At the begining of January Professor Masahiko Gemma from Waseda University was in Institute of Agricultural and Food Economy - NRI. He wanted to know, how the trade liberalization and integration of economic systems can benefit the agricultural and food economy can be studied in the case of Poland. He said I was at the Institute to learn how the experts in a leading research institute in Europe have assessed the impact of the EU integration of 2004 on agricultural and food economy and the...

Research project "Urban-rural connections: local policy and livehood strategies" of Paweł Chmielinski and Michal Dudek (IAFE-NRI) has been awarded in CERGE-EI Twelfth Annual Global Development Network Regional Research Competition and will be implemented in 2012.

"Competitivenes of food economy in the conditions of globalization and European integration"

In days 17 - 18 November 2011 in the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute took place the international conference: "Expectations and challenges for the section farming of food in the face following enlargements EU".

On July 26th, 2011 the meeting with Spanish representatives of the World Rural Forum Mrs Christine Wolf and Mr José Antonio Osaba took place at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economy - NRI. Institute was represented by Zbigniew Floriańczyk PhD, Marek Wigier PhD, Bożena Karwat-Woźniak PhD, Michał Dudek MSc., and Joanna Buks MSc. The aim of the visit was to establish cooperation with Institute within Family Farming Campaign in favor of an International Year of Family Farming ? IYFF...

Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute organised International scientific conference "European Union Food Sector after the last enlargements - conclusions for the future CAP" The Conference took place in Rajgród, in Lake Region of Poland 14 ? 16 of June 2011. The aim of the conference was to evaluate Common Agriculture Policy after two last enlargements. The Conference was chaired by Prof. Andrzej Kowalski, who delivered presentation "Assessment of the...

According to the TAIEX program, the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Forestry and Water Management of Serbia made an official visit to the IAFE-NRI on June 7th, 2011. The aim of the meeting was to acquaint the visitors with the methods of forecasting used by IAFE-NRI for analyzing the agricultural sector. During the meeting Dr Piotr Szajner explained the general rules of analyzing agricultural markets and preparing market reports. Afterwards Jan Świetlik, MSc. described...

On May 23rd, 2011 the meeting with members of the European Court of Auditors took place at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economy - NRI. During the meeting the results of the research conducted by the Institute on the impact of direct payments on farmers? incomes and profitability of investments on farms were presented. The Auditors were also interested in the research on the development of agricultural land market and the role of subsidies in the stabilization of farmers? incomes....