Rural development in the European Union has to face several challenges such as increasing international competition among agricultural markets; growing needs for rural services (multifunctional agriculture); Eastern enlargement: increase in number and area of distressed regions and growing...

Sustainability is a central target of rural development and common agriculture policy. For ages organic farming has seemed to be the main answer to the question. The article wants to introduce organic farming's characteristics and development in the last decades and the role of CAP in this...

This report is a part of the research topic "The impact of structural funds of the European Union on rural development in the first years of membership. The general concept of supporting this development from structural funds and the Cohesion Fund in 2007-2013" (Wpływ funduszy strukturalnych...

The purpose of the study is to analyse the proposals concerning the Common Agriculture Policy. The authors of chapters focus on the possible consequences of the future shape of CAP, particularly for the food sector and rural areas in selected European countries