The 2003 reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) replaced the coupled direct support schemes by a Single Farm Payment (SFP), which will be mainly delivered to farmers irrespective of what they produce (hence 'decoupled' from production). The level of decoupling differs...

The article presents the changes in the foreign trade in sugar, sales quota and non-quota sugar and the quota sugar sales prices during 2004-2012 in Poland. The reform of the sugar market in the European Union in 2006 led to a significant deterioration in the balance of Polish foreign trade in...

One of the major problems in the ongoing trade negotiations within the WTO is trade in agricultural products. In the case of the European Union, due to the significant level of protectionism in agriculture, an adoption of the WTO liberalization commitments in this area will mean a reform of the...

The paper presents the concept of econometric models for predicting the level of prices of raw milk in New Zealand, based on the prices of SMP, butter and cheddar cheese, as the products strongly correlated with the prices of raw milk. The article also states that the prices of basic products...

This scientific paper presents a consequent research of actual problems, trends and challenges in agricultural sector worldwide, in Europe and Latvia starting from global outlook and ending up with Latvian nationwide scale. The analysis of global and EU agricultural trends and problems has...

This paper investigates the possible development of Ukrainian agriculture in terms of creation of a free trade area (FTA) with the European Union. Prospects for export-import relations between Ukraine and the EU as well as the competitiveness of domestic agricultural goods in domestic and...

The main aim of the article was a presentation of interdependences in the agricultural policy between the WTO and the European Union in the conditions of globalisation. A specific objective was to highlight the rules of international agricultural trade and the new directions of WTO activities,...

The article presents the most important changes that have occurred in the sugar sector in Poland from 2001/2002 until 2010/2011. During this period, sugar production fell by 4.9%, the number of factories from 76 to 18, the daily processing by 57.2% and the number of employees during the campaign...

The purpose of this study was to present changes in the food industry in the countries of the European Union in the years of economic crisis, 2007-2011. On the basis of the data from the European Commission web pages and from the bulletin “Data & trends of the European Food and Drink...