The Common Agricultural Policy has a minor impact on pork and beef market in Poland, though it has at its disposal a wide range of instruments. The abolition of customs barriers after the Polish accession to the EU in May 2004 increased the trade in pork and beef mainly with the European...

The meat sector in Poland is the biggest one in the Polish food economy. A foremost place in the red meat branch, after pork production, occupies the beef production. The paper presents an analysis of the cattle production in Poland on the background of other European Union countries in 2005....

Poland’s accession to the EU led to rapid adjustments in the Polish food sector. Opening the enormous common European market, with over 450 million consumers, forced the processing industry to face an extreme competition, while creating at the same time an increased outlet opportunity. Customs...

Potential accession of a number of eastern and central European countries into the European Union (EU) seems destined to lead to further reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The financial costs of absorbing these countries may be extreme. This report documents the modeling framework...

The status of competitiveness for the two most important food and beverage manufacturing sector s (meat processing and beverage manufacturing) in 13 EU countries is analysed empirically, using 1995 - 2002 Eurostat data. After a review of earlier agribusiness competitiveness studies an industial...

The European Union tariff schedule includes a large number of specific and composite tariffs as well as many tariff-rate quotas (TRQs), which affect the composition of imports. By altering price ratios between products with different unit values, both can generate the typical Alchian-Allen...

The objective of this research is to investigate the potentials trade of dairy products between origin countries including selected EU countries and the U.S. on one hand, and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, on the other hand. Results showed that when destination country’s real...

The present research aims to achieve a retrospective analysis of sustainable policies for the development of beekeeping in Romania, an important sector that contributes to the development of rural areas. Romanian’s objectives regarding the development of this sector are based on the adoption...

The present study is part of the PPLPI effort to identify significant political and institutional factors and processes that currently hinder or prevent the poor in developing countries from taking greater advantage of opportunities to benefit from livestock. The study examines the political...