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Lately, the increase in the number of inhabitants of the planet has generated a greater demand for food and more specific products based on animal proteins, which has led to many debates regarding the livestock sector and meat consumption. All these debates refer to the…

This paper examines the performance database benchmarks that are available for both traditional relational database systems and Big Data technologies and ecosystems like Hadoop. It analyses the performance benchmarking in today’s database world where stakeholders want to make the choice between various data storage and…

The article discusses the ecological-industrial problems emerging while implementing the development strategy for the large agricultural manufacture sector in the national food supply system of the Russian Federation. The authors propose the main directions for improving the mechanism of managing the development of the sector…

The paper analyzed the concentration degree in Gross Domestic Product obtained in agriculture in the territory of Romania. For this purpose, the data provided by National Institute of Statistics  available for the period 2009-2018 were taken into consideration and four concentration indices: Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, Normalized…

The paper analyzed the consumption of fertilizers and pesticides in the world, the EU and Romania, based on the data collected from various official statistical information sources. The classifications and comparisons were made to establish the big and small consumers, the position of the EU…

The article reviews theoretical approaches to the study of the issue of digital transformation of food systems, identifies innovative trends associated with increase in demand for food, in the context of decrease in resources, increase in urbanization and change in the value orientations of population.…

Ensuring human health requires a balanced consumption of agri-food products, in which legumes and fruits have an important place. Vegetables are complex foods that contain many nutrients and vitamins essential for the proper and normal development of people. The paper analyzes the trends of vegetable…

The outburst of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the demanding situations confronted through Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), specifically in developing countries. The main sufferers of the COVID-19 eruption are small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). These article pursuits to evaluate the effect of the COVID-19…

The certification of agri-food products represents the commitment of the producers to ensure the quality of the product, the process offering a superior character to all the attributes of the product. The main feature of certified products is the quality, which is reflected both by…

The world community is presently grappling with the problem of ensuring global and national food security. Under conditions of increasing international political tension, military conflicts in different parts of the globe, the pandemic, connected with spreading of coronavirus infection, the problem of food security has…