Scientific publications

With the aim to describe a potential of stakeholders participating in agrarian policy making, the article analysis characteristics of the typical farmer who is interested in involvement into organizations of common interest. The analysis of the data received from 1108 representatives showed that although the willingness to cooperate in order to protect common interests is expressed by every second person, only a tenth of farmers participate in agricultural organizations.

Over the last decade, Lithuanian pork sector faced dramatic changes, where trade relations with Russia had an important role. The research problem is defined as follows: how does the trade ban of Russia, imposed towards live pigs and pork originating from Lithuania, affect price changes on domestic Lithuanian pork market?

Bioeconomy is an important element of European Union (EU) political agenda. Promotion of bioenergy is one of the main aspects of bioeconomy strategy. The aim of this paper is to show how the development of bioenergy can contribute to climate change (and the associated policy). Specifically, we look into the possible reduction of GHG emissions within the framework of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC).

Purpose – The new programming period of 2021-2027 of the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy requires reconsidering the policy measures. In the new period, the European Commission is to allow each member state (MS) developing eco-schemes to support and/or incentivise farmers to observe agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment beyond their mandatory requirements. The purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of organic and conventional family farms.

Mohammad Dalvi-Esfahani, Hamed Shahbazi, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Sarminah Samad, Abbas Mardani, Dalia Streimikiene Dalvi-Esfahani M., Shahbazi H., Nilashi M., Samad S., Mardani A., Streimikiene D. 2018. Factors Influencing Beliefs Formation towards the Adoption of Social Commerce in SME Travel Agencies. In Economics and Sociology, Vol.11, No.3, p.207-225, ISSN 2071-789X; DOI: 10.14254/2071- 789X.2018/11-3/13; [Indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index].

he broad society had already issued the question about the EU support distribution principles for agriculture of ongoing period with regard to chief beneficiaries from direct payments and other support measures. The changing understanding of responsibilities, which arise alongside the farming activities, keep shaping the industrial meaning of agriculture as public goods’ provider.

Potato sector is one of the competitive areas of the European Union (EU) agriculture. Although Eurostat declared that in 2015 Lithuanian share in the EU-28 harvested production was modest and composed only 0.7%, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOSTAT), this crop remained on the list of top 10 commodities by net production value in Lithuanian agriculture.

During last decades the essential shift occurred in the structure of the economy from industrial product-driven to the post-industrial service-driven economic system. A growing number of manufacturing firms throughout the world are shifting from selling goods in anonymous market to offering more and more services alongside their products. This movement is termed “servitization”. The movement is pervading almost all industries but still is weak in agriculture.

This paper aims to explain a conceptual background for an emerging agrarian discourse in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research. Socially responsible provision of public goods is examined by encompassing a shift in paradigms and approaches from the industrial phase of development with economic/profit dimension, emphasized by the theory of public goods, to the post-industrial phase of development with moral dimension, empowered by knowledge-based economy, sustainability and further development of the theory of CSR.

The planning of sustainable energy systems has been acknowledged as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. However, most of the earlier literature has considered public and private impacts of the energy generation technologies in a stand-alone way. In this paper, it is argued that the sustainable planning of the energy systems and components thereof should involve both types of impacts simultaneously in the MCDM.