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Instytut Ekonomiki Rolnictwa i Gospodarki Żywnościowej - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy eBooks, 2015
Introduction……………………………………………………………… 1. Models of agriculture-industrial and sustainable……………………… 2. Premises of sustainable agriculture……………………………………… 3. Conditions………………………………………………………………. 4. Rural areas……………………………………………………………….. Conclusions……………………………………………………………… II. PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE………………………………………... Introduction……………………………………………………………… 1. Productivity in agriculture………………………………………………. 2. Profitability in agriculture……………………………………………….. 3. Productivity study of selected sustainable forms of agricultural holdings in 2012…………………………………………………………. 3.1. Test method…………………………………………………………. 3.2. Study results………………………………………………………… Conclusions……………………………………………………………… III. ECONOMIC FOOD AVAILABILITY AS ONE OF THE DIMENSIONS OF FOOD SECURITY IN POLAND…………………………………………. Introduction……………………………………………………………… 1. Food security-the theoretical aspect……………………………………. 2. Economic food availability………………………………………………. 3. Income of households……………………………………………………. 4. Consumer expenditures of households…………………………………... 5. Food consumption in households………………………………………… 6. Relationship between income and food consumption…………………… 7. Income elasticity of demand for food……………………………………. 8. Forecast of changes in demand for food…………………………………. 9. Prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages……………………………... 10. Economic poverty in Poland…………………………………………….. Conclusions……………………………………………………………… References……………………………………………………………………... 8 The third chapter presents the problem of food security, which occupies more and more space in the debate on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy after 2013. European Parliament resolution of 18 January 2011 on recognition of agriculture as a strategic sector in the context of food security evidence of this. One of the dimension of food security is the economic food availability. Economic availability of food at the household level is measured by many indicators. The indicators used by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations are: the level of income, Gini coefficient, the total expenditure, expenditure on food, the share of food expenditure in the total expenditure, food prices. These indicators are the basis of research to identify problems in the area of economic availability of food, which include: the national food consumption analysis, research on expenditure on food, assessment of the level of poverty and living standard of population. In Poland, incomes and prices are the most important factors influencing food consumption. Both of these factors determine economic availability of food. Empirical research showed that the economic availability of food in Poland is stable. However, in households 20% of the poorest people degree of satisfaction of food needs was unsatisfactory. Dr hab. Mariola Kwasek is the author of the third chapter.
Sustainable agriculture - selected papers
2007
The concept of research on socially sustainable agriculture. Features of sustainable agriculture. Sustainability of private farms in the light of selected criteria. Subsistence agricultural holdings and the sustainable development of agriculture. Sustainable farms in the light of the FADN data. Description of organic holdings in Poland.
Development of Agriculture Through Sustainable Production and Consumption
2021
The study includes some theoretical insights about the sustainability of agriculture, respectively a sustainable and responsible production and consumption. Through the choices they decide to make, both the producer who chooses to produce a sustainable product and the consumer because he buys and consumes products certified according to sustainability standards, a market is created based on a common effort to contribute to the sustainable development of agriculture. The harmonious development of the agricultural sector has two key actors, the final consumer of which through daily choices of sustainable products will increase the demand for these products, and producers will move to sustainable agricultural practices to meet demand, the ultimate goal being creating a sustainable agrifood market that provides products corresponding to the requirements of the sustainability, in this case also taking care of the future of generations. This paper presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis about sustainable agriculture, responsible production and responsible consumption of agri-food products that aims to highlight the importance of the analyzed topic. At the same time, the paper presents the analysis of some indicators to reflect the current situation of Romania regarding the level of achievement the sustainable development objectives, to highlight the path taken and to determine development opportunities at an accelerated pace of fulfilment a sustainable agriculture. The main results regarding the development of agriculture aim at the sustainable demand which is represented by the increase of the population's awareness regarding especially the social aspects and those that imply the protection of the environment, which determines the choice of sustainable products and sustainable production is represented by the increase in the number of agricultural producers who obtain voluntary sustainability standards. Current trends tend towards resilience given social inequity and environmental awareness.
Roczniki Naukowe Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Rolnictwa i Agrobiznesu
The aim of the paper was to identify different levels of social sustainability in farms of various production types (8 types) in EU countries. The study is based on the Sustainable Value (SV) method, which is value-oriented, measured as the sustainability of agriculture at the microeconomic level (e.g. agricultural farm). To be able to compare farms among themselves, an RTC was calculated. The FADN database for the years 2004-2015 was used in the article, analyzing four types of farms (field-crop, horticulture, milk and granivores). It was indicated that what was most important for social sustainability was the relation between the employed labour input, especially own, family labour input, and the achieved effects in the form of total output value, but first of all, income from the family farm (farm net income).
