Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...

Presentation Overview: Convey key OECD findings about agriculture in Brazil and China; Identify the key results of policy reform; Present implications for the future.

We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 years, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using an improved nonparametric Malmquist index. Our TFP estimates show a remarkable recovery in the performance of...

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...

This paper addresses the question of distribution of support from the EU budget and the national budget to agricultural holders in Mazovia region in comparison with Poland as a whole. In the first main section, the characteristics of the agricultural sector in the region, using main sectoral...

The paper deals with the future of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. The New Financial Perspective (2007-2013) is being discussed. The paper is supplemented by analysis of the impact of the 2003 reform on the most important markets. Final part of the paper deals with a presentation of...

The region of Podkarpacie in comparison to other regions of Poland is characterised by high differentiation of natural, socio-economic, infrastructural, ecologic and historical factors. Rural areas dominate in the spatial structure of the region and are inhabited by around 60% of the inhabitants...

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...

Two assumptions were used in the research: 1). despite similar conditions the agriculture is more developed in the regions of Germany (Mecklenburg – West Pomerania, Schleswig – Holstein) than in the northern voivodeships of Poland (Zachodniopomorskie and Pomorskie voivodeship); 2)....