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Cooperation in Managing the Environmental Function in Agriculture as a Condition for Integration of the Borderland Areas of the Czech Republic and Poland

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The aim of the study is to justify the need for cooperation in the sphere of managing the environmental function in the agriculture of the borderland areas of Poland and the Czech Republic. Until now, thanks to the so-called “green structure of the Common Agricultural Policy” the environment-related requirements in agriculture have come from the top and have been of the universal character. In the agricultural policy following 2020, it is state governments and multilevel management structures which will have been responsible for programming and implementing environmental and climatic strategies in this sector. In borderland areas, solutions that will be accepted may become a source of conflicts due to the unavoidable internalization of external effects of actions which are to be taken. In the study, on the basis of survey-based research conducted in trade agricultural holdings located in Opole Province, the authors conclude that farmers would prefer the environmental protection instruments employed to date to be integrated and new norms and actions on the national and regional levels to be established. Realization of environmental programs, however, will require institutional innovations, as well as changes in the system of knowledge and information related to agriculture. Cooperation in the sphere of creating common Internet- based platforms supporting farmers in securing stability of local natural capitals can give rise to broader cooperation in the field of protection of environment in borderland areas.