Polish agriculture must face one of the fundamental dilemmas of development which is the choice of further direction of development. There are two main directions of development, i.e. the industrial and the sustainable model of agriculture. The first model means a higher intensity of farming,...

The paper presents results of own research as well as research of other researchers in the field of economic activity of rural inhabitants. Their elements which could be possibly interpreted from the perspective of the ‘insider-outsider’ theory were selected. This theory assumes that there...

The article deals with the issues of direct farm payments scheme aimed at an equalization of their level between Polish producers and those in the EU-12 or EU-15 countries. Such politically based view has been recently propagated in Poland. An analytical, theoretical and empirical approach is...

The aim of the paper was to display the agricultural material supply, global production and gross value added in agriculture in the EU countries. In higher developed countries the sectors providing means of production and providing services (sphere I) as well as food and fodder processing...

The last important price changes within the food delivery chain caused a growth of food prices and a higher inflation rate. In the face of those circumstances the activities for improvement of food delivery chain have become very important, since it affects directly all citizens. The analysis...

A growing interest in agrarian issues has been identified on the international level since 2006. The main reason for this change in approach to agriculture is a rise in the world food prices and the limitation of economic and physical access to food (mainly for food net importing countries)....

The article presents the functioning of social economy in rural areas based on a case study of social cooperatives. 14 units were characterized basing on a survey, which had declared their financial condition as good. According to the research a key role in this success plays a multiple business...

The level of earned incomes and renewal of fixed assets differed significantly among farms in the EU-25 group in years 2004-2006. The analysis of farms belonging to three biggest classes of economic size showed that abilities to self-finance reproduction, to reproduce fixed assets and to make...

This paper investigates the possible development of Ukrainian agriculture in terms of creation of a free trade area (FTA) with the European Union. Prospects for export-import relations between Ukraine and the EU as well as the competitiveness of domestic agricultural goods in domestic and...

Today no country in the world can hope for achieving a sustainable competitiveness of the national economic complex and, consequently, for its bright future, without its successful adaptation to the market management conditions. The article deals with the problems of a respective agrarian sector...