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Regional convergence of agriculture sustainability: the case of Poland

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  • Wioletta Wrzaszcz

    (Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, National Research Institute, Poland)

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Sustainable development of agriculture is now advisable direction, both by politicians and scientists. This support is evident in the development strategies and programmes, both on the national level as well as european. The need for assessment of agricultural sector (farms) is growing, in terms of actual changes in the context of the impact of agricultural production on natural environment. Although the need for sustainable agriculture development, the assessment methods of this phenomenon with wide implementation properties are not indicated in scientific literature. An important element of these evaluations is regional aspect, namely to identify whether the process of regional convergence or divergence appears in terms of farms’ environmental sustainability. The aim of the paper is to present the approach to farms’ environmental sustainability assessment and regional convergence in this scope on the basis of Polish Central Statistical Office data. The presented methodology may be useful in environmental sustainability evaluation of european regions. The presented results indicated a heterogeneous change in farm environmental sustainability, also at the regional level. Taking into consideration synthetic indicator of environmental sustainability, some symptoms of regress were observed, that took place in the central and eastern Poland – the area with relatively lower production potential of agriculture. Regional diversity in the field of environmental sustainability deepens for most considered its determinants, which confirms the divergence process.

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  • Wioletta Wrzaszcz, 2018. "Regional convergence of agriculture sustainability: the case of Poland," International Conference on Competitiveness of Agro-food and Environmental Economy Proceedings, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, vol. 7, pages 122-134.
    • Handle: RePEc:aes:icafee:v:7:y:2018:p:122-134
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