Over fifteen years have elapsed since the transition from the centrally planned economic system started in the early 1990âs. During this time agricultural and rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone profound structural changes with wide variations in the degree of...

Global food market – new conditions for national sectors. Flexible adaptation of farms to the requirements of the CAP in the new financial perspective after 2014. Phenomena occurring in agriculture of the EU Central and Eastern European countries after 2004 and conclusions for the future....

Institutional restrictions concerning growth and development of Polish farms. The Russian agricultural sector and WTO: advantages and disadvantages. Policy and economic rent as sources of agricultural producer’s income. An analysis of current economic problems and development factors in...

The study is an attempt to define the role of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the Polish foreign agri-food trade and to examine the competitive position of agri-food products made in Poland in the markets of the CIS group of states in 2000-2009. A deliberately selected set of ex...

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 aim of this article is to determine the significance of the food industry in the national economy in the European Union countries. An analysis of the production resources, structure of entities, as well as analyses of production volume, gross value added and share in national economy were...

Multi-dimensional statistical analysis of the production and economic results recorded by the agricultural holdings in the EU countries in 2005 is conducted in the paper. Cluster analysis has been used. As a result of grouping five homogeneous clusters of holdings in the EU countries have been...

Some possible scenarios of Polish agri-food trade development are presented in the paper. Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), a computable general equilibrium model, was used to make some trade forecasts. The analysis showed that escalation of agricultural trade liberalization can result in a...

Growth prospects of foreign trade in meat products in Poland and the European Union are presented in the paper. Four scenarios considering different scale of the world agricultural trade liberalization were analysed. Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), a computable general trade equilibrium...

For a number of decades in the second half of the XXth century, agricultural land has been divided in Poland between three sectors: family, state owned and cooperative farms, with a dominating share of private, individual farmers in land use. As a result, ownership structure of agricultural land...