Biodiversity conservation is an important element of EU environmental policy and it influences certain instruments of the Common Agricultural Policy (agri-environmental programmes, cross–compliance rules, organic farming support). These play an increasingly important role in this policy....

The paper contains the analysis of an introductory survey results carried out among organic farmers in Lower Silesia and in nine randomly selected voivodeships outside the region in 2008 and 2009. Thanks to the research, the key factors influencing organic farming were identified. It was...