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Abstract
Foreign direct investments (FDIs) should have a significant positive
influence on economic growth, export and competitiveness of host countries.
Although agriculture is of fundamental importance for sustainable development
and poverty reduction, FDIs in agriculture are modest, because they suffer from
more risks than FDIs in other fields due to the impacts of water, climate and
weakness of infrastructure, land and human resources.
National policies are key for attracting FDIs, and increasing benefits from
them. Because most of the FDIs in Serbia were market-seeking, privatization and
services related FDIs, they had limited impact on agricultural production and
export. To enhance its international competitiveness and export of agricultural
products Serbia should attract more FDIs in agricultural greenfield and export
oriented projects.