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“Agricultural and Food Sector in Lithuania 2016" is the eighteenth edition of the annual publication by the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics (LIAE). This is an analytical economic survey of agriculture and processing industry, prepared referring to the statistical information, accountability data of companies, and the findings of research conducted by the LIAE staff.

Scientific journal. Journal is published Aleksandras Stulginskis University with the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics.

The study deals with decomposition-based analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in European Union (EU) Member States (MS). The policies shaping the trends in GHG emissions across the EU MS are analysed. The decomposition of GHG emissions is performed based on the Kaya identity approach. The Kaya identity is defined as an equation relating factors of the economic activity to the level of human impact on the climate change, as represented by the emissions of the greenhouse gas. In particular, carbon dioxide emission is the main component of the emission.

Scientific journal. Journal is published Aleksandras Stulginskis University with the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics.

In the end of XX century the approach to agriculture and rural development in the European Union began to change. From the concentration to development of competitive agriculture, the attention was focused on rural areas as whole, on the public needs not only for food, but other areas too.

Sustainable Development: crisis or regulation? : Scientific Monograph Division Tomas Baležentis Baležentis, T. 2017. Analysing the Energy-Economy-Environment Nexus in Agriculture: Applications of Frontier and Index Decomposition Techniques, In Sustainable Development: crisis or regulation? : Scientific Monograph, Podgorica: ELIT; SPH; CSZ, p. 419-473. ISBN 978-9940-673-10-9 [The National Library in Montenegro, Cetinje].

Though the essence of sustainable development is quite clear but the exact definition of sustainable development concept is still under discussions. There are more than 70 definitions of sustainable development that can be found in economic literature and which are mostly orientated to specific sectors for example nature, economics, civilization and expressing quite different aspects of sustainable development concept. Nevertheless the most appropriate definition conveying the idea of sustainable development is formulated in the communication of Brundtland commission (Brundtlan, 1987). Streimikiene, D. 2017. Sustainable Energy Development and Sustainability Assessments in Energy Sector, In Sustainable Development: crisis or regulation? : Scientific Monograph, Podgorica: ELIT; SPH; CSZ, p. 363-418. ISBN 978-9940-673-10-9 [The National Library in Montenegro, Cetinje].

The social and economic developments, in particular those related to the declined agricultural sector’s role in the rural economy, keep changing the lives of rural communities as well as people‘s motivation to live in rural areas. Most of these changes are the components of transition to post-industrial society evolution phase, which result in new success factors for rural vitality, fundamentally different from the success factors, specific to rural industrialization phase. This study aims to identify the most important factors that lead to post-industrial rural vitality and can be used for transforming the industrialized rural settlements, and adopting or evaluating strategic management decisions for rural areas in countries, having stepped onto the post-industrial society‘s evolution stage.

Scientific journal. Journal is published Aleksandras Stulginskis University with the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics.

Agricultural sector requires analysing and managing multiple risks as agricultural production might be affected to a number of unfavourable institutional, economic and environmental factors. This study aims to identify the patterns of production and price risk in Lithuanian crops farming. Specifically, we look at two interrelated types of risk and their impacts on farm revenue.