The paper is an attempt at evaluating the degree of accuracy of realization of the project: distance learning centres in rural areas financed from the European Social Fund in the frame of the priority II: Development of knowledge-based society, action 2.1.: Broadening the access to education –...

This article offers an overview of farmers’ evaluation of governmental institutions in Poland serving agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture and Agricultural Market Agency) as well as points out to possible changes...

The EU membership requires introduction of significant changes in the agricultural sector. Such changes will not be possible without investments in human capital. The aim of the paper is to make an attempt at presenting the coincidence of three factors conducive to the development of lifelong...

The purpose of this study is an attempt to show the influence of farm economic size on the quantity and quality features of the manpower resources. The valuation of the quantity features was based on the number of fully employed workers working on farm. To valuate the quality features of the...

The purpose of the present study was to show the changes of rural unemployment after the integration of Poland with the European Union. The analysis was carried out on data coming from the Research of Economic Activity of Polish Residents made by GUS in the second quarter of 2004 and in 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...

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...