The paper, primarily, aims at presentation of the selected global and intra-European determinants of planning, running, updating and reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union. These determinants form a dynamic system of interactions of complementary (synergies), but...

World agriculture faces a serious challenge: how to guarantee a relevant quantitative and health standard of food provision to a growing, and probably increasingly more affluent population, at the same time, reducing – or at least not increasing – the pressure on the environment and climate...