INCOME, EXPENDITURES AND AGRIFOOD CONSUMPTION OF THE RURAL POPULATION IN ROMANIA – AN OVERVIEW OF THE LAST TWO DECADES Camelia Gavrilescu, Camelia Toma, Crina Turtoi Institute for Agricultural Economics Romanian Academy “20 years of farming and rural transition in Eastern European countries: what have we learned?” A conference Rural'Est-SFER, 20-21 october 2011, Agrosup Dijon, France
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INCOME, EXPENDITURES AND AGRIFOOD CONSUMPTION OF THE RURAL POPULATION IN
ROMANIA – AN OVERVIEW OF THE LAST TWO DECADES
Camelia Gavrilescu, Camelia Toma, Crina Turtoi
Institute for Agricultural EconomicsRomanian Academy
“20 years of farming and rural transition in Eastern European countries: what have we learned?”
A conference Rural'Est-SFER, 20-21 october 2011, Agrosup Dijon, France
During the last 2 decades ...
Romania has made huge efforts to achieve several goals in its agrifood sector: to transform it from a centrally
planned to a market-driven one; to develop and modernise it; to adapt it to the requirements
imposed by the accession to the European Union
Rural area in Romania means …
45% of the total population (45.7% in 1990 44.9% in 2009)
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Factors influencing that trend…
Intrinsic to the agrifood sector: restructuring of land ownership and use; restructuring of the agrifood chains; Good / bad agricultural year
Extrinsic to the agrifood sector: restructuring in secondary and tertiary