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The article presents the diversity in the socio-economic development of rural and urban areas in the River Drwęca Basin conditioned by the demography, history and geography of the region. The time span in question is from 1995 to 2007. In order to delimit the demographic changes the Perkal method was used, while the complex assessment of diversity in economic development was based on Hellwig's synthetic indicator called 'taxonomic method of diversity'. Regional diversity is visible in the following three areas: economic (increased spread of the entrepreneurship index), social (increased diversity in unemployment rate), spatial (in the income of boroughs and in the expenses per head) as well as in agriculture (due to diverse natural conditions and low level of both social and technical infrastructure). The paper also shows the new directions and chances for further development.
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The article describes changes in the direction of production in economically small (2-16 ESU) individual farms. The analysis was based on data of Polish FADN from selected group of farms conducting accounting for agriculture in 2005-2007. The studies have shown that in this period, the proportion of surveyed farms directed for mixed production was around 50%, and for plant and animal production – was approximately 25%. The share of farms with mixed production was gradually decreasing, and the two subsequent – increasing (with a predominance of farms oriented for crop production). Also estimated that over 90% of households cultivated cereals, and about 70% – breeding of dairy cows, but the number of both groups was gradually decreasing.
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The current stage of socio-economic transformation of the Polish village is deepening existing spatial differentiation despite the fact that regional policy has the instruments to counteract this process. In other words, the existing instruments are not neutralising the tendency to increasing differentiation. On the other hand, one very important factor which may help to overcome this overall trend is the model of local governance, its continuity, the ability of local communities to organise themselves into various institutions which can act as partners for local self-governments (by verbalising their various group interests).
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This study presents development possibilities of villages located in the boroughs, which have more than 50% legal protected area of the whole area, because of it's great natural amenities. Agricultural production is main form of economic activities on this areas. This work presents possibilities of implementation of agri-enviromental programs and afforestation programs concerned low quality lands in farms situated on researching area. The paper considers also different forms of off-farm activities taking up by villages inhabitants especially tourism and agrotourism which are possible to keep according to environmental protection law.
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The article presents evaluation of agri-tourist activities in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship the analyses were performed at the turn of 2014 and 2015 and they cover the yeras 2010-2015, including comparative data from 1998-2007.The results of investigations show that in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship there are many areas of natural value with tourist objects which are worth interest and attention of visitors. However, in terms of the number of agri-tourist farms the province is only on the 13th position in Poland and 10th position in terms of the number of tourists who use accommodation, altogether. Due to the agricultural potential of the province it is predisposed to development of agricultural activities. At the same time, these natural values can be used by smaller farms to make additional profits by accommodating tourists. The majority of agri-tourist farms in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship can be found in the following districts: tucholski (85), świecki (44), brodnicki (33), bydgoski (29) and żniński (27).
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Over the centuries, folk culture in Poland has undergone many changes due to natural civilization processes – from the culture catering for basic needs of rural society, to commercial culture catering mainly for tourists’ needs. The cultural products created on the basis of its resources, being more or less authentic, begin to determine the attractiveness of many regions in Poland. The article attempts to establish the potential and development possibilities of cultural tourism in rural areas of Poland, considering the regional differences. Furthermore, the author is reviewing terms connected with the use of folk culture resources, and she also draws attention to process of creating cultural products and its influence on the folk culture commercialization.
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One of the elements of effectively implementing environmental policies in rural areas in Poland is the smooth functioning of public administrative bodies. Within the administrative system, what is most important here are paying agencies, which are based on national and European-Union standards, and support the development of organic farming and environmental education. The scope of the activities of these agencies largely contributes to the growth of environmental awareness in Poland’s rural areas.
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Changes in procreation behaviours observable both in urban and rural areas since the early 1990s may result in the diminishing difference between these areas in terms of the intensity of fertility rate and the pattern of fertility. The aim of the article is to describe the changes that took place in 1990-2009 and to determine their direction and intensity. Additionally, the author of the article tries to identify these regions of Poland where the process of changes was the fastest and the occurring changes were similar.
