Research subjects and tasks for 2020

I Unit costs of the selected agricultural products – Head of the research team: Associate Professor Aldona Skarżyńska, PhD, hab.

Research tasks:

• Production, costs and incomes generated from the selected agricultural products – Associate Professor A. Skarżyńska, PhD, hab.
• Estimates of the economic results for the selected agricultural products – I. Augustyńska, MSc

II Economic aspects of rural and agricultural development – Head of the research team: Professor Józef St. Zegar, PhD, hab.

Research tasks:

• The question of the agrarian economy today – W. Wrzaszcz, PhD
• Economic factors in the living standards of rural inhabitants – Associate Prof. M. Kwasek, PhD, hab.
• Economic accounts for agriculture (EAA) – Z. Floriańczyk, PhD

III Financial policy towards rural areas and agriculture in the changing conditions at the national, European and global levels – Head of the research team: Professor Jacek Kulawik, PhD, hab.

Research tasks:

• Monitoring of the financial situation in the Polish agriculture and on rural areas and in their surroundings – Professor J. Kulawik, PhD, hab.
• Social costs of gaining budgetary funds for the subsidies in agriculture – B. Wieliczko, PhD
• The concept of ”fiscal incidence” as a tool to optimize the public support for the Polish agriculture -  M. Soliwoda, PhD 

IV Efficiency of functioning of economic entities in agriculture emphasising their place in the food chain and the ecological issues – Head of the research team: Professor Wojciech Józwiak, PhD, hab.

Research tasks:

• Evaluation of functioning of farms in terms of the protection of climate and the environment  – Prof. W. Józwiak, PhD, hab.

V Transformation of the food industry in the light of globalization and European integration processes – Head of the research team: Iwona Szczepaniak, PhD

Research tasks:

• Institutional conditions of development of the EU agri-food sector – the analysis of decision-making in the EU – Associate Professor R. Grochowska, PhD, hab
• Economic and financial analyses of the food industry – J. Drożdż, MSc;
• The role of direct foreign investments in the Polish food industry and investment activity of the Polish food companies – Ł. Ambroziak, PhD

VI Research on the agri-food markets – Head of the research team: Piotr   Szajner, PhD

Research tasks:

• Situation and development of the market in products of animal origin – D. Zawadzka, PhD
• Situation and development of the market in products of plant origin – P. Szajner, PhD
• Situation and development of the market of means of production – A. Zalewski, MSc

VII Processes of the social development of rural areas and agriculture – Head of the research team: Marek Wigier, PhD

Research tasks:

• Social conditions in the transformation of rural areas – Associate Professor A. Wrzochalska, PhD, hab.
• Differentiation of the family farms according to their activity in the market – B. Karwat-Woźniak, PhD
• The spatial policy in the rural development towards the cohesion of the EU regions – P. Chmieliński, PhD

VIII Analysis of the production and economic situation of agriculture and food economy – Head of the research team: Professor Marian Podstawka, PhD, hab.

IX  Polish horticulture in the Single European Market – Head of the research team: Associate Professor Bożena Nosecka, PhD, hab.

Research tasks: 

• Price relations in the marketing chain of fresh and processed fruits and vegetables in Poland and the selected EU countries – Associate Prof. B. Nosecka, PhD, hab.
• Non-price factors in the development of Polish exports of fruits and vegetables and their processed products – A. Bugała, MSc

X  Analytical aspects of proper management in agriculture and their implications for the agricultural policy – Head of the research team: Professor Włodzimierz Rembisz, PhD, hab.

Research tasks:

• Processes of the price integration of agricultural markets – Prof. Sz. Figiel, PhD, hab.
• Decomposition of income effects of agricultural producers – A. Pawłowska, MSc
• Agricultural policy tools versus social well-being – A. Bezat-Jarzębowska, PhD