The work presents results of a study conducted in 2009 and involving farmers who owned farms of up to 10 hectare located in 2 communes (gminas). The first commune is typically rural (in the Lubelskie Voivodeship) and the other is a multi-function commune. The farmers interviewed in both gminas,...

For the countries of the Central Europe, the regional policy measures which concentrate on the maintenance of the small and medium sized producer’s units and are trying to find solutions to the worsening negative circumstances for the family farms (in the EU-12, 68.5% of farms are regarded as...

Some conditions for changes in an enterprises in the knowledge-based economy were presented. A huge difference between the IUS 2011 indicator in the Polish and the EU-27 economies was shown. The author also underlined the role of human capital as the stimulating factor of changes. The special...

After the accession of Poland to the European Union farmers have to fulfil high food quality requirements. In accordance with the requirement 172/2002 of the European Commission, they should keep documentation regarding their part in the product’s flow in the food chain. This paper focuses...

The article presents basic assumptions of implementation of the Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) and compares them to the practice in a farm involved in breeding pigs. An analysis of farm, on the basis of requirements of the Good Agricultural Practice contained in the Code of GAP, presents the...

The aim of this research was a presentation of the financial liquidity in the sector of agricultural farms in Poland and a comparison to these in the European Union. Data from the FADN database was mainly used. It enabled an analysis of the problem by country in the European Union in years...

In 1830 farmers constituted the majority of the Greek population. Part of these was small landowners or small livestock farmers, while the largest part of them was landless. The large farms were few. In the 1920s the entrance of 1.5 million refugees from Asia Minor and the departure of 600...

The article presents the idea and and the profile of agricultural productive cooperatives with regard to the object of their activity, their numbers and their spatial distribution in Poland. The article mentions also the organizational models of cooperativism in some EU countries and shows the...

A new form of rural tourism, i.e. agriecotourism, and determinants of its development were presented. This kind of touristic services in rural areas includes organizing a stay for holiday-makers in agritourism farms. However, it differs from the typical agritourism because the host farmers...

With the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Union has established a legal framework for the protection of all aquatic ecological systems, including groundwater. This directive may have advantages for the water regime in ecologically sensitive areas but may also bring some economic...