Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2023, 69(8):309-320 | DOI: 10.17221/184/2023-AGRICECON

Predispositions and challenges of agriculture from areas particularly facing natural or other specific constraints in Poland in the context of providing environmental public goods under EU policyOriginal Paper

Marek Zieliński ORCID...1, Jan Jadczyszyn ORCID...2, Jolanta Sobierajewska ORCID...1
1 Department of Economics of Agricultural and Horticultural Holdings, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
2 Department of Soil Science Erosion and Land Conservation, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation, State Research Institute, Puławy, Poland

The study’s main objective is to determine the predisposition and challenges of agriculture to provide environmental public goods to society in areas particularly facing natural or other specific constraints (ANCs) established within their current delimitation in Poland. Its organisational features, economic situation, and the degree of interest in measures specifically serving the protection of the natural environment under the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) EU were indicated. Statistically significant factors determined farmers’ willingness to participate in these measures. It turned out that farms from ANCs communes with particularly difficult conditions significantly contribute to the total production potential of agriculture in Poland. However, compared to farms with better natural conditions, they are characterised by a lower income per 1 ha of utilised agriculture area (UAA) and a higher share of subsidies, including those for participation in environmental measures, which were implemented to a greater extent. Based on the logistic regression model, it was found that in ANCs communes with particularly difficult conditions, the most important factor of farmers’ greater willingness to implement environmental measures was their higher level of education. On the other hand, this inclination was negatively affected by the higher income adjusted for operating subsidies per 1 ha of UAA.

Keywords: agri-environment-climate measure (AECM); environmental public goods; logistic regression model; New Institutional Economics (NIE); organic farming measure

Received: June 1, 2023; Revised: June 20, 2023; Accepted: June 21, 2023; Prepublished online: August 4, 2023; Published: August 11, 2023  Show citation

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Zieliński M, Jadczyszyn J, Sobierajewska J. Predispositions and challenges of agriculture from areas particularly facing natural or other specific constraints in Poland in the context of providing environmental public goods under EU policy. Agric. Econ. - Czech. 2023;69(8):309-320. doi: 10.17221/184/2023-AGRICECON.
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