This document contains the proceedings of the international conference called Agro-Food and Rural Economy Competitiveness in Terms of Global Crisis, held in Bucharest, Romania, on 23-24th September, 2011 with a international participation and it was published as a special issue of the journal...

The paper presents competitiveness and efficiency of the Polish fruit farms against similar farms from selected European Union countries. The analysis covered farms specialising in fruit trees and bushes covered by FADN monitoring in 2007-2009 and 2011-2013. Competitiveness of the researched...

The aim of the article is to contribute to the discussion and research devoted to the evolution of the agri-food sector in the period of systemic transformation, Poland’s membership in the European Union, and globalization of the world economy. The evolution of the Polish agri-food sector,...

Declining profitability of rice cultivation, changing patterns of food demand in the rapidly growing cities and liberalized Indian economy putting challenges before the planners and policy makers to maintain a steady growth of food grain production to feed the growing population and at the same...

This paper offers an overview for a special issue on agroindustrialization, globalization, and international development. It sets out a conceptual framework for understanding the links among these three broad phenomena and then discusses emerging issues and evidence concerning the factors...