Diversity of agrarian structures in EU member states - dynamic approach
2013
Majchrzak, A., Poznan Univ. of Economics (Poland)
The paper concerns the issue of shaping of the agricultural structures in the European Union member states. The aim is to assess the occurrence of uniform trend in changes of the volume structure of farms and owned agricultural land. Therefore, the author tries to answer the question whether the validity of the common principles of the Common Agricultural Policy in the EU causes alignment in the existing gap in this area. For this purpose, statistics on agricultural resources in the EU showing the current shape of the agrarian structure in the EU-27 as well as the dynamics in the years 2003-2007, was used. To illustrate the degree of differentiation of the structures, Shannon Diversity Index was applied. It turns out that despite the assumptions about the dominant role of family farms in the European agriculture, agrarian structures are characterized by significant diversity. Moreover, there are no trends to its standardization, and the existing diversity is maintained.
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