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This is Bazyli Czyżewski. I am a researcher from the Poznań University of Economics and Business (Poland) dealing, inter alia, with the issue of sustainable agriculture and small farms. 

There are 600,000 to 800,000 small farms in Poland according to different definitions. The question how small farms can contribute to the sustainable development (in which dimensions) is the tricky one. According to my research and observations I can say in which dimensions they'd rather not. Paradoxically, it is the environment. Small farms are not environment friendly. They cause relatively more damage than big ones, especially when they get money to enhance their production. It is the old question of inducing progress in agriculture. Small farms lack knowledge of ecologically friendly practices and lack ecological consciousness. It takes much more time to induce knowledge and awareness than to improve productivity. Even if small farms get means they implement in the first line the cheapest, old technology (fertilizers, machinery) which is not environmentally friendly. You can find our research results supporting these thesis here: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Environmental-Impact-of-Different-Models-of-Agriculture. Thus, the aspect of social sustainability and vitality of rural areas is the more important here but these goals can be achieved unfortunately at some expense of the environment.
 
Bazyli Czyżewski, PhD. (hab.)
Associate professor
Department of Education and Personnel Development
Investigator in Research Group of Macroeconomics and Agricultural Economics Departmnent
Poznań University of Economics
Poland
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bazyli_Czyzewski
E-mail: b.czyzewski (at) ue.poznan.pl

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