The presented conception of multifunctional agriculture is a wider view of the process of creating and dividing the economic surplus in farming sector. It is a balanced approach which includes various aspects of creating the advantages for the community. The notion of agricultural...

The article presents the main objectives of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy after 2014 and assesses them from the point of view of Polish agriculture. It takes into account such issues as the level of the EU budget and its allocation for Poland, a new scheme of direct payments,...

Considerations over the direct payments in the support regime of farms in the European Union are presented. Their meaning is analysed and the existing weaknesses are indicated, as well as the beneficial transformations inspired by the direct payments. Necessity of redefinition of aims of the...