The idea of social insurance – theoretical aspects. Social insurance in agriculture. The organisation and functioning of the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (KRUS). The assessment of the agricultural social insurance system.

The importance of human capital – theoretical remarks. Selected determinants of human capital in rural areas in Poland. The social and demographic structure and vocational activeness of populations from holdings with various competitive abilities.

Semi-subsistence farms in the context of the future of CAP in Poland. The social and demographic structure of the semi-subsistence farm population. Social significance of the small acreage agriculture in Bulgaria.

This paper presents the results of a case study of local economic development in Dolina Strugu, Podkarpackie voivodship, Poland. Its aim is to analyse local development problems and chances, to investigate the potential of endogenous initiatives to support economic development, and to examine...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gap in economic development between rural and urban regions in Poland has continuously grown. Increasing income disparities and the lack of job opportunities have already led to an outflow of young people out of and an increasing obsolescence in rural areas....

The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of farm-level data collected in a survey of 464 Polish farms in 2000. Performance indicators of farms in three Polish voivodships are compared with farm accountancy data from two German Länder. The results show that Polish farms were much less...

The Polish food economy in the first years of EU membership. The impact of the European Union structural funds on rural development in the first years of membership. The general concept of rural development support from structural funds and the Cohesion Fund in 2007-2013. The monitoring and...

The CAP measures on specific markets: cereals, rape and feedingstuffs, sugar, milk and milk products, meat, fruit and vegetables, potato starch, beverages and highly processed food products. The impact assessment of the CAP on agricultural markets in Poland.

The Polish food economy in the first years of EU membership. The impact of the European Union structural funds on rural development in the first years of membership. The general concept of rural development support from structural funds and the Cohesion Fund in 2007-2013. The monitoring and...