Q18 - Agricultural Policy; Food PolicyReturn

The Common Agricultural Policy has a major impact on the development of the agricultural sector in the countries of the European Union because this sector is significantly regulated in comparison with the sector of industry or services. A considerable part of the professional community deals with the question how the agricultural sector reacts to such form of regulation. The paper provides a more comprehensive synthesis of knowledge about the formation and development of the Common Agricultural Policy in order to create a comprehensive overview of the theoretical formation of this policy from the perspective of domestic and foreign authors.

The author thinks about food problem of the Sub-Saharian Africa's countries. Among factors contributing to the food crisis there are demographic development with a sharp rise of population, degradation of natural environment, also political instability and military conflicts. Solving of the unfavourable nutrition situation will have a long-term character and advanced states will have to partake in it. In the paper, a special air transport activity of the UNO in Sub-Saharian Africa is characterized which is unsubstitutable in places hardly accessible with land transportation or in areas with a strained safety situation. After good experience with planes Let L-410 in the service of the UNO other opportunities for Czech aircraft industry are outlined.