Nina Drejerska

Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW | SGGW · Department of Development Policy and Marketing

The study delves into the nuanced challenges rural inhabitants face within the contemporary labour market landscape. As rural areas experience dynamic socio-economic shifts, this research aims to comprehensively understand the intricate intersection between rural livelihoods and emerging labour market trends. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the...

Over the last few decades, short food supply chains and local food markets, where farmers either sell their products directly to consumers or use a limited number of intermediaries, have developed worldwide in rural and urban areas. They complement conventional, often globalized, long food chains where small farmers have little bargaining power, an...

The study aims to identify the importance of agriculture as a sector of professional activity of the inhabitants of rural areas in the Mazowieckie Region. The statistical section uses data from Eurostat and data available from the Local Data Bank, including the Labour Force Survey. The empirical research used the CAWI method, with a questionnaire o...

This paper employs bibliometric analysis to determine the scientific landscape of the influence of social transfers on female labor supply. We determine the scale and scope of the subject, as well as interconnections between various research fields, utilizing the Scopus database. The most significant areas of the research landscape are (i) labor, (...

Environmental, social and economic perspectives, derived from the sustainability approach and present within by the resilience concept, are integral parts of food systems. At the same time they are clearly articulated within the EU farm-to-fork (F2F) strategy referring to building up resilience to possible future crises as diseases and pandemics. T...

Over 30% of the world’s land area is covered by forests. Approximately 761 million m3 of wood is harvested annually in Europe (2017). The aim of the paper is to assess the amount of wood (biomass) produced in Europe per year, as it determines the amount of carbon dioxide released from wood because of combustion for heating and energy purposes. The...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe organic food supply and demand from the perspective of evolutionary economics. Furthermore, identification of motives of organic food purchasing as well as the most important distribution channels was performed. Design/methodology/approach This study included review of statistical data available on...

Purpose Cooperatives play a dominant role in the European dairy sector. The aim of the study is to define a sustainable business model of dairy cooperatives and explore how stakeholders can contribute to innovation processes generated in this ecosystem. Design/methodology/approach Starting from theoretical assumption and investigation of three maj...

The concept of a circular economy is becoming increasingly important not only for academics but also for other stakeholders. Notably, the local government representatives are implementing such solutions, in response to the population growth and development, connected with increased consumption. This paper aims to recognize existing local solutions...

Research on sectoral employment is an important part of economic investigation devoted to structural change, traditionally referred to when describing economic growth. At the same time, agricultural employment has been traditionally studied as an important feature characterizing rural economies. The main aim of the paper is to investigate agricultu...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate marginal, localized and restricted (MLR) activities in pork processing on local food markets in Poland, and identify the value generated for individual links in the supply chain. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes a case study approach to investigate the enterprises operating as MLRs. Da...

Transformation of the existing economy model to Circular Economy models cannot take place without changes and innovations in food chain. The paper aims to investigate process of realization of the Circular Economy paradigm in food chain in the EU, in some member states focusing on Poland. The traditional operations cycle at 5-stage approach was car...

A food supply chain integrates three important economic sectors: agriculture, food processing, and distribution sectors. Integration processes are one out of different ways of efficiency's improvement of supply chains; they are also the key challenges of contemporary management in the global economy. Common activities of partners in a supply chain...

Agriculture, forestry and fishing have been still a very important part of the labour market. However, the situation is diversified across Polish subregions. The objective of the study is to investigate sectoral employment diversification in rural areas across Polish subregions (NUTS3). In order to do it, data on the subregional employment structur...

A number of employees is one of the basic indicators applied for identification of the economic relevance of an industry or an economic sector. Referring to nearly 18.6 million people employed in the 28 EU Member States within the bioeconomy in 2014, it can be stated that this a an economic sphere of significant importance in the European economy....

