Chapter 5. Polish Rural Areas and Agriculture As Beneficiaries of the European Union Funds – Iwona Nurzyńska
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Team of authors: Agnieszka Baer-Nawrocka, Jerzy Bartkowski, Barbara Chmielewska, Barbara Fedyszak-Radziejowska, Izasław Frenkel, Piotr Gradziuk, Iwona Nurzyńska, Walenty Poczta, Renata Przygodzka, Jerzy Wilkin, Józef St. Zegar Cover design: Katarzyna Juras Cover photo © © puchan / Fotolia.com ISBN 978-83-7383-862-8 doi: 10.7366/9788373838628 Copyright © by Foundation for the Development of Polish Agriculture (FDPA), Warsaw 2016 The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the FDPA. Foundation for the Development of Polish Agriculture ul. Gombrowicza 19, 01-682 Warszawa www.fdpa.org.pl; e-mail: [email protected] Typesetted by Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar Sp. z o.o. ul. Wiślana 8 00-317 Warszawa www.scholar.com.pl; e-mail: [email protected] Contents Preface .............................................................................................................................. 7 Chapter 1. Polish rural areas vs. the country and Europe – synthesis of the Report – Jerzy Wilkin .................................................................................................................. 9 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 9 1.1. Development gaps separating the rural areas from towns start to close ................. 10 1.2. Transformations of the rural population .................................................................. 10 1.3. Polish agriculture – progress and underdevelopment .............................................. 11 1.4. Quality of life in rural areas – statistical indicators and public perception ............. 13 1.5. Agricultural tax system and its consequences .......................................................... 14 1.6. Rural areas and ecology ........................................................................................... 15 1.7. Rural areas decide about the results of election in Poland ....................................... 15 Summary ......................................................................................................................... 16 Chapter 2. Population of rural areas – Izasław Frenkel .................................................. 17 2.1. Change tendencies in the rural population numbers ................................................ 17 2.2. Demographic factors of rural population changes ................................................... 18 2.3. Changes in administrative division into urban and rural areas ................................ 23 2.4. Structure of the rural population in terms of age and sex ....................................... 24 2.5. Employment ............................................................................................................. 25 2.6. Unemployment in the rural areas ............................................................................. 29 Summary ......................................................................................................................... 31 Tabele .............................................................................................................................. 32 Chapter 3: Rural communities – stabilisation of the process of change – Barbara Fedyszak-Radziejowska ............................................................................................. 52 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 52 3.1. The rural inhabitants about their place of residence. .............................................. 53 3.2. The human and social capital in the rural areas ...................................................... 55 3.3. Social capital in the Polish rural areas ..................................................................... 57 3.4. The financial standing of the rural inhabitants ........................................................ 62 3.5. Religiousness of the rural inhabitants ..................................................................... 64 3.6. The rural areas and farmers about the European Union .......................................... 64 Summary ......................................................................................................................... 65 Chapter 4. Polish agriculture vs. agriculture in the European Union – Agnieszka Baer-Nawrocka, Walenty Poczta ................................................................................ 67 4.1. The role of Polish agriculture in the national economy and its production potential – principal trends ......................................................................................... 67 4.2. Structure of Polish agriculture compared to the European Union agriculture ......... 73 4.3. Production and economic performance in Polish agriculture and other EU Member States ..................................................................................................... 80 4.4. Development barriers and opportunities of the Polish agriculture .......................... 84 4.5. Innovation and smart development potential of Polish agriculture ........................ 85 Summary ......................................................................................................................... 86 Chapter 5. Polish rural areas and agriculture as beneficiaries of the European Union Funds – Iwona Nurzyńska .......................................................................................... 88 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 88 5 5.1. Institutional effects of integration with the EU in the sphere of agriculture and rural areas ............................................................................................................ 88 5.2. Financial flows between Poland and the European Union in 2004-2015 ................ 90 5.3. Common Agricultural Policy and its beneficiaries in the rural areas ...................... 95 5.4. European Cohesion Policy in financing the rural development in Poland ............ 103 Summary ....................................................................................................................... 106 Chapter 6. Rural population incomes: Sources, diversification and range of poverty – Józef St. Zegar, Barbara Chmielewska .............................................. 107 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 107 6.1. Sources of rural population incomes ...................................................................... 107 6.2. Level of rural population incomes ......................................................................... 113 6.3. Poverty in rural areas ............................................................................................. 115 6.4. Consumption in rural households .......................................................................... 118 6.5. Spatial differentiation ............................................................................................. 120 Summary ....................................................................................................................... 124 Chapter 7. The tax and social security system in the rural areas – Renata Przygodzka ............................................................................................................... 126 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 126 7.1. Tax in agriculture ................................................................................................... 126 7.2. Social security in the rural areas ............................................................................ 134 7.3. Statutory property insurance in agriculture ............................................................ 143 Summary ...................................................................................................................... 146 Chapter 8. Significance of agriculture and the rural areas for the improvement of the ecological situation and power supply system of Poland – Piotr Gradziuk ...... 148 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 148 8.1. Ecosystem services rendered by agriculture and the rural areas ............................ 149 8.2. Climatic change – a challenge for the rural areas .................................................. 156 8.3. Renewable energy sources – an opportunity for agriculture and the rural areas ... 161 Summary ....................................................................................................................... 167 Chapter 9. Political map of the Polish rural areas – Jerzy Bartkowski ......................... 168 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 168 9.1. General social and political situation in the country .............................................. 169 9.2. European election – 25 May 2014 ........................................................................ 172 9.3. Local government election in 10 November 2014 ................................................. 176 9.4. Presidential election on 10 May 2015 (the 1st round) and 24 May