The study reviews and assesses functioning of subsidized crop and livestock insurance as regards the level of their use and determination of factors motivating and demotivating to conclude insurance contracts by farmers. Chapters: Risk and traditional agricultural insurance – theoretical...

From the beginning of the financial crisis – 2008/2009 – the EU entered an unprecedented period of very serious shocks. These problems first affected the economy (weak and highly variable growth with times of rather shallow recession, high unemployment, especially among young people) and...

The aim of study is to assess the current and postulated solutions of the tax system and insurance scheme in the Polish agriculture by pointing to the consequences of the adopted design for realization of the basic functions of these instruments.Chapters: Agriculture taxation in Poland. Income...

The latest perspective of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) focuses in particular on risk management (RM) issues due to the need for aligning the CAP to the new agricultural operating conditions. The future of agricultural policy has become, as never before, increasingly climate-dependent and...