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Abstract
In recent years, food security—defined as the economic and physical availability of food—has become a topic of particular importance to European countries, including Poland. In the European Union, the production volume of protein raw materials has failed to meet the demand for many years now. The deficiency reaches 60–80% of protein raw material and is covered by imported goods, primarily including soya bean meal sourced from the Americas. This type of dependency could pose a threat to food security in Poland and in many other EU countries. The main purpose of this paper was to identify the condition of the market for vegetable protein feed around the world, in the EU and in Poland and to use the example of Poland to indicate the economic and environmental consequences of globalization processes affecting the feed industry. An attempt was also made to determine the impact of these processes on sustainable development and on self-sufficiency in vegetable proteins. As a source of information, this study relied on numeric data from databases delivered by the FAO, FEFAC, Alltech, Oil World, Central Statistical Office and the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics—the National Research Institute. The study period was 2010–2018. The methodology proposed by Chechelski was used to assess the globalization process in the Polish feed industry. Primary data used to meet the objective defined above were retrieved from empirical studies carried out with 180 selected farms from all over the country and 74 feed factories. One of the conclusions is that the globalization process in the Polish market for vegetable protein feed resulted in changing the feed production technology by marginalizing the use of native sources of plant protein. As the farmers lack interest in cultivating these plants, they cannot reap the natural benefits derived from them. From the perspective of environmental impacts, this perturbs the sustainable agriculture concept.
Highlights
The future shape of the Common Agricultural Policy has been discussed for several years, both by politicians of the European Commission and by the scientific community
This paper focuses on two research goals: (1) to identify the condition of the market for vegetable protein feed around the world in the EU and in Poland; (2) to use the example of Poland to indicate the economic and environmental consequences of globalization processes affecting the feed industry
The European Union has a small market for native vegetable protein raw materials: the cultivation of protein crops accounts for only 3% of arable land
Summary
The future shape of the Common Agricultural Policy has been discussed for several years, both by politicians of the European Commission and by the scientific community. Due to the economy being dependent on imports of vegetable proteins, there is a threat to food security in physical terms. This is especially realistic in the case of a crisis in the Americas which are the main source of vegetable proteins. A Multiannual Program called “Improving the domestic sources of vegetable protein and its production, trade system and use in feed” was implemented in Poland from 2011 to 2015 (the financing was provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development). A part of the research project was focused on the economic conditions for protein crops production in Poland This included analyzing both the market infrastructure and the economic viability of using native protein crops in animal feed production. The last area included in the research plan was the animal feed industry segment as the final buyer of seed produced
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