Irena Krisciukaitiene

Lithuanian Centre of Social Science · Institute of Economics and Rural Development

The focus on environment- and climate-friendly farming is increasingly important in the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Activities of the Measure M10 “Agri-environment and Climate” of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014–2020 were those policy instruments that pursued environmental and climate goals over large areas unde...

Scientists, politicians, and practitioners are debating the current structure of pig farms in Lithuania, as medium and small farms have almost disappeared over the past decade. The debated problem is whether the revitalization of medium and small pig farms would sustainably contribute to self-sufficiency in pork production. Therefore, this research...

Scientists, politicians, and practitioners are debating the current structure of pig farms in Lithuania, as medium and small farms have almost disappeared over the past decade. The debated problem is whether the revitalization of medium and small pig farms would sustainably contribute to self-sufficiency in pork? Therefore, this research aims to de...

The study aims at evaluating crop insurance effects on the farms’ production and investment indicators in Lithuania. The Common Agricultural Policy after 2020 considers measures helping farmers to adapt to climate change. For this reason, it is essential to evaluate existing risk management measures in order to propose appropriate schemes for the n...

In recent years, humanity has faced with multiple crises, both of economic and environmental nature. Among the key reasons for such turbulences, the deteriorating agri-environmental situation appears as an important facet. This article evaluates agri-environmental situation of selected European Union (EU) countries using the multi-criteria decision...

The changes in farm structure have been observed in Lithuania as well as in other Central and Eastern European countries. These changes, to a high extent, have been driven by decreasing profitability of the small farms. In this paper, we look into the changes in the profitability of Lithuanian family farms across different farm size groups. Farm si...

Organic and integrated farming practices contribute to protecting biodiversity, reducing environmental pollution, improving soil quality, and providing high-quality raw material for food industry. The objective of the article is to establish the methodology and evaluate the system of indicators, which enables answering the question which farming pr...

Sustainable development of the agricultural sector, for which the successful implementation of the policy is important, is an integral part of the quantitative assessment of the potential impact of the newly implemented agri-environmental measures on the agricultural sector. The article deals with the problem of the conflict between the coordinatio...

China has experienced an uninterrupted growth of grain output during the past decade. However, a long-term analysis indicates fluctuations in productivity and output levels, as well as dramatic shifts in grain crop mix and regional distribution. This paper, therefore, re-examines the major factors behind the dynamics in China’s grain production ove...

Climate change mitigation is a key issue in formulating global environmental policies. Energy production and consumption are the main sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Europe. Energy consumption and energy-related GHG emissions from agriculture are an important concern for policymakers, as the agricultural activities should meet food sec...

A new United Nations sustainable development Agenda underlines the relevance of Organic farming development. In the same line the Government of the Republic of Lithuania seeks to create economically efficient and competitive agriculture, based on low environmental impact farming, to develop organic farming and high quality certified agricultural an...

Agricultural sector requires analysing and managing multiple risks as agricultural production might be affected to a number of unfavourable institutional, economic and environmental factors. This study aims to identify the patterns of production and price risk in Lithuanian crops farming. Specifically, we look at two interrelated types of risk and...

The aim of this research is to propose a methodology for integrated assessment of financial risks of family farms in Lithuania. The methodology is based on the benefit of the doubt model. The research relies on the farm-level data from Farm Accountancy Data Network and covers the period of 2004-2011. Multiple financial indicators are included in th...

The paper aims to evaluate the impact of support on Lithuanian farms investments. Logistic regression, also called a logit model, was used to determine the probability of investing. The regression was estimated on cross-sectional data set of Lithuanian family farms participating in the Farm Accountancy Data Network. It was specified for investments...

This paper presents a methodology for flood risk mapping as envisaged by the Directive on the Assessment and Management of Flood Risks [Directive 2007/60/EC]. Specifically, we aimed at identifying the types of flood damage that can be estimated given data availability in Lithuania. Furthermore, we present the main sources of data and the associated...

The paper aims to analyse the main driving forces behind the changes in milk revenue in Lithuania during 1993–2013 by the virtue of the index decomposition analysis. Specifically, an index decomposition model based upon Shapley value is introduced to account for dynamics in endogenous and exogenous factors underlying dynamics of the revenue. Partic...

Turkish agricultural sector plays an important role in the global market. After the accession to EU Turkey will become important competitor to those countries where export of agricultural and food products are comparatively large. This suits to Lithuania and for this reason it is necessary to compare agriculture sector of those countries, which sig...

Investment is important at the state and company level. Although various authors examine the determinants of farms’ investment, analysis is often limited to one investment theory. Moreover, investment decisions in agriculture don’t always comply with investment theory. Therefore, a systematic approach for evaluating the determinants of farms’ inves...

This article presents insights into the efficiency of Lithuanian family farms. The research covers the years 2004–2009 and is based on farm-level Farm Accountancy Data Network data. Bootstrapped data envelopment analysis was employed to obtain efficiency scores, whereas stochastic kernels and multivariate methods, viz. fuzzy clustering and nonparam...

This paper analyses the productive efficiency of the Lithuanian family farms during 2004-2009. The productive efficiency of Lithuanian family farms was estimated on a basis of Farm Accountancy Data Network sample by the means of data envelopment analysis, which did indicate that the average technical efficiency fluctuated around 65.8%, whereas the...

Lithuania has developed several important climate change mitigation policy documents however there are no attempts in Lithuania to develop local climate change mitigation policies or to decentralize climate change mitigation policy. Seeking to achieve harmonization and decentralization of climate change mitigation and energy policies in Lithuania t...

The objectives of the Rural Development Programme for Lithuania for the period 2007 to 2013 are to: (a) preserve natural and cultural heritage objects, (b) support complementary activity in the rural areas, and (c) generate rural tourism as an economic sector. The aim of this study is to identify current trends specific to the Lithuanian rural tour...

This paper analyses the total factor productivity in the Lithuanian agricultural sector, namely family farms reporting to the Farm Accountancy Data Network. More specifically, the Malmquist productivity index and data envelopment analysis are employed to analyze productivity changes and thus define respective policy implications. The research cover...

The article presents the experience of development and functioning of the producer organizations in the period of 2000-2004. This experience is quite important for Lithuania as its agricultural products face year by year growing competition from old EU member state farmer's production. Experience shows the most important proposal is to seek for new...

Medium-term prospects for key agricultural markets in Lithuania are analysed under alternative policies. Policy alternatives show the impacts of EU accession and also the impacts of implementing AP reforms in 2007. The model is a partial equilibrium, multi-commodity model where commodity prices are linked to key prices in major EU markets. The acce...

The measure "Meeting Standards Based on Community Legislation" was in the list of possible measures for Rural Development (RD) funding according to EU Regulation 1698/2005. The main aim – is to improve the quality of agricultural production and food products. The mate-rial of this article is the part of 6 th Framework project AGRIGRID. After carrie...

The measure "Animal Welfare Payments" was in the list of possible measures for Rural Development (RD) funding according to EU Regulation 1698/2005. The main aim – is to improve the environment and the countryside. The material of this article is the part of 6 th Framework project AGRIGRID. After carried out analysis it was determined that in most o...