On 2 -3 December 2020, an international online conference "Digital Transformation of the Agricultural Value Chain - Opportunities, Challenges and the Role of Science" was held. It was organized jointly by BMEL (Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft) and EURAGRI (European Agricultural Research Initiative) as part of activities carried out by the German Presidency of the EU Council. Katarzyna Kosior, PhD, a representative of the IAFE ? NRI, was one of the participants of this conference. She delivered a paper titled "Agricultural Data: Diversity of Players, Data Relations and Data Categories".

On March 5-6, 2020, the Institute hosted a workshop in order to discuss the possibilities of using the system dynamics method to build a model which enables its users to analyze the development of different sections of bioeconomy at the national level. The system dynamics method uses structures that allow for reflecting non-linear relations, in which feedbacks serve as a basis for complex systems. Thus, it allows for developing and testing relations between system elements and considering the needs resulting from changing socio-economic reality on an ongoing basis.

On October 29, 2019, the first meeting of the Polish Platform for Dialogue on Sustainable Agriculture took place at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute. This platform is one of five such platforms created as part of the project lead by the Institute for European Environmental Policy. The aim of the project is to intensify the debate on the future of agriculture and support efforts to achieve the level of public expenditure on research and development in European agriculture that will ensure the EU's compliance with its international obligations related to the climate and sustainable development.

On 28th March 2019, the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Food Economy - National Research Institute hosted a delegation of representatives of the following institutions: The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the possibilities of cooperation and to present the Chinese delegation the key issues related to the functioning and development of Polish agriculture and agri-food industry with particular attention to environmental issues.

On 18 December 2018, the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Food Economy - National Research Institute hosted a delegation of representatives of the following institutions: Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Nanjing Jiangbei New District Management Committee, China Information Development Inc., Ltd. Shanghai, Nanjing Guoguo Food Co ., Ltd., Jiangsu Huanong Agricultural Market Management Company and Jiangsu Hongkun Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. The purpose of the meeting was to...

On 10-12 December 2018, the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics – National Research Institute has organized the International Scientific Conference entitled “Industrial versus small farms – competitors or partners” in Jachranka, near Warsaw. The conference was organized in the framework of the Multi-Annual Programme 2015-2019 “The Polish and the EU agricultures 2020+. Challenges, chances, threats,...

On December 13, 2018, the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Food Economy - National Research Institute hosted a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs of South Korea and Korea Agri-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation. The purpose of the meeting was to present the Korean delegation the issues related to the functioning and development of Polish agriculture and agri-food industry.

Dr. Michał Soliwoda (Department of Agricultural Finance at Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics – National Research Institute, IAFE-NRI)   conducted the research workshop  that included a scientific seminar entitled  “Selected theoretical and empirical problems of agricultural finance in Poland” on October 9, 2018 at  IAFE-NRI. Dr Serhiy Zabolotnyy (Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW,  Faculty of Economic Sciences,...