PL
Ogólnoświatowe tendencje kierunków przemian odnoszące się do wsi i rolnictwa oraz ich gospodarczy i przestrzenny wyraz powinny stanowić tło do rozważań o przyszłości rolnictwa w Polsce. Równie ważne przesłanki co do kierunków restrukturyzacji powinny wynikać z aktualnego stanu zagospodarowania wsi. Spójna i przestrzennie uwarunkowana polityka rozwoju wsi jest ważnym elementem kształtującym przyszłość państwa.
EN
Making choices between goals and objectives for the agricultural sector and rural areas is one of the biggest challenges for the political establishment. This is of paramount importance in times of momentous technological and cultural change, shifts on the economic and political sovereignty spectrum, and entering new phases of natural resource management etc. The authors highlight the disparity of goals for agriculture and rural areas in Poland and in other European countries, which is currently a much debated topic. The rationale for new choices in Poland is the country's newly acquired economic and political independence, major systemic change and the emerging need for mass privatisation and greater control of detrimental demographic trends as well as the rehabilitation of rural areas based on long historical tradition. Leading economies in the contemporary world are strongly supporting (state intervention) the development of their agriculture and rural areas. The old model of supporting production is giving way to social supports of the farming community. Developed economies are striving for maintaining the current levels of the farming population and promoting family farms. This trend should be a springboard for the discussion on restructuring Polish agriculture, i.e. on introducing performance indicators and market based mechanisms as primary evaluation criteria. The article briefly points out to physical diversification of Poland's rural areas and its consequences for the structure of the agricultural sector. A brief overview of documents is presented that reveal the difficulties encountered by makers of the economic, social and physical policies for rural areas and fanning sector. References to the provisions of the Rio protocols have been made to draft a preliminary action plan to restore the sector's ability to develop.