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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...
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Agriculture has always been exposed to a wide spectrum of risks. But it is largely undisputed that farmers have faced … modern intensive agriculture from the wider public and the mass media are just a few of the risks farmers have to cope with …. Therefore, risk management has become highly relevant in agriculture. In this paper, we highlight the need for systematic risk …
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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...
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The aim of the paper was to evaluate the information included on packaging of selected food products (liquid fruit-vegetable goods like juices, nectars, drinks), especially information having influence on the formation of consumers dietary knowledge. The research was conducted in shops of two...
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The purpose of the paper was to point out causations and changes concerning fruit and vegetable quality in the domestic market. For this end attention was paid to legal aspects of assuring fruit and vegetable quality in the European Union market. Results of commercial and health quality of fruit...
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responsibility [CSR] strategies. Against this background, we conducted an online survey of 170 agribusiness firms in order to shed … other, the rejection of GMOs by European consumers. The empirical results show that many agribusiness firms perceive the use … of GMOs as a highly relevant management issue that shapes their CSR strategies. All in all, agribusiness firms apply a …
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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...
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Introduction of European food law in Poland has caused changes in the governmental activities aimed at ensuring the appropriate quality of food products including fishery products. Food hygiene and food safety have gained in importance. However abolition of the obligatory Polish Standards has...
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Observed increased volatility of world commodity prices causes an increase of risk exposure. Thus market participants … volatility in selected EU member states. Results of the analysis indicate a dispersion of volatility among the analyzed countries … indicates a high possibility of outliers’ existence. Volatility of wheat prices is conditional which implies a need of using …
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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...
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