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 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...

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...

Integrating processes between agriculture and food processing industry have been assessed basing on a study of information, qualifications, extension services in disposition of farmers in the Podkarpacie region in a mountainous southern part of Poland. Surveys of farmers and industrialists have...

The processes of economic globalization and liberalization of international trade cause an exposure of the agricultural producers activities to increasing risk, including that related to price volatility. This requires development and implementation of a wider range of risk management...

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of globalization on the agricultural and food sector. It is researched by analyzing the evolution of one of the key players in this process – transnational corporations. The article is divided into three parts. The first part consist of...

The paper presented a short review of research on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) estimates at the global level and in the selected countries. Moreover, own study on TFP in the Polish farms during 2004-2012 based on FADN data was shown. The TFP measures were calculated for crops, milk, pigs and...

The evaluation of technical efficiency of production has been a major issue of interest for economists since the 1950's. One of useful methods in that respect is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) which facilitates estimation of production efficiency based on results obtained by a specific set of...