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Level of agrarian Governance sustainability in Bulgaria

Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences

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Title Level of agrarian Governance sustainability in Bulgaria
 
Creator BACHEV, Hrabrin Ianouchev; Institute of Agricultural Economics, Sofia
 
Subject Governance sustainability; Assessment; Agriculture; Subsectors; Agro-regions; Agro-ecosystems; Farming organizations; Bulgaria.
Q10; O31; O33; Q01; Q16; Q18.
 
Description Abstract. In Bulgaria, like in many other countries, practically there are no comprehensive assessments of the governance sustainability of agriculture and its importance for the overall agrarian development. This study tries to fill the gap and suggests a holistic framework for understanding and assessing the governance sustainability of Bulgarian agriculture. The newly elaborated approach is “tested” in a large-scale study for assessing the governance sustainability of country’s agriculture at national, sectoral, regional, eco-system and farm levels. The study has proved that it is important to include the “missing” Governance Pillar in the assessment of the Integral sustainability of agriculture and sustainability of agro-systems of various type. Multiple Principles, Criteria and Indicators assessment of the Governance sustainability of Bulgarian agriculture indicates that the Overall Governance Sustainability is at a “Good” but very close to the “Satisfactory” level. Besides, there is a considerable differentiation in the level of Integral Governance sustainability of different agro-systems in the country. What is more, the individual indicators with the highest and lowest sustainability values determine the “critical” factors enhancing and deterring the particular and integral Governance sustainability of evaluated agro-system.  Last but not least important, results on the integral agrarian sustainability assessment based on micro (farm) and macro (statistical, etc.) data show some discrepancies which have to be taken into consideration in the analysis and interpretation, while assessment indicators, methods and data sources further improved.Keywords. Governance sustainability, Assessment, Agriculture, Subsectors, Agro-regions, Agro-ecosystems, Farming organizations, Bulgaria.JEL. Q10, O31, O33, Q01, Q16, Q18.
 
Publisher Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences
 
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Date 2020-10-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JSAS/article/view/2110
10.1453/jsas.v7i3.2110
 
Source Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences; Vol 7, No 3 (2020): September; 136-168
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences; Vol 7, No 3 (2020): September; 136-168
2149-0406
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JSAS/article/view/2110/2112
 
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