With over a billion people in Africa, the issue of agricultural development and food security is extremely important. The paper investigates the historical engagement of China in the economic cooperation with Africa, as well as the Chinese and African alimentary needs leading to enhanced...

The paper focuses on the issue of food aid as a kind of implementation of good governance and social responsibility of rich countries towards poor countries. The study may be characterized as a review. In the first part, hunger as a global problem of the modern world economy is taken under...

This scientific paper presents a consequent research of actual problems, trends and challenges in agricultural sector worldwide, in Europe and Latvia starting from global outlook and ending up with Latvian nationwide scale. The analysis of global and EU agricultural trends and problems has...

Requirements of food law contributed to an increase of competitiveness of meat and dairy industry thanks to a modernization of plant infrastructure. The implementation of the HACCP system from the point of view of company management should be treated as an investment which in the future brings...

The awareness of animal welfare and animal well-being is growing all over Europe and the world. The concerns are related to the applied policy regimes, economic sustainability of the production methods, food quality and safety, consumers’ health and behaviour and their willingness to pay for...

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are handled differently in different countries. Whereas global acreage of GMOs jumped to 134 million hectares in 2009 [Cultivation... 2010], in many European countries opposition to GMOs is still strong, and their acreage is very small. This situation poses...

The aim of the article was to present systems of beef classification in the context of revenue from production of beef of high and repeatable quality, on the basis of literature data on beef carcass classification systems in the world and on the possibility of beef quality prediction within the...

Ensuring high quality and food safety has become one of the priorities of the Common Agricultural Policy both at the European Union and individual countries within it, including Poland. Therefore, in the Rural Development Programme for 2007–2013 has been proposed in Measure 132 to a special...

Growing consumer requirements for fresh meat compel producers to use various packaging systems. The use of individual packages of meat is necessary because of the need to reduce the work in the back of the retail store, related to the cutting and meat repackaging. Because of that, the market of...

This paper provides an overview of problems posed by transgenic food. It covers the consumers’ opinions, survey results, and analysis of material from various national and foreign sources connected with the subject of genetically modified food. Moreover, the paper shows benefits from and...