Authors define and explain the meaning of two concepts, namely human and social capital and their influence on the socio-economic progress in agriculture and rural areas. The presented studies and analyses point to the link between the growing role of these two factors and the general...

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...

The aim of this paper is to present the abuses and irregularities which were identified in agriculture, processing industry and trade of ecological products in the Czech Republic. The analysis shows that the most common are the irregularities in labelling the products. Other often occurring...

The aim of the paper was to evaluate the information included on packaging of selected food products (liquid fruit-vegetable goods like juices, nectars, drinks), especially information having influence on the formation of consumers dietary knowledge. The research was conducted in shops of two...

The purpose of the paper was to point out causations and changes concerning fruit and vegetable quality in the domestic market. For this end attention was paid to legal aspects of assuring fruit and vegetable quality in the European Union market. Results of commercial and health quality of fruit...

This scientific paper presents a consequent research of actual problems, trends and challenges in agricultural sector worldwide, in Europe and Latvia starting from global outlook and ending up with Latvian nationwide scale. The analysis of global and EU agricultural trends and problems has...

The aim of analysis was attempt assessment two groups farms with field crops depending on balance of emission warming gases from soil. First group contained farms with negative balance of emission warming gases from soil while second group of farms contained farms with positive balance of...

The importance of evaluating different impacts of the EU accession has not decreased in the last decade. Some of the problems, such as the problems of competitiveness and effectiveness of the agricultural sector, or the delay in transformation of the payment scheme are still unsolved. The...

The purpose of this paper is an attempt of showing the role of qualitative features of labour resources as a factor which diversifies the level of strawberry harvesting productivity. Such features as age and sex of pickers, total number of picking days, age of plantation and harvest date and...

Human capital is an important element in shaping the competitiveness of business firms. The purpose of this study is an attempt to present the scope of impact of the quality characteristics of human capital on the economic performance of farms. The analysis covered the age, sex and education of...