The aim of the article was to present the dependency between the share of agriculture and total agri-food sector in the national income and the level of gross value added per capita in European Union countries. The article compares the internal structure and share of agribusiness in the national...

The aim of the paper was to display the agricultural material supply, global production and gross value added in agriculture in the EU countries. In higher developed countries the sectors providing means of production and providing services (sphere I) as well as food and fodder processing...

The main aim of the article was an analysis of the significance of imports in the supply of material for the Polish and German agri-food sectors. The results of the analysis point to the fact that foreign trade is an important factor stabilising the development of the food sector in Poland and...

The objective of the research is to compare the importance of agribusiness in the economies of the EU countries. The results suggest that the agribusiness share in national economy and its internal structure depends on the country’s level of economic development. In the better developed...

The main objective of the article was to analyze the importance of agriculture in the national economy in Poland at the macroeconomic and regional level, concerning its production potential (labour, capital and investments) as well as its production output and income. The results of the analysis...

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...

Factors determining agricultural commodity prices. Time series forecasting. X-12-ARIMA and TRAMO/SEATS procedures. Causal forecasting methods. Partial equilibrium models of the agricultural sector.

In the period of 1995-2013 the Polish agro-food export exhibited a very dynamic growth. It has happened under free-floating exchange rate system, which is believed to help stimulate exports when the Polish currency depreciates. Using some econometric procedures we have found that the exchange...

Agricultural commodities prices play crucial role both in farmers income determination and in price relationship establishment for the whole economy. Among the factors influencing the wheat prices, crude oil prices are considered as one of the most important. The aim of this paper was to assess...

In this paper we use weekly milling wheat price series for nine selected EU countries to evaluate levels and components of volatility in the period from July 2004 to April 2011 and to examine how sensitive the results can be to spatial aggregation of the price data. The prices were analyzed in...