Sustainability Impacts of Agrarian Governance in Bulgaria

This article incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics framework, and assesses the impact of diverse market, private, collective, public and hybrid modes of governance on agrarian sustainability at the current stage of development in Bulgaria. First, the system of agrarian governance and its analysis is outlined. After that dominating governing modes in Bulgarian farms of different juridical type, size, specialization, ecological and geographical location are identified, and their impacts on agrarian sustainability and its economic, social, and environmental pillars evaluated. In conclusion implications for further research, public policy improvement, and private managerial strategy formation are presented.