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The aim of the work is to present of the main theoretical aspects of rural household adaptation to the transformed economic system in Poland in the light of needs for multifunctional development of rural areas, mainly in the regions of former state farms domination. The concept of multifunctional development and theories of rural households are discussed. The author presents the socio-economic and...
In the paper, the authors have presented the results of the survey conducted on the households of the Lublin province. The number of the households that have been investigated, totals 624. On the basis of the data that was obtained, it could conclude that the rural areas in Poland have considerable potential for growth. The sense of rootedness, which is the point of departure of the local development,...
Willingness to pay for the removal of the billboards standing free along the roads has been investigated by using the contingent valuation method. The results of a very limited investigation carried out among the travellers on a thirty kilometre long stretch of the E77 road between Grójec and Janki near Warsaw indicate a rather significant social sensitivity to this sort of pollution of the landscape...
Basically, women’s empowerment is the process (and its outcomes) in which women – individually and collectively- become active, knowledgeable and goal-oriented actors who take and/ or support initiatives to overcoming gender inequalities. Hence, women’s empowerment refers to a strategy to achieve gender equality as well as to the inherent capacity building processes. Institutional capacity aimed at...
In this paper, the authors assess conditions for developing non-agricultural economic activity in rural areas with a dispersed agriculture. The research was conducted in the Podkarpacki region, and is based on opinions expressed by farmer - entrepreneurs as well as other rural entrepreneurs.
The key role of non-agricultural economic activity in the transformation process as well as in giving up monofunctionality of Polish villages gave rise to the necessity to precisely analyse its character and to define its types. The presented analysis of non-agricultural economic activity was based on interviews with local authorities and on primary data for 1996-2003, gathered from registers of economic...
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