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The process of diversification of income sources of the rural population is currently one of the main factors determining the pace and direction of the restructuring of rural areas in Poland. The aim of this paper is to provide an answer to the question how - in terms of remuneration, the strategy of diversification of income sources pursued by farmers looks like against the background of strategies of earning money exclusively outside agriculture and against the background of a strategy basing wholly on agricultural sources of income. For the purpose of the presented analysis the authors used a methodology based on matching techniques and data collected during a series of surveys called 'Social Diagnosis' carried out in 2000, 2003 and 2005. The results of these surveys indicate that in the 2003-2005 period the strategy of diversification of activities failed to produce sufficient impulses encouraging farmers to reduce their involvement in agriculture. More attractive - in terms of income, was the strategy of earning money exclusively outside agriculture. However, due to various reasons it did not help ease the problem of agrarian overpopulation to any significant extent.
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The analysis of the results of externally evaluated school tests in Poland leads to rather surprising conclusions. The educational gap between urban and rural areas is smaller than expected. In turn, one can observe significant differences in educational quality among the historically defined districts of Poland. Those differences tend to be stronger within rural areas than between cities. In general the average test scores achieved in Western and Northern Poland are lower than those of students in former Galicia and Kongresówka. The model presented in this article shows that family education is the major determinant of local educational quality. The importance of this factor is higher in urban environment than in rural areas, where school achievements are also influenced by the accessibility of school resources. The regional differentiation of educational quality may be in part explained by high unemployment and social pathologies in the areas that suffered from the collapse of large state owned farms in early 90's. However, even with corresponding variables included in the model, most of the interregional gap in school achievements remains unexplained, leaving open field for further research.
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The article is an attempt to assess a dependence between living conditions and socio-cultural and economic activity of the rural population in Opole Voivodship (Region) on the level of rural local administrative units. One may suppose that rural areas with high economic, social and cultural activity of population are likewise characterised by higher quality of life. An assumption that rural areas with a high activity level are represented by active local governments in even European as well as regional and local development initiatives was verified. The Regional Government of Opole Voivodship is implementing many initiatives aimed at social and entrepreneurship activation in rural areas (i.e. Villager Regeneration [Odnowa Wsi], Opole Region Rarities [Opolskie Specjały], LEADER Program, Opole Region Renewable Energy [Energia Odnawialna Opolszczyzny]) leading to significant improvement of quality of life for the rural population. Such actions at least partly may simplify the basis of the economic differentiation of the local social function and serve to strengthen regional and local bonds and identity.
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In recent years, extreme hydrological phenomena have been observed increasingly frequently in many European countries, including Poland. Efficient protection measures to reduce the occurrence of floods and their tragic consequences have been sought for years. One such solution is the efficient water policy pursued by the European Union, made up of a series of legal acts related to flood risks. The aim of the study is to present an overview of selected EU and national legal instruments concerning flood control in rural areas which are currently applied in Poland. The implementation of EU regulations makes it necessary for the member-states to amend many of the currently binding regulations relating to flood control, but also to adopt a number of new legal rules facilitating flood risk management.
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The European Union, which had been gradually becoming less agriculture-oriented, it also became troublingly more rural. In this new, more rural Europe, the population living in rural areas is now the majority (over 57 % in the EU-27). The development of the new Europe’s countryside has become a political objective aimed at achieving economic, social and territorial cohesion. However, the current EU rural policy 2007-2013 is inappropriate and insufficient, and should have been included in the new Cohesion Policy, which is multi-sectoral and territorial, and not in a basically sectoral agricultural policy like the CAP. In this context, the new proposal for rural development policies, presented by the European Commission in 2011, seems to have many wake points. In fact, “promoting social inclusion, poverty reduction and economic development in rural areas” are the sixth priority for the future European rural policy. Consequently, if the European policies have not made sufficient headway in the required direction, supplementary national and regional policies will have to be established.
