ABSTRACT
In the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) agriculture is subject to fundamental changes during the process of transition to a market economy. Under such circumstances agricultural policies, as well as the impacts of agricultural practices, assume new dimensions. This is interesting for both industrialized and so-called ‘developing’ countries. The main questions raised by this transition process focus on structural changes in CEEC agriculture - changes from different types of state or collective farming to various forms of private farms, changes in farm size and regional distribution of agricultural production - and changes in the contribution of agriculture to the general economy and towards the new agricultural policies.
