STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCE IN ROMANIAN AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT

The main socio-economic tendencies of farm management in the Romanian agriculture in recent years reveal structural changes: rejuvenation of managerial body, acceleration of the transfer of land resource operation to younger managers; diminution of the consumption of labour force in the Romanian agriculture; increased productivity of labour involved in agricultural activities. Agricultural systems operate in a dynamic and complex environment, in a continuous change and subject to constant pressure generated by external shocks as economic and financial crisis, BSE crises, Foot and Mouth Disease and Bluetongue etc. ‘Resilience’ is a developing concept, which has been empowered to examine economic performance and responsiveness to exogenous shocks. In this context, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship between economic resilience and the changes in Romanian farm management under the impact of recent economic crises. The article concludes that the rejuvenation of farm management body is the adaptive answer of Romanian farm system to the current economic challenges.