Open AccessZnaczenia ziemi rolniczej w kształtowaniu struktury społecznej polskiej wsi
Author(s) -
Renata Marks-Bielska
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
zeszyty naukowe szkoły głównej gospodarstwa wiejskiego w warszawie. ekonomika i organizacja gospodarki żywnościowej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2543-9863
pISSN - 2081-6979
DOI - 10.22630/eiogz.2018.122.12
Subject(s) - rural area , subsidy , agriculture , politics , agricultural land , investment (military) , land tenure , social security , economic growth , business , geography , political science , economic system , market economy , economics , law , archaeology
The aim of the study was to identify the importance of the evolution of land resources in shaping the social structure. The analysis was based on selected references from the Polish literature on the subject. The time range covers the years 1944–2016. Land plays an important role in shaping the social structure of the Polish countryside. The size of a farm used to be the primary criterion for social status in the countryside and among farmers. Currently, a position in the social structure of the Polish rural communities is highly determined by the area of farmed land (owned or leased). The situation of agricultural land users is changing. These are not only people who identify themselves with the profession of a farmer. The social structure composition in the Polish countryside comprises more and more people who are farmers in the light of law (they have the required acreage of agricultural land) but they do not reside in the countryside. Another group consists of so-called absent owners, who are connected with a village by possessing in it some agricultural land, but it is often treated as an investment (an increase in land prices and the possibility of receiving subsidies from the European Union and from the national budget). As a result of Poland’s political transformation, the social structure of rural communities now also comprises leases and buyers of land acquired by the Agricultural Property of the Treasury from former state farms.