The significance of human resources in the changing agricultural geography of Czechia (the Czech Republic) since 1990
Abstract
A process involving an overall transformation of agriculture in Czechia began with a change in the political system at the beginning of the 1990s. This process of transition in Czechia agriculture is part of overall structural changes in the economy and society and, to some extent, it also part of the internationalization and globalization trends takong place in Europe and in the world.
This impacts of the transformation of the Czech economy and society have been very important for agricultural sector and for the process of space polarization particularly in peripheral, marginal, areas. The key processes of the current landscape changes in terms of the transformation of the intensity and regional differentiation of land use since 1990 have been the transfer of land and means of production to the original owners or their descendants.
Only a few really "new" land owners began to farm the land returned since the ties to the land had been severed over the past forty years and most new owner lacked the necessary experience and courage to begin businesses in agriculture particularly because of the rate of return on the needed investment is very long. A major factor influencing the process of regional differentiation is the quality of the human and social resources available.
These constitute a key component of local and regional development as well as promoting the economic and social "maturity" of rural areas.