This paper presents the possible development scenario of the Polish agricultural sector till 2020. It also assesses the impact of macroeconomic growth, CAP reforms and worldwide policies towards the agriculture on this development. The scenario is build using an extended version of the Global...

This paper analyses the competitiveness of fruit and vegetable producers. Research was carried out as an attempt to identify the variables that determine companies’ ability to achieve a competitive advantage. The results of qualitative research are presented in the paper. Interdependence of...

Price linkages between the Polish and foreign markets of grains and pork were investigated in the paper. The analysis indicates a decrease in price differences between the Polish and the EU markets and their increase between the Polish and the US markets. Causality tests and VAR models indicate...

The food industry is one of the low technology sectors. This does not change the fact that it has the largest share of industrial production in Poland. This in turn follows from the fact that the national economy consists for the largest part of low technology production which is typical for...

The paper presents changes in the structure of population's economic activity following a division into urban and rural population. The period of investigation covers years 1993-2009. The research deals with synthetic measures of the intensity of structure transformation as well as with average...

The aim of this research is to verify the hypothesis of the weak form efficiency of capital market. The research is conducted for the WIG-Spożywczy index. In the paper, Wald-Wolfowitz’s test, Quenouille’s test of autocorrelation coefficients, the test of joint autocorrelation with Ljung-...

Changes of land prices in years 2004 through 2009 are presented. The aim of this article was to study the relations between the location of farm and the land price. The scope of the study includes 16 voivodeships of Poland. The study applies to farms with area of 50 hectare and more. Moran...

A central aim of the Regional Policy of the European Union is a regional cohesion. Major instruments are regional policy programs financed via various European funds. The allocation of regional policy funds varies dramatically across regions even when one controls for regional development...

The aim of this study was to investigate the spatial relationships occurring between the price of agricultural land and its quality as well as other factors determining the productivity and the economic value of property. The paper uses multivariate regression analysis of spatial autocorrelation...

The aim of this paper is to determine the scale of diversification of provinces in Poland. The investigated time interval is years 2001 to 2007. The research covers 19 variables that allow for grouping voivodeships in homogenous clusters. The analysis was conducted using the k means method. /...