On May 12-14, 2014 Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute organised international conference entitled "Achievements and challenges in the food sector and rural areas during the 10 years after EU enlargement".

 

The conference, under the multiannual research program "Competitiveness of Polish food economy in the conditions of globalization and European integration” took place in the Conference Centre Ossa in Rawa Mazowiecka. The aim of the conference was to present results of studies, conducted by leading European research centres of agricultural economics, on effects of implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy. In particular, objective of the event was recognition of socio-economic changes occurring in agriculture and food industry of the new EU Member States over the last ten years, but also: to assess the sustainability of these phenomena, the similarities and differences between countries, as well as their impact on the agribusiness in terms of regional and global development. At the conference were present colleagues form Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Japan, Romania, USA, Slovenia, France, Holand, Ukraine, Czesh Republic and Serbia. Significant participation at the Conference is achieved by the delegation of the Institute of Agricultural Economics, Belgrade, which represented the director Prof. Drago Cvijanovic, Principal Research Fellow and Predrag Vuković, M.A. Research assistant.