The Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics (LIAE) presents the twentieth jubilee edition of the annual publication “Agricultural and Food Sector in Lithuania 2018”. In the course of two decades the publication has attracted a broad circle of readers. Informative material contained here might be useful for agricultural specialists and scientists, farmers and entrepreneurs, lecturers and students. Quite a number of ministries of the Republic of Lithuania, embassies and other state institutions make reference to this publication.

Scientific journal.

Journal is published published by Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy (former name Aleksandras Stulginskis University) and Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economic.

LIAE scientists participated in the social partners‘ meeting of the project „Agri Renaissance - Innovation-driven agri-food sectors for a European industrial renaissance“, funded by the Interreg Europe program, which took part on July 3, 2019 at the headquarters of the National Paying Agency (NMA) in Vilnius, Lithuania. The overall objective of „Agri Renaissance“ is to improve regional development policies and programmes under the Investment for Growth and Jobs goal in order to increase R&I resources and capacities of the agri-food sector, stimulate collaboration and foster its hybridization.

Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics is a partner in the Interreg project LARS - Learning Among Regions on Smart specialisation.

The LARS project aims at strengthening the regional innovation systems by transnational learning. LARS  helps the public sector lead Smart specialisation processes in their regions and connects innovation networks across regions. Right now LARS is moving towards its transnational learning phase.

On June 12-13, 2019 the 10th International Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region 2019 “Reduce - Reuse - Rethink” was convened in Gdansk (Poland), attracting over 700 participants of different fields and professions from more than 40 countries. This year Forum was devoted to the hot topic of circular economy and ways to meet recent development challenges in the Baltic Sea region and, at the same time, in the whole world.

Activity Analysis Framework for Structural Change–Productivity–Climate Nexus in Agriculture

This research is funded by the European Social Fund according to the activity ‘Improvement of researchers’ qualification by implementing world-class R&D projects’ of Measure  No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712

Holistic Risk Assessment in Agriculture: Concepts, Models, and Application (AGRIRISK)
No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-02-0020

The purpose of this post-doctoral fellowship research is to analyse the concept and models of risk management in agriculture, and based on the holistic paradigm, to formulate a comprehensive risk management model for agriculture.