We recommend a text on the vision of rural development in the EU and the European Union and the contradictory challenges of, on the one hand, strengthening exports and thus industrial food production and, on the other hand, realizing the ambitions of the European Green Deal and the From Field to Table strategy. Will rural areas, and in Poland as much as 52% of the country’s area and more than 15 million people living in rural areas, continue to be an area of struggle between big business and the interests of local communities? Should the Common Agricultural Policy focus on supporting food production or on social, developmental, environmental issues related to the quality of life in rural areas?

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