Unemployment is traditionally a phenomenon analysed by economists. Recently these investigations are often run with use of methods allowing for identification of spatial autocorrelation on the labour market. The aim of the study is to analyse spatial interrelationships of the unemployment rate between Polish regions (NUTS2) and then to verify if an...

Evaluation of the socioeconomic development level of communes in the Mazowieckie region with use of methods of the multivariate statistical analysis SUMMARY Statistical methods of analysis allow to investigate objects taking into account a few features at the same time, so their increase research efficiency. Therefore, it can be stated that selecte...

Rural areas in Poland have faced significant changes recently. The primary sector has been decreasing its contribution to local employment. The aim of the paper is to identify to what extent rural areas in Poland are destinations for incoming commuters. DEGURBA framework was used as a reference for a urban-rural typology of local units. The Nationa...

The aim of this article was to define the effects of projects carried out and co-financed with structural funds at the local level. To do that, qualitative research in the form of in-depth interviews was conducted among project beneficiaries (territorial governments). The information about the projects was collected in the years 2013-2016 under the...

Although some new chances for cross-border cooperation occur both for open boundaries of the European Union and the Schengen zone as well as for external EU borders, some significant differences can be seen in the economic performance of these territories. The aim of the paper is to compare development level of Polish regions situated near the EU e...

Łączenie wątków związanych z teoriami wzrostu endogenicznego oraz nową geografią ekonomiczną w badaniach nad wzrostem społeczno-gospodarczym doprowadziło do rozwoju New Economic Geography and Growth (NEGG). Metoda regresji ważonej geograficznie (GWR) jest w takich ramach właściwym narzędziem analizy, ponieważ uwzględniając czynniki rozważane w teor...

Warsaw, as the capital of Poland, has relatively good economic and social conditions compared to the rest of the country. It strongly influences neighbouring areas, which are rural, from the administrative point of view. However, they are not like traditionally perceived rural areas with dominating agriculture—they have undergone significant transf...

This volume traces selected issues of economic and social development in the Warsaw suburban zone. It was elaborated as a part of the project entitled “Economic and social determinants of rural areas development of the Mazovia region in the suburban and external zone of Warsaw”, No N N114 145240, financed by the National Science Centre (Poland). Th...

Wobec nieefektywności dotychczasowej europejskiej polityki spójności prowadzone są dyskusje na temat zmian jej paradygmatu. Podejście wyrównawcze proponuje zastąpić się polityką rozwoju regionalnego opartą na wspieraniu zarówno konkurencyjności jak i spójności. Ważnymi elementami implementacyjnymi każdego modelu polityki rozwoju regionalnego są doc...

The aim of the paper is to present the current dilemmas of regional policy in Poland (the model of equalization vs. the model based on competitiveness and cohesion) in a context of the good governance rule. Realization of this aim was possible through a review of literature and documents connected with regional policy as well as issues of good gove...

W opracowaniu zaprezentowano wyniki badań własnych i badań innych autorów nad aktywnością zawodową ludności wiejskiej. Wybrane zostały te ich elementy, które można interpretować w kontekście jednej ze współczesnych teorii rynku pracy, mianowicie teorii „swoich” i „obcych” (insider-outsider theory), zakładającej znaczne koszty wymiany zatrudnionych...

Celem pracy jest prezentacja części wyników badań, uzyskanych w ramach projektu badawczego pt. Analiza i ocena sytuacji kobiet wiejskich na rynku pracy współfinansowanego z Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego, obejmujących zagadnienia związane z zasobami czynników produkcji i wykorzystaniem zewnętrznych zasobów pracy w badanych gospodarstwach indywi...

W opracowaniu przedstawiono zmiany liczby i odsetka badanych wiejskich gospodarstw domowych, których członkowie w przeszłości mieli doświadczenia w prowadzeniu własnej działalności gospodarczej, będą też nie byli aktywni w tym zakresie, w okresie przed sytuacją zastaną w trakcie przeprowadzenia badania. Wzięto pod uwagę zróżnicowanie regionalne ora...