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...

The aim of the article was to present changes affecting economic policy and macroeconomics conditions of states. We took into account the establishment of the integrative group by the combined countries. The evaluation looks at Mercosur and covers 17 years, 1995-2011. Differences between...

The article compares development prospects of rural areas within confines of the Common Agricultural Policy, looking at Mazovian province 2014-2020, and determining the most important difference between 2007-2013 PROW and 2014-2020 PROW. Comparisons indicate that new policies do not differ...

In the article one presented changes in the resource allocation of the land and the agricultural labour in 30 countries. One paid attention on the differentiation in these processes in countries. We presented dominant processes and curiosities. One evidenced the meaning of the financial support...

The article presents changes in the structure of total agricultural holdings and in individual agricultural holdings with the area exceeding 1 ha in years 2002 and 2010. Those changes resulted from the increased concentration of land in agricultural holdings with over 20 ha of arable land. The...

The paper discusses the question of social meaning of small agriculture holdings. The main purpose of the paper was to present basic social roles of small agriculture holdings. Particular attention has been focused on the fact that the society requires the functioning of these entities by...