The principles of the European Union's programme for developing rural areas aim at: increasing the productivity of agriculture; providing agricultural people with a proper standard and level of living; stabilizing agricultural and food product markets. To achieve those targets and goals, special legal, marketing, supportive and financial tools are applied. The pro-ecological trend in the development of rural areas presses us into improving the conditions and state of our natural environment through the elimination of unfavourable phenomena. One of the measures is to support ecological (also known as organic) agriculture because its potential, as well as the continuously growing demand for organic food products are not sufficiently utilized so far; thus the promotion of ecological agriculture should absolutely be a priority. Poland's access to EU stimulated the realization of those basic principles of the UE programme, which refer to the development of agriculture. The principles in question assumed that measures and activities focused on some key objectives should be jointly financed. Those objectives are as follows: - improving natural environment through the elimination of unfavourable phenomena, protecting & preserving culture and nature-landscape values, as well as motivating & stimulating the development of retarded regions; - making the policy of economic ...
An analysis, identification and assessment of the local conditions of agrotourismdevelopment in rural areas is performed in the paper. The important role oftourism both in the state policy and regional policy have been shown in the stateand regional documents. In most of European countries off-farming activities becomemore and more important as a source of income for farmers' families. Insome regions agrotourism can be regarded as a significant non-agricultural activity.In Poland the data of Agricultural Census indicates that the number of farmswith off-farms activity increased. The agrotourist farms are still more and moreimportant in many parts of Poland, especially in the wi tokrzyskie voivodship.The local and voivodship authorities are obliged to improve and invest in agrotouristbase, also using the European Union funds.This study is the analysis of natural and social-economic elements of geographicalenvironment in the wi tokrzyskie voivodship. The article is a trial ofshowing how rural areas are diversified for agrotourism. ...
Study of conditions and directions of land management does not solve ade-quately the significant problems and social conflicts, so that follows it can't be the proper method for balancing the development. As part of an almost unlimited autonomy of local government first-level-local difficult the implementation of pub-lic tasks. The suggested solution that will ensure sustainable land development are changes in the legal system, providing for: a hierarchical, closely linked to land planning system, financial responsibility and criminal liability for people making wrong decisions on land use planning, economic justification for significant changes in strategy planning.
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Precise analysis of agricultural structure gives among others possibility of rational spatial planning, monitoring of the management of a local government's property and supporting of the acquisition of structural funds from EU.The aim of the paper is to show course and directions of changes of agri-cultural structure. Suitable analysis of cadastral data allowed to point at areas of the biggest priority of performing improvement of agricultural. Reasonable plan-ning of arrangement - agricultural works, that is indication of priority areas for this kind of processes from the level of region is only possible in case of consistent and synchronized spatial databases, for which cadastre is the basis of information. The area of interest is Małopolskie region. ...
Interactive Web application is a broad term. There are almost no limits creating Interactive Web applications. With the knowledge, skills, software and financial resources creating Interactive Web applications may be limited only by the imagination of the project team. Free computer techniques and tools created by passionate communities are becoming common and allow to create web application at a low cost. Network applications available on the Internet can be used in the daily work of the public administration supporting the decision making process. The local community can also benefit with these applications.This paper presents some techniques and tools that were used to prepare web applications with varying degrees of interactivity. In addition, the paper presents a practical application and implementation in selected Malopolskie municipalities. ...
The current paper presents the results of evaluation of the influence of selected measures within Rural Development Programme (RDP), such as spatial development, afforestation, land consolidation, water management, village renewal and agri-environmental programmes on rural areas in Poland.The data used in the study cover the years 2004-2015, and were collected from the reports of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Polish Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture (ARMA), Polish Central Statistical Office (CSO), with special consideration given to normative acts concerning the Rural Development Plan 2007-2013 and 2014-2020, and the results of a study on different aspects of rural development conducted at the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute in Puławy (IUNG-PIB). Our study clearly shows that aforementioned measures differ significantly in terms of the level of implementation in Poland. Thus, the spatial development operation, one of the most important activities in relation to the sustainable development of rural areas, has not been introduced in RDP as s separately task. Additionally, the initiatives regarding water retention were also not fully implemented under the RDP 2007-2013 because of the shortage of time. The process of land consolidation has contributed only to very little change in ...
