This 2009 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system. It is meant to be a multi-purpose reference document to provide: an introduction to the agriculture and agri-food system; a snapshot of structural changes that are occurring throughout the system in...

This report was prepared by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial (FPT) Working Group (WG) on Economic Analysis at the request of FPT Assistant Deputy Ministers (ADMs) in an effort to study the challenges and opportunities that are arising from the trends and factors affecting the sector's long...

This report is the second chapter of the final report prepared by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial (FPT) Working Group (WG) on Economic Analysis at the request of FPT Assistant Deputy Ministers (ADMs), in a joint FPT effort to study the challenges and opportunities facing the agriculture and...

Competitiveness and competition are basic categories of the market economy. While analyzing the foreign trade they acquire an international aspect. After the Polish accession to the EU, the Polish dairy industry showed a very favourable performance as regards the foreign trade, which can confirm...

The aim of the paper was to assess the competitive position of the most important producers of plant raw materials in the intra-EU trade in 2004 and 2008. The analysis covered such product groups as cereals, oil seeds, fruit and vegetable. The competitiveness was assessed with the use of a...

The aim of this article is to present the problems of cost competitiveness of Polish dairy farms and selected European countries. Comparisons were used to study IFCN and Agricultural Census 2010. As can be seen from the analysis, the majority of farms in Poland are uncompetitive in terms of cost...

Despite the continually growing value of agricultural trade of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland, agricultural trade in the case of all of the countries of the Visegrad group represents only a marginal part of the total merchandise trade. The agricultural trade of the individual...

This report provides a time-series statistical overview of agricultural trade by the United States, 113 foreign countries, and principal regions. It also provides statistics for 15 agricultural industries. The authors present various economic statistics, including export and import shares,...

Az írás célja a kelet- és közép-európai országok mezőgazdaságának technikai hatékonyságát és külkereskedelmi versenyképességét elemző cikkek irodalmi összefoglalása volt, segítséget nyújtva ezáltal a téma iránt érdeklődő fiatal kutatóknak. Rövid összefoglalónk...

Az agrár- és vidékfejlesztési támogatások a világ számos országában igen jelentősek. Magyarországon a 2008-ban kifizetett támogatások a szektor által előállított bruttó hozzáadott érték közel 44 százalékát tették ki. Ezt a juttatást – egyfajta közvetett adóként...