In Hungarian rural areas the low level of population density and income, the unfavourable age structure and the other economic conditions signifi - cantly differ from urban areas; and the differences among micro-regions are also increasing, which results in different standards of living and...

Apart from the social and environmental elements of development, an economic aspect of organic production proves to be very important. Strong and weak points of organic milk production can be identified on the basis of a detailed analysis of accounting data at farm and product (milk) level. The...

On the basis of data on all of the Polish rural municipalities – close to altogether 1,600 entities – a preliminary study was carried out, meant to identify certain key characteristics of the population studied in terms of economic activity and its reflection through the...

The article presents results of the survey on farmers relations with institutions in Poland. The main purpose of this study is to outline correlation between agricultural holdings income and their relationships with the institutional environment. Findings showed that accessing the European Union...

The report presents the results from the analysis of the population of Polish rural municipalities. The analysis was related to broadly conceived “sustained developmentâ€. An essential aspect was also associated with “comparison†(yielding “development qualityâ€),...

The state of rural social infrastructure and its impact on the quality of life and functioning of rural communities are traditionally seen as marginal to the “mainstream†development activities. The low quality of social infrastructure is, however, an important factor in the...

LEADER axis presents a novelty in the Slovenian agricultural policy. The main object of the current paper is to describe the implementation process of the 4th axis of Rural Development Programme of Slovenia in the period 2007-2013 and analysis of the Annual Implementation Plans for the year 2008...

The primary aim of the present paper is to introduce a model which permits relevant, actual and continuous monitoring of the multifunctionality of agriculture in Slovenia and, using the model, to evaluate to what extent key elements of multifunctional agriculture were in fact infl uenced by...

At the beginning we delimited agricultural areas. Then we compared the picture obtained with the spatial diversity of human capital. The analysis of human capital was based on three groups of measures. They are related to investments on human capital, its resources and effectiveness of its...

The production of "local food" has gained importance in the public discussion during the last few years as a result of increasing general interest in food safety, as well as environmental concerns regarding food production and transport. Often-cited arguments for purchasing local products relate...