Strategies for the agri-food sector and rural areas – dilemmas of development
Creators: name: Wigier, Marek (Ed.)
name: Kowalski, Andrzej (Ed.)
name: Wigier, Marek (Ed.)
name: Kowalski, Andrzej (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: agricultural land use
subject: agricultural production
subject: agricultural sector
subject: agriculture
subject: agri-food products
subject: agri-food sector
subject: Baltic States
subject: Bosnia and Herzegovina
subject: Bulgaria
subject: CAP
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Czech Republic
subject: dairy farms
subject: development
subject: employment
subject: farming policy
subject: farms
subject: food supply chains
subject: green direct payments
subject: growth
subject: Hungary
subject: income
subject: investment supports
subject: large farms
subject: organic farmers
subject: Poland
subject: Romania
subject: rural areas
subject: rural development
subject: rural growth
subject: rural policy
subject: rural society
subject: Serbia
subject: Slovakia
subject: social cohesion
subject: sugar industry
subject: technical infrastructure
subject: territorial cohesion
subject: Ukraine
subject: wine industry

description: This monograph was prepared under the Multi-Annual Programme 2015-2019 “The Polish and the EU agricultures 2020+. Challenges, chances, threats, proposals”. The publication is a collection of selected papers delivered at the international conference entitled “Strategies for agri-food sector and rural areas 􀯅 dilemmas for development” organized by the National Research Institute on 19-21 June 2017 in Stary Liche􀄔 in Poland. The published materials refer directly to the current and future strategic objectives and principles of agricultural policy for the agri-food sector and rural areas, address the issues of equilibrium between agriculture, forestry and land use, as well as productivity and production efficiency and tensions between sectoral and territorial action and cohesion policy. Chapters: Backcasting as an approach to creating long-term development strategies for the agri-food sector. Strategic dilemmas of the rural and farming policy in Poland. Social cohesion, changes in rural society and the stability of the agricultural sector in the Czech Republic. Assessment of territorial cohesion in terms of technical infrastructure of rural areas in comparison with cities. Economic importance of the Common Agricultural Policy in terms of agricultural production in Hungary and its implications after 2020. Investment supports to the Czech farms and their expected future under the CAP 2020+. Implementation of “blue ocean” strategy in Poland and Ukraine agricultural sectors: current status, opportunities and growth prospects. Potential of landscape features for implementation of green direct payments in Czech farmed landscape. Development of rural areas based on rational agricultural land use: a case study of Ukraine. Models and development directions of food supply chains. Sustainability performance indicators in dairy farms of Baltic States. Strategic aspects of the development of the sugar industry in Poland. The possibility to reach meat self-sufficiency in Romania in the long term. Wine industry as a source of rural growth and development. Why large farms dominate and rural areas struggle in Slovakia? The role of agriculture for income and employment in the Bulgarian rural areas. Product restructuring of Bulgarian agriculture – dilemmas and strategic directions. The role of a brand in recognition of agri-food products from Serbia. Small scale organic farmers – source of growth in the Bosnia and Herzegovina agri-food sector.