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Conclusions and recommendations. A. The economic and agricultural situation; B. Agro-food foreign trade; C. Agro-food privatisation and restructuring; D. Agricultural policies; E. Support to agriculture; F. Rural development policies and EU accession; G. Conclusions and recommendations -- pt. I. The economic and agricultural situation. A. General aspects; B. Macroeconomic developments; C. Agricultural situation -- pt. II. Agro-food foreign trade. A. Trade flows; B. Trade relations -- pt. III. Privatisation and structural change in the agro-food sector. A. Land ownership in Bulgaria: historical overview; B. Farm structures before 1990; C. The process of land and agrarian reform since 1991; D. Privatisation in the upstream and downstream sectors -- pt. IV. Agro-food policy objectives and measures. A. Agricultural policy framework; B. Price and income support measures; C. Foreign trade measures; D. Reduction of input costs; E. Infrastructural measures; F. Social measures; G. Environmental concerns and protection measures; H. Consumer measures; I. Overall budgetary outlays on agro-food policies -- pt. V. Evaluation of support to agriculture. A. Aggregate results; B. Exchange rate sensitivity; C. Composition of support; D. Analysis of support by commodity -- pt. VI. Rural development policies and EU accession. A. Rural development policy in the pre-reform period and in the 1990s; B. Definition of rural areas; C. General characteristics of rural areas; D. Rural development in the regional policy context; E. Rural development strategy and SAPARD.