Ensuring high quality and food safety has become one of the priorities of the Common Agricultural Policy both at the European Union and individual countries within it, including Poland. Therefore, in the Rural Development Programme for 2007–2013 has been proposed in Measure 132 to a special...

The paper attempts to contribute to the discussion of the agricultural support distribution in the framework of Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. Author used European Commission statistics of direct payments to explore the distribution patterns across farm holdings in EU Member...

This paper presents the possibility of changes in the Common Agricultural Policy after 2013. Attention was drawn to the European Commission's proposals which result from discussions with representatives of various disciplines and backgrounds as well as the results of studies of other...

The main objective of the study was to evaluate the potential of investment attractiveness of rural areas in Poland. An attempt was made at setting up a hierarchy and grouping of municipalities and regions in Poland in terms of a synthetic index of attractiveness for investors. In addition, an...

The article deals with a spatial analysis of the general condition of Polish agriculture and the level of farmers’ activity in obtaining subsidies from the EU funds. The results have been presented in the form of an average standardized value while the difference between them has been...

The aim of the research was to determine the scope and the level of financial support from the EU funds to the orchard farms in the Lubelszczyzna region before and after Polish accession to the European Union. 65 orchard farmers in the Lubelskie province were interviewed by using standard...

Farm incomes in Poland have increased since the Polish integration with the European Union. The average monthly available income per household was in 2008 lower than income only of the self-employed entrepreneurs. A significant impact on this situation have the agricultural direct payments which...

The paper presents changes in the structure of population's economic activity following a division into urban and rural population. The period of investigation covers years 1993-2009. The research deals with synthetic measures of the intensity of structure transformation as well as with average...

The aim of the paper was an attempt to show the essential terms of measurement of intellectual capital in agricultural farms. The meaning of this capital as a unique resource of enterprises, which distinguishes the enterprise from the others in a competitive market is discussed. Possible...

The purpose of research was to analyze ecological development in EU countries during 2000-2012. Six primary variables have been applied, namely: the share of forest area in total land area, emissions of sulphur oxides (SOx) in agriculture, emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) in agriculture,...