Restructuring market relations in food and agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe: Impacts upon small farmers.

Regional Outcome: Central and Eastern Europe, Regoverning Markets programme. Edited by Csaba Caki, Csaba Forgacs, Dominika Milczarek-Adrewjewska and Jerzy Wilkin. Agroinform, Budapest, 2008.

Are small farms being marginalized in agricultural markets as new supply chains become dominant? This volume provides a regional collection of empirical and case study research from Central and Eastern Europe as part of the Regoverning Markets programme, coordinated in CEE by Corvinus University of Budapest Hungary.

Changing Agri-Food Markets - Impacts upon Small-Scale Farmers

Regional Seminar of Regoverning Markets Project "Changing Agri-Food Markets - Impacts upon Small-Scale Farmers" took place at Warsaw University on November 8-9, 2007. The major objective of the seminar was to discuss the results of the Regoverning Markets projects in Central and Eastern Europe with special reference to the studies and survey completed in the Polish dairy sector.

Regoverning Markets Innovative Practice series

by Anikó Juhász and Györthy Kürthy, Agricultural Research Institute, Hungary

This case study is about an agricultural cooperative, AVIUM, and a poultry processing cooperative, AVIUM 2000 in the Besnyő village, Hungary. AVIUM agricultural cooperative is a "new type" purchase and marketing cooperative. It was founded in 1993 - after the new cooperative law came into force - to reduce costs and offer agricultural related services. AVIUM had the aim to concentrate the supply of live chicken and to organize the joint procurement of inputs. However, in the region of AVIUM small-medium sized processors were not present. To fill this market niche and to acquire the market security and profit surplus, five members of the agricultural cooperative established in 1999 AVIUM 2000 poultry processing cooperative.

A Regoverning Markets Agrifood Sector Study 

By Jerzy Wilkin, Dominika Milczarek, Agata Malak-Rawlikowska and Jan Fałkowski

This is a study sites of the rapid and considerable restructuring of the dairy-supply chain in Podlaskie and Warminsko-Mazurskie regions of Poland, to provide valuable insights for other regions that are behind in the restructuring process, and lead to useful policy recommendations.

The effectiveness of Hungarian food safety measures are criticised since food safety officials confirmed a link between outbreaks of avian influenza in Hungarian domestic turkey flocks.

Press conference"The future of small agricultural producers" seminar on the first result of Regoverning Markets international project in CEE was held at Corvinus University of Budapest on 6 December 2006.

Countryside

CEE-Foodindustry, 30 November 2006 

Private label branding in the Romanian food and beverage industry has helped to drive massive growth in the sector, as retailers, packagers and processors benefit from increasing competition in the market.

Tesco-Global stores has announced recently that it will create more than 700 new jobs in Hungary. This is a part of an expansion process in the food retail market, despite what it describes as a difficult market.

This is in addition to 1,500 new jobs already created by Tesco's this year, of which ten per cent are management positions. Tesco-Global has already established 90 stores and 47 petrol stations in Hungary and became the largest retailer chain in Hungary. As part of a larger expansion within the market Tesco plans to increase it's workforce to 19,000 by the end of 2006.

As agricultural conditions change as a result of global warming, genetically-modified organisations will have an increasing role to play in safeguarding food supply for the future. Of course, everything depends on consumer acceptance.