160th Seminar, December 1-2, 2016, Warsaw, Poland

The creation of non-farm jobs in rural areas is one of the key challenges of rural development policy of Poland. Socio-economic processes in the Polish rural areas result [...]

In recent years, we experienced a growing interest in the evaluation of EU co-funded programmes. The paper is a first attempt to analyse the impacts of such support on th [...]

The majority of studies on rural migration in the EU have tended to focus rather on the scale and implications of exodus from rural societies than on rural areas as recei [...]

This paper uses farm-level data from Ireland to explore the impact of agricultural policies on the farm operators’ off-farm labour allocation decisions. The hypothesis th [...]

The European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (COMAGRI) has recently drafted an own-initiative report “How Can the CAP Improve Job Creation [...]

This study is concerned with assessing the contribution of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to non-farm employment in the UK, through its direct and indirect e [...]

Health and safety have long been recognised officially as issues in EU agricultural occupation, but pose specific problems of definition, measurement and policy action. A [...]

The question of farm size has long been a concern in the agricultural economics literature. The observation of a long-lasting persistence of so-called small farms drew th [...]