure its Level; How to Assess Holisticaly Competitiveness of Farming Structures; What are Mechanisms...

A new evolving concept of “Good Governance” has been increasingly debated in academic, governmental, business etc., circles. This paper tries to fill the existing gap suggesting a holistic framework for assessing the quality (goodness) of agrarian governance and estimating its level in Bulgaria. The assessment framework includes: defining the conte...

Книгата представя резултатите от втория етап на научноизследователския проект „Конкурентоспособност на земеделските стопанства в България“, финансиран от Селскостопанска академия и разработван от Институт по аграрна икономика (https://cfb.alle.bg/). Приложен е холистичен подход за разбиране, оценяване и подобряване на конкурентоспособността на зем...

This study aims to find the state of social infrastructure in Bulgaria and the effect on depopulation of rural areas. Bulgaria's rural areas have suffered both a decline in population and decline in quality and quantity of social infrastructure services after the country joined the EU. These two processes have a high symbiotic connection. This stud...

A holistic approach has been developed to understand, assess and improve the competitiveness of agricultural holdings in the country. The achievements of modern theory and practice and numerous scientific methods are adapted - literature and experience research, summary, synthesis, design, comparative and institutional analysis, multicriteria analy...

Книгата дава отговор на важни въпроси, вълнуващи българските фермери, администратори, политици, групи по интереси, научни работници и широката общественост за това какво е конкурентоспособност на земеделското стопанство, кои са стълбовете на фермерската конкурентоспособност, как да измерим равнището на конкурентоспособност на нашите стопанства, как...

Research report of the project Competitiveness of Bulgarian farms

The report presents the results of the 2021 stage of the research project "Competitiveness of agricultural farms in Bulgaria" funded by the Agricultural Academy and implemented by a team from the Institute of Agrarian Economics, UNWE, NBU and IPAZR "N. Pushkarov ”in Sofia. A holistic framework for understanding, evaluating, and improving the compet...

The issue of sludge utilization from wastewater treatment in agriculture is an important socio-economic and environmental problem in the European Union (EU) and Bulgaria. It is becoming topical issue along with constantly growing amount of produced wastewater treatment sludge, deficiency of lands for their safe disposal, protests of population and...

Настоящата книга представя резултатите от първото широкомащабно проучване на механизмите и формите за управление на екосистемните услуги в българските ферми. Най�напред са идентифицирани вида и размера на съхраняваните и „произвеждани“ екосистемни услуги от земеделските стопанства в страната. След това са откроени използваните вътрешни, пазарни...

The aim of this study is based on a depth and descriptive analysis of main industries of Bulgarian agriculture to assess the impact of various CAP support instruments on performance of key indicators characterized those industries. It is done through linear projected scenarios revealing the production development in the next programming period 2021...

The purpose of this article is to study the situation and level of convergence of Bulgarian agriculture in the context of the development of European agriculture and to seek the links of this convergence with the added value made up from agriculture, productivity, efficiency and competitiveness tallied up in the industry during the years of EU memb...

The use of wastewater in agriculture is a technology known and applied worldwide for decades. It is considered to be one of the cheapest and appropriate ways of recovering waste from Wastewater Treatment Plants. At the same time, there are various issues related to the use of the sludge in agriculture, which concern environmental, production, sanit...

Report of the second stage of the project on Ecosystem Services Management in Bulgarian Agriculture

Proceedings of 2020 “China and Central & Eastern Europe” International Scientific Forum, organized by SJTU and UNWE

The purpose of this article is to study the situation and level of convergence of Bulgarian agriculture in the context of the development of European agriculture and to seek the links of this convergence with the added value made up from agriculture, productivity, efficiency and competitiveness tallied up in the industry during the years of EU memb...

Целта на изследването е въз основа на анализ на състоянието и структурните промени в българското земеделие да се очертаят насоките на развитие на отрасъла при различни сценарии на ОСП на ЕС през новия програмен период (2021-2027). Анализът обхваща система от натурални и стойностни показатели като се очертаят основните тенденции в производственото и...

The aim of this study is based on a depth and descriptive analysis of main industries of Bulgarian agriculture to assess the impact of various CAP support instruments on performance of key indicators characterized those industries. It is done through linear projected scenarios revealing the production development in the next programming period 2021...

The purpose of this article is to study the degree of convergence in the production and the disposal of sewage sludge, as well as to focus on the sludge disposal in agriculture among selected EU countries and to compare trends and the position that Bulgaria ranks in this aspects.The wastewater in sewage system is a crucial issue for EU and Bulgaria...

