Structural Change, Productivity, and Climate Nexus in Agriculture: An Eastern European Perspective

Author Biography

Tomas Baležentis is a Principal Researcher and a Head of Department at Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics and a Professor at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He specializes in efficiency and productivity analysis and agricultural economics. Tomas Baležentis has been awarded the degrees of Ph.D. at Vilnius University (2015) and the University of Copenhagen (2015). Much of this research has been carried out in cooperation with researchers from Denmark, the Netherlands, China, Belgium, among other countries during research visits and mutual projects. He has published numerous articles in journals with an impact factor. Prof. Baležentis also serves as an editor and reviewer for SSCI/SCI journals.  Dalia Štreimikienė is working as the leading research associate at the Lithuanian Energy Institute and the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics and a Professor at Vilnius University, Lithuania. She is an expert on climate change mitigation and energy policies for the European Commission, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the United Nations Development Programme, the UNFCCC Secretariat, the World Energy Council and other international institutions. Dalia Štreimikienė has participated in FP 6 and FP 7 projects CASES and PLANETS and was leading many national projects linked to climate change mitigation, use of renewables and energy efficiency improvements. She has published numerous publications in SCI/SSCI journals with an impact factor.  Nelė Jurkėnaitė is a Senior Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics. In 2010, she graduated with a PhD in Social Sciences (Management and Administration) at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania. Recently, she worked on research and experimental development projects covering the following topics: price transmission, structural changes in agriculture, agricultural waste in the circular economy. Her research focuses on agricultural policy, farm viability, price transmission, and supply chains. Vida Dabkienė is a Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics and holds a PhD from Aleksandras Stulginskis University, Lithuania. She conducts research on various issues of sustainable development of the agricultural sector, particularly on environmental and economic sustainability. Currently, her research focuses on the economic analysis of farms, based on the CAP Strategic Plan of Lithuanian agriculture for the 2021–2027 programming period. She has published several papers on these issues in peer-reviewed international journals and is an author of a monograph.