Apart from the differentiation of productive capacity it brings about, industrial development also contributes to the employment and the redistribution of income among people, social classes and areas. Agricultural industries, in particular, usually located in rural areas, do not only contribute...

Poverty incidence is one of the most critical concerns in Botswana and the government has resolved to eradicate this problem and ensure that every citizen live in a dignified and acceptable condition consistent with the national aspirations as set out in the National Vision 2016. Currently,...

Policies for rural areas have become an important but complex policy field in the European Union`s Common Agricultural Policy. The purpose of this paper is to report on a methodological approach pursued to model the allocation of EAFRD (European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development) funds in...

The Common Agricultural Policy of the EU influences the agriculture in production but also in different functions as there are the function of resource protection, recreation, landscape diversity and spatial structuring. Especially in a comparison of regions on both side of the former Iron...

Serbia is a country in transition, the one which, after '90ies of the last century, has passed through number of difficulties, which had manifested in change of social and economic system, change of economic and social structure, and all other consequences followed by those changes. The path...

By this study, the intention of the authors is to analyze the state of the agriculture in two New European Union (EU) Member States, the influence of the European structural funds, the perspectives of the rural economies in the frame of the new European regulations and the tendencies in rural...

The rural space of Romania is characterised in terms of administrative breakdown, area and population, with reference to the NUTS classifications. This is followed by a demographic analysis of the gender and age structures, as well as migration flows. The rural-urban flows are considered, as is...

The position of Polish agriculture in the global food market. The Polish food sector in the first years of membership. The monitoring and analysis of changes in the Polish food supply chain. Polish agricultural holdings in the first years of membership – efficiency and competitiveness. The...

European Union transport and cohesion policies in the context of rural development. Investments in renewable energy sources as an opportunity for rural development. Support measures for rural entrepreneurship development in sectoral policies. Possibilities for the development of geographical...

Common Agricultural Policy and the regional diversification of Polish farming. The Structural Changes in the Rural Areas and Agriculture: the Case of the Czech Republic. Structural Changes in the Agri-Food Sector and in Rural Areas of Hungary. Regional differences of Bulgarian rural development....