Изменение социально-экономической активности земледельцев в европейской модели сельского хозяйства

After access to EU Lithuania has to adopt the Common Agriculture Policy, whose background is the European model of agriculture. The main attribute of the European model of agriculture in multifunctionality. Multifunctional agriculture provides public goods or positive externalities, such as environmental services, natural resource protection, rural landscape and recreation areas. Agriculture contributes to fulfilling societal goals like viability of rural areas and their development, food security, preservation of cultural heritage. The esthetic values of the Lithuanian countryside, farmers employment and the changes of income level depend on the way how the European model of agriculture will be implemented, how effectively the system of public goods and their compensasion will function. The European model of agriculture creates the environment for solving socioeconomic problems in rural areas of Lithuania. The implementation of this model changes understanding of agricultural activities and trends of farmers social and economic activities. Though specific feature of Lithuanian agriculture and rural areas development influence the complexity of this processVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij