With over a billion people in Africa, the issue of agricultural development and food security is extremely important. The paper investigates the historical engagement of China in the economic cooperation with Africa, as well as the Chinese and African alimentary needs leading to enhanced...

The article presents basic assumptions of implementation of the Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) and compares them to the practice in a farm involved in breeding pigs. An analysis of farm, on the basis of requirements of the Good Agricultural Practice contained in the Code of GAP, presents the...

The aim of the paper was to present the organization of agricultural consulting in Germany. The genesis of agricultural consulting, its role, and classification of agricultural consulting offer by financing and implementation, as well as organization of agricultural consulting in the federal...

In the article one presented changes in the resource allocation of the land and the agricultural labour in 30 countries. One paid attention on the differentiation in these processes in countries. We presented dominant processes and curiosities. One evidenced the meaning of the financial support...

The aim of this study is an analysis of the equipment in productive factors in the new regions against the background of regions in the old EU countries, and also an analysis of equipment in labour force, land and capital depending on the economic size of a farm. The analysis indicated that the...

A high decline in employment was one of the negative consequences of economic transformation in Hungary in the past few decades. The activity of rural population continues to decrease in the EU. Agriculture has a very special role in forming the employment. The aim of the research is to examine...

The EU and the USA remain the largest exporters of agri-food products. Protection of the environment and production potential of the areas used for agriculture have long been of interest in the EU and the USA. The need to ensure the capacity of agriculture facing climate change increases the...

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...

Multifunctional rural areas, multifunctional agriculture and multifunctional farms deliver many various marketable and non-marketable goods for society (including public goods). In recent years, discussion of the issue of public goods provided by rural areas, agriculture and farms became...

The aim of the paper was to discuss selected problems of Polish rural areas and agriculture. The main factors slowing down the development of rural areas and agriculture in Poland are unfavourable income situation by comparison to other economy branches, small size of farms (fragmented agrarian...