Rasa Melnikienė

Lithuanian Center for Social Sciences

Food loss and waste is relevant for all stages of a food supply chain. Methodological and empirical solutions are needed to properly quantify these losses. The present paper embarks on the quantification of food loss in the Lithuanian food processing sector. This issue has not received substantial coverage in the literature yet, even though the tra...

This paper explores the issue of food waste in the Lithuanian retail sector. A questionnaire survey was designed in order to collect the relevant data from both the largest retail chains with stores around the country and companies with small-scale stores in rural areas. The present case is interesting as the literature on Central and Eastern Europ...

This study presents an innovative approach to measuring the impact of EU CAP direct payments on the economic resilience of agriculture at a sectoral level. The construct of resilience is approached from the perspective of the resilience of the main functions of the sector. The overall level of direct payments impact on sectoral economic resilience...

Food loss and waste occur along the whole food supply chain and need to be addressed by dedicated strategies. Among all the stages of the food supply chain, food loss in primary production has been the least studied to date. In order to address this gap, this paper focuses on on-farm food loss, using Lithuania as a case study. The research comprise...

The research subject of this monograph is multi-sided collaborative networks designed to help farmers and other entrepreneurs in rural areas to develop and accelerate the processes of business servitization in collaboration with a wide range of actors and groups. Even though service-driven business models are already used quite often in farming pra...

Today’s most advanced economies are fundamentally knowledge-based [Dunning, 2000] and the knowledge has become by far the most important factor determining standards of living – more important than land, capital or labour [Cooke, Leydesdorff, 2006]. Therefore, knowledge has influence on all spheres of human life. This paper is devoted to examining...

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...

At the beginning of the 21st century, rural policy remains one of the most important areas of public policy; huge financial and human resources are devoted to the implementation of this policy measures. The aim of the article is to provide holistic evaluation of the goals, means and key achievements of Lithuanian agricultural policy and to identify...

With the aim to explore the boundary effects of the Sino–US trade war, this study considers a multi-region CGE model to set up six trade disruption scenarios based on the severity of trade friction, and empirically examines the gains and losses for China and the US, as well as potential impacts on other countries. The results show that: (1) Sino–US...

In this paper, we model the effects of electricity generation on multiple environmental pressures. Given the environmental considerations, we assume a decrease in the carbon footprint and adjust the energy-mix by increasing the use of renewables. We combined a footprint approach and pinch analysis to devise the optimal energy-mixes and quantify the...

This paper aims at measuring productivity and efficiency of China’s three most important grain crops–rice, wheat and maize–as well as identifying the main directions of technical change prevailing in their production. The bias-corrected Malmquist production indices are employed to measure the technical changes (TCs) in terms of input-saving or inpu...

The theory of sustainable development has become a key concept according to which the European Union and other developed countries have been formulating the long term agricultural policy over the past few decades. Applying this theory into practice, the challenges which derive from the integrity of the objectives of sustainable development are bein...

Socioeconomic development requires meeting the goals of food security. Yield risk constitutes an important factor of farming business viability. As the Central and Eastern European countries have been affected by both economic and environmental transformations, there is a need to develop a robust methodology for assessment of yield risks in order t...

Environmental issues have been one the most important for sustainable agricultural development in recent years. The EU common agricultural policy (CAP) direct payments (DP) system, which requires the most significant financial resources, should also promote environmental sustainability in agriculture. However, there is a lack of systematic approach...

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...

Public policy makers are increasingly focusing on essential differences revealed after the transition of the economic system into the post-industrial stage. In the context of fast changes in rural areas, the greatest challenges are faced by those engaged in drafting rural policy programmes. The article introduces a research that corroborates increa...

Dinamiska žemės ūkio aplinka ir dėl klimato kaitos bei rinkų nestabilumo kylantys nauji issūkiai reikalauja is ūkininkų žinių ir gebėjimų lanksciai taikyti vadybos metodus ūkių veiklos tobulinimui. Straipsnyje pristatomas tyrimas, skirtas įvertinti vadybos žinių taikymo lygį Lietuvos ūkininkų ūkiuose bei parodyti taikomų vadybos metodų skirtumus at...

The paper examines the provision of financial support to farmers. The article includes an overview of the common agricultural policy, its main goals, developmental stages, funding of direct payments as a key element of farmers support and funding issues caused by the EU enlargement. The paper describes the European Commission's proposal for a finan...

Rinkos sąlygomis asmeninių poreikių žinojimas leidžia racionalizuoti ekonominę žmonių veiklą, kuria siekiama patenkinti tuos asmeninius poreikius, ir geriau panaudoti turimus išteklius. Poreikių pokyčius būtina įvertinti ir formuojant valstybės socialinės ir ekonominės politikos prioritetus. Mūsų šimtmetyje, sugebėjus mokslo ir technikos laimėjimus...

Vykdant Lietuvoje visuotinę būsto fondo privatizaciją teko atsisakyti gyventojų masinio aprūpinimo gyvenamuoju plotu iš valstybės lėšų mechanizmo, kurio funkcionavimas rėmėsi tuo, jog planinės ekonomikos laikotarpiu vyravo valstybinė būsto fondo nuosavybė, o gyventojų aprūpinimas gyvenamuoju plotu buvo viena iš pagrindinių valstybės funkcijų. Valst...