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The analysis of studies presented in the paper allows to conclude that rural areas of Wielkopolskie voivodship are considerably differentiated as far as the distribution of economic infrastructure is concerned. Very high and high levels of infrastructure can be found in the counties in the central part of the voivodship around Poznań, its capital and two counties in the northern part of the voivodship. These counties have attained higher level of individually studied elements of infrastructure, as compared with the values calculated for rural areas in Poland in general. Counties of low and very low level of infrastructure occupy south-eastern part of the voivodship and vast areas located in its north-western part. In these areas not all inhabitants have access to gas-line system, sewage network and sewage treatment plants.
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This article attempts to present and classify rural peripheral areas in Poland on the basis of their socio-economic structure. It identifies several characteristic features of the peripheral regions' development and demonstrates their importance for the formulation of local development strategies essentially based on internal factors (in accordance with the concept of endogenous development).
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(Title in Polish - 'Zróznicowanie pozarolniczej dzialalnosci gospodarczej i infrastruktury technicznej na obszarach wiejskich województwa malopolskiego'). The purpose of this paper is to estimate the diversity of non-agricultural economic activity and technical infrastructure in the Malopolska province communes. The diversity of non-agricultural activity and technical infrastructure was determined with the help of a synthetic indicator built of partial measures established by an additive aggregation function.
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The inhabitants of rural areas account for nearly 39% of the population of Poland. Because of the age structure and favourable reproduction factors, the demographic resources of villages form an important part of the total human capital of Poland. Every possible effort should be launched to make the most profitable use of these resources. The main form of the process of activation should be the multifunctional development of rural areas.
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Due to the specific problems of rural areas, the policy of stimulating entrepreneurship located in the countryside is becoming ever more important. The shaping of entrepreneurial attitudes and the introduction of assistance programmes for the already existing enterprises constitute the main factors of the development of entrepreneurship. Its understanding should not be confined to non-agricultural activities alone for it encompasses the modernisation of farms and the adoption by farmers of behaviour patterns which are typical for business activity. The system of incentives created by the pre-accession programme of assistance to agriculture and rural areas SAPARD fits this conceptual framework. An independent empirical research study was carried out to investigate the impact of this programme on the development of rural entrepreneurship. The last part of the paper deals with quantitative and qualitative changes in respect of stimulation of the development of rural entrepreneurship that have taken place in Poland after its accession to the European Union.
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The 'LEADER' programme evokes mixed reactions in Poland. Apart from enthusiastic opinions voices can be heard that the programme is too difficult and its implementation ought to be postponed. For some it means an occasion to acquire more funds from the European Union, whereas for others it means a chance for the emergence of a new grass-roots social movement that would complement in an essential way the activities of local governments. The real meaning of the programme for the Polish rural community will become known only in the coming years but the first twelve months of its formal implementation have yielded many suggestions and make it possible to draw some conclusions. The text describes the current and predicted position of the 'LEADER' programme in Europe and contains conclusions and recommendations concerning its implementation in Poland.
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Manufacturers and producers of regional products have very high capacity to take advantage of the existing market niche as far as the growing interest in food quality is concerned. It is a global trend and Polish producers have a huge opportunity here. The only need is to have a good promotion policy, and the consent and agreement among the producers and manufacturers of regional products. On the one hand, regional products can be a major tourist attraction and also a great way to promote rural development. On the other hand, thanks to the growth of tourism, it is possible to preserve traditional production methods even though they may not be very profitable. Tourists eagerly buy these products and treat it as a kind of proof of a visit in a particular place or country. Moreover, they evoke holiday memories, emotions, and the flavors of the countryside. Rural areas of Pomerania, which are culturally diversified with a rich tradition in history, are a great treasury of cultural resources. The aim of the presented study is to verify the hypothesis that regional product is a tool to promote tourism in rural areas of the voivodship.
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