Abstract
Over the last three decades, agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe has undergone very profound change. This first and foremost reflected the collapse of the communist system, as well as accession to the European Union in the case of most of the CEECs. The work detailed here has thus had as its cognitive goal the identification of trends regarding selected components of agriculture’s spatial structure which have included agrarian structure, agricultural land use, and the structure of agricultural production. Attention has also been paid to what conditioned the transformation, as well as the spatial differences that characterised it. With a view to these objectives being achieved, 11 current EU Member States in the region were analysed, above all by reference to source materials from EUROSTAT and the FAO.
Highlights
More than 30 years have elapsed since the fall of the Eastern Bloc; and the CEECs’ adoption of a new socioeconomic and political system
The shares cattle account for in Poland, Bulgaria and Croatia are all close to the average level for the region as a whole, while in the remaining countries, well over half of all livestock units are present in the form of cattle
2 The analysis in this part of the study related primarily to the period from 2005 onwards, in which a majority of the region’s states had become Member States of the European Union
Summary
More than 30 years have elapsed since the fall of the Eastern Bloc; and the CEECs’ adoption of a new socioeconomic and political system. In most of the region’s states (Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia and Poland), family farms belong to a group of small entities accounting for areas of less than 10 ha.
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