The article attempts to present the basic information about the state and prospects of the effectiveness of enterprising actions in rural areas with regard to the unconventional, traditional and regional food, especially in Poland. It describes the past and future potential dangers resulting...

The paper aims to present how the plant varieties of foreign origin changed their share in the Polish seed market before and after EU accession. Changes in the period 1996-2008 were analyzed. They show that the number of foreign varieties of agricultural species increased significantly. In 1996...

The paper treats about traditional and regional food products which are subject of an increasing interest. It is based on secondary sources and personal research. Taking advantage of the available literature, articles in trade magazines and information in governmental websites, it defines and...

The article presents the idea and and the profile of agricultural productive cooperatives with regard to the object of their activity, their numbers and their spatial distribution in Poland. The article mentions also the organizational models of cooperativism in some EU countries and shows the...

The paper reviews the institutional structure or strategic framework, the Wine Industry Transformation Charter and Scorecard, adopted on 31 July 2007, through which good governance and social responsibility programmes are fostered, implemented and monitored in the South African wine industry. In...

The article presents the outcomes of rural dwellers’ migrations in the economic and social aspect. Apart from defining the phenomenon of external migration against the background of current social trends, also a review of motives for migration including the push factors (home country) and the...

Topic of good governance is an issue of great importance to quality of governance, understood as the manner and effects of governance, which basically amounts to administrative action. Recently the terms ‘governance’ and ‘good governance’ are being increasingly used in the literature....

The problem of employment in the agricultural sector has been brought up. A triple division of the working population between three main sectors in Poland has been introduced, pointing at changes in employment in the last few years. An analysis of statistical data allowed for observation of a...

Direct payments are one of the basic forms of support for agricultural income, which is used by 72-76% authorized farm households. Relation of number of applications to number of registered producers amounts to 80-85%. There is still a large number of farm households possessing above 1 ha of...

An attempt to analyse the marketing chain for the pig meat from a pig farm through meat processing to the market with the background of new market conditions in the EU-27 countries has been made. Components mentioned above and, especially, their stage of development have been discussed in a...