The aim of the forthcoming sixth International Scientific Forum "Agrarian Economics in Aid to Agriculture" - Conference "European Agriculture and the New CAP Period 2021-2017: Predictions and Results" is to enhance the exchange of experience, ideas and knowledge from different speakers and participants across the world within its range of topics.

Настоящата книга представя холистичен интердисциплинарен подход за анализ, оценка и усъвършенстване на системата за управление на услугите на агроекосистемите в България. Прави се обзор на развитието на научните изследвания по този нов проблем. Дефинират се и се класифицират услугите на агроекосистемите. Дефинира се управлението на агроекосистемнит...

The research target is to analyze the development degree of the rural tourism in all its varieties in Bulgaria and China, its role for achievement of a sustainable and diversified development, as well as to assess the synergic effects of the protection and restoration of the ecologic and cultural wealth and to create a tourist product for a sustain...

The ecosystem approach has been widely incorporated in the management and evaluation of agrarian sustainability. Despite enormous progress in this new evolving area, still there is no consensus on how to assess the sustainability of agro-ecosystems due to the diversity in understandings, approaches, methods, employed data, etc. In Bulgaria there ar...

В разработката се прави оценка на интегралната, управленческата, икономическата, социална и екологическа устойчивост на Българското селско стопанство. На базата на официална статистическа и др. информация и проведени анкети със земеделски стопанства се прави апробация на разработената система и оценява равнището на аграрна устойчивост на различни н...

Around the globe, revitalization of agrarian and rural sector is one of the most topical issues for farmers, agrarian and rural communities, interest groups, researchers, investors, policymakers, and the public at large. In China and Bulgaria there are numerous publications on individual issues of agrarian and rural revitalization and sustainable d...

The price integration of the French and Bulgarian wheat and maize markets are explored and the magnitude and speed of price transmission and the characteristics of price behavior are determined. The main methods applied are based on cointegration analysis. Data from the European Commission and the National Statistical Institute is used.

The book contain proceedings of China-Bulgaria Rural Revitalization Development Cooperation Forum, hold on 23 April, 2018, in Sofia. Chapters give a deep insights on diverse issues associated with agrarian and rural development in Bulgaria and China.

This book applies interdisciplinary approach and assesses the system of governance and the level of agrarian sustainability in Bulgaria and China. The first part of the book presents a holistic and practically applicable for the contemporary conditions of development of Bulgarian and Chinese agriculture framework for assessing the system of govern...

The sustainable development has become a major topic not only for the economic science but in the economic policy development. There is a substantial literature dedicated to analyzing the different aspects of sustainability – economic, social and/or ecological. Agriculture has been recognized as one of the economic fields that has multidimensional...

This monograph has been prepared under the Multi-Annual Programme 2015-2019 “The Polish and the EU agricultures 2020+. Challenges, chances, threats, proposals”. The work aimed at analysis of different types of risk and its valuation in the food economy. Additionally, the authors presented the possibilities within the field of risk management. An ac...

Research on agrarian sustainability and its governance is still at the beginning stage due to the “newness” of the problem, emerging new challenges, fundamental modernization during recent years, “lack” of long-term experiences and relevant data, application of narrow (certain form or management level); one-dimensional, unisectorial, normative, wit...

One of the main instruments of the European CAP – the direct payments - play an important role for the Bulgarian agriculture after country’s EU accession in 2007. Field crops, horticulture, and dairy farming are traditional sectors in Bulgaria with high share of the total agriculture output. The main goal of this study is to determine the impact of...

The article presents the results from a modelling exercise on fi ve crops: wheat, barley, maize, sunfl ower and rapeseed. These crops cover 55 per cent of the utilised agricultural land in Bulgaria and over 90 per cent of the arable land. The main goal of the research was to project the development of the production and trade of these crops in Bulg...

This book is a first attempt to make a comprehensive comparative analysis of agricultural policies in Bulgaria and Vietnam. Twenty year experience in reforming the agrarian sectors in both countries gives an extraordinary opportunity to (re)assess agrarian policies, their impacts and perspectives, and rethink advantages and disadvantages of specifi...

In Bulgarian economy now runs the free market economic principles. It means that all of rational sheep farmers strive to get more income. The research will be concentrated to study "critical factors" that determine profitable or losing profiles of different type (mountainous and plain) and size (nominal, small, medium, large) farms. Along with favo...