The aim of the paper is to present the influence of EU enlargement on food consumption level and on the raw agricultural products prices in Poland. The analysis of consumption level of selected food products asserts that trends have been continued since the 90s. and Polish accession to the EU...

Occurrence of land rent in agriculture of the EU is confirmed by the growing long-term trend of agricultural land prices. However, there is a question whether that rent is a differential one, linked with a different productivity of agricultural land, or absolute one in the classical sense, or an...

The paper attempts to contribute to the discussion of the agricultural support distribution in the framework of Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. Author used European Commission statistics of direct payments to explore the distribution patterns across farm holdings in EU Member...

Agriculture is a very specific sector of production and therefore requires a state intervention, which, however, has several negative effects, which tends to take action to liberalize agricultural trade. An important role in limiting intervention in the agri-food sector played by the Uruguay...

The EU bioethanol market has irrevocably entered the new era inaugurated by the Biofuels Directive. Most of the governments have decided to introduce mandatory ethanol blending into fuels to demonstrate their continuing political support for renewable energy sources and to encourage industry to...

The main aim of the article was to present chosen aspects of the economic situation of individual farms’ sector in Poland as compared with the situation observed in the EU in 2000-2005. A special emphasis was put on the agrarian, productive and income situation in sector. Comparisons of Poland...

The paper presents the state of the EU sugar market and the sugar beet market after the second year of their reform. The main purpose, i.e. reducing the sugar production by ca. 1/3 has been practically achieved. For Poland it means that from exporter our country, so far net exporter, will become...

Allocation of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) funds for agricultural sector in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) is presented. Volume of funds allocated per one farm, 1 hectare of agricultural land and 1 person employed in the analyzed sector is...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the changes in the efficiency of Greek agriculture production in the period 1911-2011, and to estimate the trends that emerged, especially after the country joined the E.U. in 1981. The applied methodology uses both quantitative methods (econometric...

The article concentrates on the analysis of economic mechanisms of export subsidies, which are currently used in agricultural trade. They induce numerous negative effects, leading to an ineffective allocation of resources on an international scale. The agreement reached in the recent years...