Paradigm shift: how women are establishing agroecology in Central and Eastern Europe

The number of farmers in Poland is declining, but fortunately, a group in rural areas is trying to establish farms based on new principles. These young women are committed to the ideas of agroecology: diversification of production, cooperation in rural areas, and protection of the environment.
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Approximately twenty years have passed since Poland and other Central European countries joined the European Union. This period has been characterized by dynamic development, thanks in part to recent EU funding for agriculture. Since then, agriculture in Poland has become much more professional, but at the same time, like the agricultural sector in the so-called old EU member states, it faces numerous problems.

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Ruta Śpiewak and Klaudia Kryńska - Heinrich Boell Stiftung

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