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This book presents a new framework for understanding, analyzing and assessing farm contracts and competitiveness. It incorporates interdisciplinary approach and specifies different mechanisms of farm governance; defines types and features of farm contracts; identifies technological, institutional, behavioural, dimensional, and transaction costs factors for contractual choice; specifies effective modes for organizational and contractual arrangements; determines effective boundaries of farms; defines farm competitiveness, its criteria and indicators. Book analyzes structure and efficiency of farm contracts, and assesses farm competitiveness in Bulgaria embracing post-communist institutional and organizational modernization; evaluating efficiency of diverse modes for management of land supply, labour supply, service supply, inputs supply, finance supply, insurance supply, and marketing of farms; assessing competitiveness of unregistered, cooperative and business farms. Book would be helpful for scholars, farmers, policy-makers, representatives of non-governmental and international organizations, and all individuals who want to understand farm contracts and competitiveness.

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Associate Professor, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria. PhD, MSc, University of Economic, Sofia. He worked at Universities of Missouri, London, Kyoto, Kyushu, Toronto, Catholic University of Louvain, Central European University, INRA. Incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics into agrarian and rural sector.

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