The social pillar of sustainability: a quantitative approach at the farm level
Agricultural and Food Economics, 2016
The present research proposes a model for the assessment of the social pillar of sustainability at the farm scale. Contrary to what is available for the environmental and economic pillars, there is a considerable lack of exhaustive approaches able to evaluate the social dimension of sustainability in rural areas. Thus, the idea was to create a mean by which a quantitative evaluation of the social characteristics of farms could be made. The study involved farms of the South Milan Agricultural Park, located in northern Italy. Thirty sampled farms were selected in order to represent the different livestock systems, land areas, economic dimensions and levels of multifunctionality of the area. The framework is based on a set of 15 indicators able to evaluate five main social "components": (i) quality of the products and the region, (ii) short supply chain and related activities, (iii) work, (iv) ethical and human development and (v) society, culture and ecology. The work was structured using the following steps: identification of the relevant variables for the social sustainability of farms, determination of the framework of indicators, assignment of their range scores, data collection, calculation of the score for each farm, data analysis and visualization. The method allows different types of analysis in relation to the objective of the research. Three main approaches were individuated: (1) the comparison among farms is the "farms' ranking" and the "aggregate ranking"; (2) the evaluation of single themes of sustainability is the "single indicator evaluation" approach and (3) the temporal comparison of the farm's result is the "score evolution" approach. The method showed a high sensitivity to the multifunctionality and the type of farm production, especially organic vs conventional, while other characteristics, such as the type of livestock and the land area, seem to differentiate the sample less or to characterize it in only a few social components. The work has underlined the importance and the advancement in the study of the social dimension that, however, needs further in-depth analysis through comparison with the other two pillars and among various social states in different rural areas.
Sustainable Agriculture: Unifying Concepts
Ciencia e investigación agraria, 2009
This work is the product of a long process that tried to approximate the principia involved in sustainable agriculture in an attempt to analyze it. We believe that these principia are crucial for the systematic, rigorous, and consistent development of sustainable agriculture. The unifying concepts of agriculture sustainability are classifi ed into seven fundamental principles: (i) there is a hierarchy in decision-making with respect to human actions on the landscape and environment; (ii) human impact on the land should be analyzed from different perspectives (local, global, anthropocentric, and ecocentric); (iii) the carrying capacity in an agrarian context is crucial to ecosystem management and design; (iv) humans arrange nature with little consideration of its own natural organization; (v) land-use planning and design are subordinate to the order determinants that occur in a particular situation; (vi) cultural landscape is a result of humans' actions on the land; and, (vii) the concepts of agriculture and rurality lack a territorial connotation, unlike farm and comarca (a region connected through a common local market). Finally, agriculture sustainability should be addressed from various focal points, with a focus on nature and culture as its main determinants.
Environmental Aspects of Sustainable Agriculture
Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports
Agricultural policy in the European Union at Community level, as well as in the member states, increasingly emphasises the issue of sustainable agriculture. The pursuit of climate neutrality requires a reduction in emissions from agricultural sources. Above all, it is necessary to fully exploit the potential of agricultural and forestry areas to increase carbon sequestration in biomass and soil, optimise systems for the storage, transport and use of livestock manure, and significantly improve energy efficiency and increase the share of renewable energy in plant and livestock production. Rural areas, and in particular agriculture, are also seen as one of the main and important sources of pollution and eutrophication of water. Determining the correct way to assess the degree of sustainability of farms requires objective and feasible to determine measures and indicators of socioeconomic-environmental sustainability and a lot of analysis, methodological and practical research. To date, ...
New approaches to sustainable rural development: Social farming as an opportunity in Europe?
HUMAN GEOGRAPHIES – Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography
The so-called "Green Revolution" has marginalized and depopulated many rural areas, but economic diversication has emerged since the 1980s. Consumer appreciation for organic farming and proximity sourcing has increased, and farmers have responded to this market. Since 2008 the economic crisis has led to importation of low-quality food products at an unsustainable level of energy costs, and the lack of employment opportunity has led people to seek economic opportunities in the countryside, producing foods with ecological criteria for short food supply chains. Within this scenario, Social Farming (SF) has appeared as a multifunctional innovative strategy. It gives a return to society through the production and processing of agricultural products by incorporating direct social benets in employment, training, and therapy or rehabilitation of groups at risk of social exclusion. SF offers social cohesion, empowerment of vulnerable groups, local development in rural and peri-urban settings, and an equitable balance between revenues and costs to society.
The Concept of Sustainable Agriculture: Challenges and Prospects
Agriculture has changed dramatically, especially since the end of World War II. Food and fibre productivity raised due to new technologies, mechanization, increased chemical use, specialization and government policies that favoured maximizing production. Sustainable agriculture is a subject of great interest and lively debate in many parts of the world. Most agriculturalists agree that the concept of sustainable agriculture is of paramount importance to the sustainability of our biosphere and its ever increasing human population. This paper is an effort to identify the ideas, practices and policies that constitute concept of sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable rural development: What is the role of the agri-food sector?
2007
This volume of proceedings, available both as hard copy and pdf, is an edited compilation of selected contributions to the IAMO Forum 2007, which will be held in Halle (Saale), Germany, at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe from 27 to 29 June 2007. We would like to thank all those persons and organisations who contributed to the realisation of the IAMO Forum 2007 and the volume in hand. First of all, we thank all lecturers, whose commitment and papers made both the conference and the publication possible. Furthermore, we appreciate the financial support provided by the Federal Ministry of, Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection and the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt. The conference would not be successful without the active engagement of such a large number of colleagues from IAMO, that we cannot mention them here. We wish to express our deepest gratitude to all of them. For improving the book languagewise and supporting us in its tec...