Socio-economic and environmental parameters and results of rural development under the CAP: the case of Bulgaria

This monograph was prepared under the Multi-Annual Programme 2015-2019 "The Polish and the EU agricultures 2020+.Challenges, chances, threats, proposals".The publication is a collection of selected papers delivered at the 22th edition of the International Scientific Conference organized by the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics -National Research Institute.The theme of the conference was "The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Unionthe present and the future.The conference was placed on 5-7 December 2017 in Stary Jab onki in Poland.Common Agricultural Policy was and still is one of the key pillars of European integration.Published in two volumes materials refer directly to the current and future of the CAP in EU and non EU member states, the strategic objectives and principles of agricultural policy for the agri-food sector and rural areas, address the issues of equilibrium between agriculture, forestry and land use, relate to the dilemmas for the EU budget and the CAP after 2020, CAP instruments and their adjustment, transformations of the rural economy and programming of the rural and agricultural policy, as well as productivity and production efficiency and tensions between sectoral action and between different models of territorial activities.