In years 2007-2008, prices of food and agricultural products surged dramatically all round the world. The time series analysis of monthly global prices from 1990 through April 2010 shows that prices for several commodity groups in 2007-2008 outpaced long-run price increases, suggesting many...

The volume of international trade and the share of foreign capital in companies as well as their dynamics in 2005 and 2010 have been analysed. It enabled a verification of the hypotheses on changes, forms and levels of internationalisation. The process of internationalisation depends on the size...

The article presents selected legal and economic aspects of dairy co-operatives and co-operative groups of agricultural producers operating in the milk market. Particular attention has been given to the organizational and fiscal issues as well as to the issue of financing the actions of...

The role of repayable sources in financing local governments’ expenditure in rural areas in Poland was examined. The analyses showed that during years 2005-2009 the expenditure of local governments in rural areas was rising. An especially high increase was observed in 2009. The shares of the...

The paper concerns current situation and major changes on the world market of apples and concentrated apple juice over the period of 2002-2012. Largest producers, exporters and importers were described, with particular focus on new market players that are of growing importance as regards the...

Four classification models of economic bankruptcy of farms based on panel data are presented in the article. The modelling techniques are linear discrimination function, pooled probit model, random effects probit model and artificial neural network. They give very similar quality of...

Financial ratios in farms integrated in FADN system were analyzed in the paper. The farms were situated in the Mazowsze and Podlasie regions. A particular attention was paid to liquidity and debt ratios. The liquidity ratios achieved the highest value in small, average-small and average-big...

In the article the state of foreign trade in meat products between Belarus and Poland is analyzed. Our countries for long years have been partners in this trade, first of all in pork products. However since March 2007 Belarus has ceased import purchases of Polish meat. In the article problems...

Growth prospects of foreign trade in meat products in Poland and the European Union are presented in the paper. Four scenarios considering different scale of the world agricultural trade liberalization were analysed. Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), a computable general trade equilibrium...

General information about Polish agri-food trade with six selected EU-15 countries after Polish accession is presented. Number of population in the chosen countries is similar and they have a high developed agriculture. The trade with these countries has a different turnover volume, value,...