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Based on farm panel data we empirically investigate the determinants of Polish farm households’ flexibility from 1994 to 2001. We focus on scale flexibility (adjustment in production volume) and scope flexibility (adjustment in product mix). The findings of our fixed-effects regression provide evidence that smaller farms are more flexible, both with regard to scale and scope of production. Farms with...
The paper aims at identifying the arguments used by the French government, trade unions and agricultural policy experts in the ongoing debate on the future of the direct payment system in the EU. The trend towards further decoupling of direct payments seems inevitable and generally beneficial, but France remains rather reluctant. It emphasizes the problems of land abandoning in certain regions and...
After Poland’s accession to the EU, it turned out that the threats are smaller than forecasted and our food producers efficiently use the opportunities resulting from the opening of a large and wealthy European food market. Polish food economy is well-prepared to operate within the Common European Market. Mutual full opening of markets was not a hindrance to the development of the Polish food economy;...
The main objective of the paper was to attempt an analysis of links between institutions and individual agricultural holdings. Based on theoretical considerations and nation-wide questionnaire surveys, an aggregated index of the institutionalisation level of an agricultural holding was developed. It allowed for the delimitation of farms against the intensity and structure of links between agricultural...
The article analyses the changes in the sector of farms operated by legal persons between 1990 and 1996, i.e. in a period that marked the most fundamental systemic changes. The adoption and implementation of the idea of accelerating the transformation of ownership relationships in agriculture, aimed at reducing public as well as collective private ownership and instead extending and enhancing private...
Constitutive feature of organic farming is to carry out sustainable agricultural activity in accordance with the requirements of the soil, plants and animals. The systematic increase in the potential of the organic farms in Poland should be considered as positive and desired direction of agriculture development, due to the numerous environmental, economic and social benefits, as well as compliance...
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