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This work is a direct continuation of a previous work by the authors that dealt with construction of new coeffi cients of concentration by using Minkowski’s metric ρp(1 ≤ p ≤ ∞). The following work gives examples of applications of those metrics in agriculture, forestry, fi shing and hunting sectors. It also studies the pattern of changes of concentration of added value created in those sectors by...
In Poland, as early as in the pre-accession period to the European Union, the activities aiming at the creation of conditions for implementation of the principles of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which assumed supporting of agricultural production with direct payments and match-funding, had already been undertaken. In order to realize that task, the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of...
The publication addresses the issue and the mechanism of remuneration of the labour factor in agriculture. An analytical approach with empirical examples was used, the reasoning is carried out in the microeconomic convention. Basing on analytical formulas the relationships between (a) proportion of food in consumer’s expenditure, (b) supply and demand for factors of production and the prices thereof,...
The aim of the paper is an assessment of changes in production factors productivity in commercial farms in 2012 in comparison to 2004. An analysis concerns the fl exibility of relations among production factors like: arable lands areas in hectares, human labor input in man-hours, total cost in Polish zloty in 2004 and 2012 and the effects resulted from using above mentioned factors expressed in production...
Smallholder farmers in the region of Sub-Saharan Africa have begun to participate in global supply chains through applying contract farming (CF). The main aims of this paper are: to present a typology of CF and to describe the contract farming in Sub-Saharan African countries. This article has synthesised the fi ndings from contract farming agreements in Sub-Saharan African countries to form a conceptual...
The paper reviews the concept of sustainable development, indicating its various dimensions. Natural environment in developed countries became almost entirely anthropogenic. Under such conditions, the way of using natural resources has to change as well. It is forced by the new needs and priorities described above, i.e. a demand for an assurance concerning renewability of natural resources as well...
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