Diana Kopeva

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at University of National and World Economy

Kosovo's agricultural development is influenced by favorable policies and attributes relevant to consumer demand. The more we know about the important attributes of the local consumer towards agricultural products, the better policies are designed to support farmers and value chains to adapt to changes in consumer preferences. Empirical insights gl...

The Municipality of Prishtina, located in the heart of Kosovo, embodies significant agricultural potential that can be unlocked through innovative practices. Integrating smart agriculture technologies offer a unique opportunity to revolutionize traditional farming methods and empower women farmers as key stakeholders. Women farmers play a crucial r...

Purpose - The main objective of the paper is to contribute to testing the usefulness of image content analysis in the assessment of trends in the tourism market, as well as to draw conclusions about contemporary tendencies in the adventure tourism market. Methodology - The image content analysis is a key methodological tool in this research, suppor...

Social Entrepreneurship constitutes a crucial driver of social innovation (Hall, Matos, Sheehan, & Silvestre, 2012). This is due to the fact that social entrepreneurs use creative business models to resolve social and environmental challenges (Evans et al., 2017). By doing so, they develop much-needed innovations for contemporary societies, positiv...

Sarov, A. & Kopeva, D. (2023). The Bulgarian model of land ownership: the "white plot" phenomenon. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 29 (2), 248-251 More than three decades after the democratic changes in Bulgaria, the reforms in land use and land ownership continue. In these transitional stages of the development and reform of the institutional environment, g...

Transitions, Institutions and the Rural Sector is a series of essays examining and analyzing the rural transformations in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The authors included in this volume employ a variety of interesting and insightful approaches to the topic, including synthetic regional analysis, analytic comparative...

For two decades, the European institutions have recognized the ability of social entrepreneurship to correct social and economic imbalances and achieve objectives of common interest. The European Parliament has defined it as the basis of the European social market model. The EU’s interest in social entrepreneurship stems from its link with several...

The agri SMEs in Kosovo are facing challenges that are reducing competitiveness and preventing it from fulfilling their production potential. The main constraints in increasing productivity and improving competitiveness are the low use of modern techniques and technologies in both production and management of enterprises, lack of funds, the low use...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an element of BusinessContribution to the Sustainable development. The Corporate social responsibility is a new socio-economic phenomenon, especially for Bulgaria, and its applied introduction by Bulgarian Business is important and not fully researched topic yet. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has for...

Energy Poverty (EP) is the inability to attain a socially and materially necessitated level of domestic en- ergy services. In the EU this occurs primarily due to low incomes, poor energy performance of buildings and high energy costs. The impacts of EP range from impaired social lives to unhealthy living condi- tions, with further consequences in t...

For more than 25 years, agricultural cooperatives in Bulgaria have been operating in conditions of a rapidly changing socioeconomic and political environment. Тhe Institutional changes, blurring property rights, the separation of between ownership and management and change of the decision-making process, all required from agricultural cooperatives...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an element of business contribution to the sustainable development. The corporate social responsibility is a new socio-economic phenomenon, especially for Bulgaria, and its applied introduction by Bulgarian business is important and not fully researched topic yet. Social responsibility (CSR) has forcefully a...

Industrial heritage is a gift from the human past. Ex-industrial sites are here to stay. Finding potential in them, despite their difficulties, is a major challenge that professional in the field will have to constantly face. This paper will analyze the actual condition of former industrial sites in the Southeastern Europe and also will give a clea...

POLIS University publishes the “Forum A+P” – Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Scientific Environment”, the only scientific and cultural magazine in the Albanian –speaking countries on the fields of architecture and territory planning. This magazine is recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science, the Academic Degrees Evaluation...

Given the increasing economic globalization and restructuring in the world economic systems, and the requirements for knowledge and information within that system, educational needs (in terms of structure, function, curriculum and approach) at all levels have changed. These educational requirements for the workforce of the future are extremely...

Purpose: The role of entrants and exits has enlarged indisputably over recent years. The basic explanation is connected to the deepening of innovation's influence on industrial growth. Furthermore, new businesses have to be more effective, and based on products, technological or organizational innovations, and exits have to be ineffective (respect...

Defining the industrial dynamics is needed to identify the important prerequisites that support the achievement of a sustainable industrial and economic growth. The industrial dynamics could be used as an instrument to analyze future economic behavior. In the paper we step on the basis of existing state of the art. In section one the methodology is...

Rural areas are gradually losing their agricultural specificity. They now need to support the coexistence of two logical approaches to occupation of their space: one based on the supply of agricultural and forestry products, the other on the various demands from local residents and seasonal tourists. The focus is shifting from only supplying market...

