The article discusses the progress of changes in the area structure of individual farms and related to this changes in the number of workers in agriculture as well as the issue of unused labor resources in Poland. The research material are public statistics data (Polish Statistical Office –...

Agriculture productivity from the perspective of the food and renewable energy production. Technological aspects of biomass production for energy purpose. Results of Norfolk farms against other farms.

Demand-related premises of production growth and income allocation in the agri-food sector. Using the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models in the analysis and evaluation of the agricultural policy. Perspectives and effects of potential CAP changes in the light of modelling results....

The impact of integration into the European Union on Polish agriculture. The food industry during integration into the European Union. The impact of the common agricultural policy on agricultural markets. The competitiveness of Polish food producers after accession to the European Union.

The concept of research on socially sustainable agriculture. Features of sustainable agriculture. Sustainability of private farms in the light of selected criteria. Subsistence agricultural holdings and the sustainable development of agriculture. Sustainable farms in the light of the FADN data....

Scenarios for implementation of direct payments in the new financial perspective 2014-2020. “New Greening” of the Common Agricultural Policy and its importance for economic performance of the Polish farms. Projected effects of the new CAP legislative solutions for the large-scale commercial...

Demographic characteristics of the rural population: Age, Sex, Education, Economic activity. Socio-demographic characteristics of selected groups of the rural population: Outward migration, Farm managers, Persons pursuing non-agricultural activities in rural areas.

The Polish food economy in the first years of EU membership. The impact of the European Union structural funds on rural development in the first years of membership. The general concept of rural development support from structural funds and the Cohesion Fund in 2007-2013. The monitoring and...

Theoretical grounds for the use of the public policies. Influence of global factors on the Polish food economy. Changes in the Polish agriculture after the accession to the EU. The effects of the CAP for the food industry. Agricultural land as a production factor for non-agricultural sectors of...

Selected aspects of forecasting. Materials and research methods and the treatment of results. Projection for 2014 of production costs and economic performance of selected agricultural products: winter wheat, winter rye, spring barley, winter rapeseed, sugar beet.