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Providing the population with safe and good quality food is one of the most important objectives of every country. The outbreak and spread of foodborne diseases is independent of a country’s location or development level, and may occur everywhere. As most children spend their days at educational institutions, we shall focus on their food safety. Not only for their present state of health, but also...
Ensuring high quality and safety of food has become one of the priorities of the Common Agricultural Policy pursued both at the level of the European Union and individual Member States, including Poland. Consequently, among the measures in the Rural Development Programme for 2007-2013 was Measure 133 ‘Information and promotion activities’ designed to make consumers aware of the specificity of high-quality...
The study was based on field research. The main goal of the work was to determine the level of consumer awareness of regional products and to examine the statistical relationship between the age and education level of respondents and their declaration of purchasing this type of product. Data collection was performed in Sudeten districts, because the described study was part of a research project concerning...
In the European Union, the proportion of people employed in agriculture is continuously decreasing. In Poland, nearly 15% of the actively employed population work in the sectors of agriculture, forestry and fishery, which is well above the European average of around 5%. This ratio is 5.1% in Hungary. Besides the decrease of the percentage of people employed in agriculture, a low proportion of young...
The aim of this study was to evaluate individual farms which predominantly dealt with crop production, but also kept sheep. Information about the farms’ cash flow was collected by way of direct interviews with the owners of the farms. The cash flow analysis revealed problems with liquidity. Therefore, it was necessary for some farms to have financial resources available for periods of negative financial...
The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the innovative behavior of enterprises located in rural areas of Lubelskie Voivodeship. The results presented and the analysis are based on the research project entitled “Intellectual Capital of Lublin Region 2010-2013.” It was conducted by the Statistical Office in Lublin at the request of the Marshal Office in Lubelskie Voivodeship under Priority VIII...
The paper aims to analyse the development of retail financial services in conditions of government intervention. It is argued that excessive state control of the market for retail financial services is needed in times of crisis and increased moral hazard occurrence but is not effective in the long term. Development could be achieved by expanding privatization in the banking sector and permitting the...
The aim of the article was the analysis and evaluation of selected global food promotion campaign funded by the European Union. The article contains analysis of the expenditure on individual campaigns, marketing tools used and the effectiveness of the executed information activities. The text also characterized the selected campaigns and its goals. The article examined the effectiveness of each campaign...
One of the most important tools for increasing business performance is to provide a proper level of financial resources, which is important for the continuity of all business establishments. Those factors that determine agricultural financing have specific characteristics. Due to the specifics of rural economies, agricultural enterprises have a low capacity for self-financing, thus they need significant...
The food sector is constantly reformulating, adjusting to technological changes, consumer needs, trends and habits. In recent years the local food system approach applied in rural development has gained much popularity.Consuming locally produced food is not only a matter of health care or fashion, but also environmental protection, sustainable rural development or identification with tradition and...
The research presented a financial approach to an issue of estimation of efficiency of the Polish foreign direct investments abroad (FDIA) as an instrument of value creation for investors. Besides the volume and distribution of Polish FDIA according to economic activity and geographical zone were analyzed. The volume of Polish FDIA outward position constantly grew due to an increase of equity capital,...
The study examines the recent changes in per capita consumption of apples and exotic fruits focusing on the competition between the two fruit categories. In particular, the per capita consumption of apples declined from about 21 kg in 2004 to about 15 kg in 2012, while the consumption of exotic fruit increased from about 9 kg to kg in 2005 to 12.5 kg in 2012. The examination stresses the inadequacy...
The aim of this paper is to conduct an analysis of R&D investments and their impact on a biotechnology firm’s value. The sample consists of the top 52 R&D investors from the European biotechnology sector. The data were obtained from “EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard”. The multiple linear regression was applied to find the answer to the research question. The main findings of the...
The main aim of this study is to summarize the steps of operation of an automatic milking system. The milking system is used in a fresh milk producing farm: the Józsefmajor Experimental and Demonstration Farm of the Szent István University of Gödöllő. The use of automatic milking robot system is unique in Hungary and also in Europe. The installation of the milking robot changed the steps of the formerly...
Tracking and analysing economic and social changes in the agricultural sector is vital for decision makers, sectoral parties, professional and advocacy organisations and research institutions. Collected statistical data serve as a basis for domestic decision making and provide the foundation of strategy formulation in rural development, agro-environmental protection and sustainable agriculture. In...
Contemporarily, agriculture is facing many challenges connected with growing food demand and scarcity of natural resources. In meeting these challenges innovation has become of crucial importance. The paper aims at providing an insight on the topic of the needs and possibilities of open innovation and its significance for the transition towards sustainable and more productive agriculture of EU. We...
The aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting the development of production of pulses to be used as commodities or feeds on farms in Wielskopolska. The survey was conducted on 184 farms in 2012, where farmers were interviewed with a questionnaire. There was a minimal share of pulses in the crop structure on the farms under study. Low cost-effectiveness of production and yield instability...
The main aim of this paper is to overview the trends in assistance to agriculture both in developed and developing countries and to compare them with trends in food products trade to verify the hypothesis assuming that although the level of price distorting assistance to agriculture in high-income countries in last three decades has been decreasing, agricultural markets in these economies are not...
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