From the end of the nineteenth century until the 1940s Bulgarian agriculture was characterized mainly by owner-occupied, small-scale, fragmented farms. After 1946 these farms were collectivized until, in 1991, a program for land restitution was implemented with the objective of restoring property to some 1.7 million individual claimants. This compl...

Industry dynamic is a key indicator for sustainable industry growth. It depends on variety of factors on international and regional level. One of the important driving forces on international level is seen in the face of economic and political alliances. Cultural and regional policies, and social behaviour are driving industry dynamics on a regiona...

Rural areas are becoming increasingly differentiated and gradually losing their agricultural specificity. They now need to support the coexistence of two logical approaches to occupation of their space: one based on the supply of agricultural and forestry products, the other on the various demands from local residents and seasonal tourists. Under t...

Industry dynamic is a key indicator for sustainable industry growth. It depends on variety of factors on international and regional level. One of the important driving forces on international level is seen in the face of economic and political alliances. Cultural and regional policies, and social behaviour are driving industry dynamics on a regiona...

The Food and Beverage Industry is an attractive and a leading sector in Bulgarian industry. The Bulgarian Food and Beverage Industry (BFBI) has traditionally been an export-oriented. The biggest importer of food and beverages in Bulgaria is Brazil, followed by Russia, China and India. Continual increase of trade relations importance with BRIC count...

Bulgarian industry has lost many of its positions since of the beginning of 1990s. Structural reform during transition period resulted in markets’ lost; lack of innovations, low product quality, inefficient organizational and production structure. This has changed after the end of the economic crisis of 1996. Industry growth in Bulgaria has been dr...

Paper prepared for presentation at the 118 th seminar of the EAAE (European Association of Agricultural Economists), 'Rural development: governance, policy design and delivery' Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 25-27, 2010 Copyright 2010 by Kopeva, D., Peneva, M., Madjarova, S. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for no...

The role of Rural Development Policy is growing nowadays. As an EU member state Bulgaria started implementation of Rural Development Policy. The paper analyse the level of achievement of the Rural Development Programme’s objectives in Bulgaria. The programme started in 2008 and most of the measures are implemented. But effective payments have been...

Structural reform of the Bulgarian economy in transi﬒ on and the European Union pre-accession period led to many nega﬒ ve phenomena in the na﬒ onal economy of the micro, meso and macro level. Such nega﬒ ve phenomena such as loss of markets, low innova﬒ on ac﬒ vi﬑ and lack of innova﬒ on, lower quali﬑ of products and services, ineffi cient organiza﬒ on...

Central European agricultural land ownership is fragmented. An instrument that is particularly suited for solving the land fragmentation problem is land banking. Although the potential of land banking is acknowledged, details on the actual use prove to be hard to fill in. In Western Europe, a long-standing tradition on land banking provides insight...

The paper provides an overview of the status of land markets in Bulgaria and the progress made towards a functioning system. At present, the land market is being reform driven and is in its inception. The existing information on land markets comprises a mixture of anecdotal information and documentary records, partly based on market evidence. This...

LAND FRAGMENTATION AND LAND CONSOLIDATION IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR A CASE STUDY FROM BULGARIA

Present-day Central and Eastern European agriculture is characterized by a high incidence of small-scale farmers who are not producing for the market. This paper uses household level data from a 1998 survey in Bulgaria to analyze which characteristics and factors influence subsistence farming. Acknowledgments:This research was undertaken with suppo...

The outcome of land reform and farm restructuring in Bulgaria during the 1991-95 period is analysed. Factors which have been instrumental in the outcome are identified. Three main issues addressed are: changes in farm structures during the post reform period; the main characteristics of the emerging farm structures and how sustainable they are; and...

The disarticulation of the previously dominant bi-modal land structure, dominated by large state and collective enterprises and the productive but small household plots is studied. Land reform included: restoration of land property rights to former owners; dismantling of the TKZS (large state and collective enterprises) and distribution of their as...

The process of transformation of Bulgarian agriculture from a centrally controlled economy to a market-oriented economy is resulting in land reform, which will necessitate the immediate development and operation of land markets. On the one hand, the land reform is restoring land to those who owned it in the year 1947, or their heirs, who not only h...

The process of successfully transforming Bulgarian agriculture from a centrally planned to a market oriented economy demands economic adjustments in the following directions: macroeconomic stabilisation aimed at creating a favourable environment for long-term investments; structural reform which stimulates the development of the economic agents cha...

The following is an attempt to summarize the various aspects of possible land consolidation schemes in Dobrich region. In order to gauge comprehensively the specific Bulgarian conditions, several key factors have been addressed. Legal Legitimacy. It is indisputable that the strategic objective of establishing an effective and competitive rural econ...