Barbara SawickaDr. Sawicka obtained her PhD from the Agricultural University in Lublin, Poland. Since 1999 she has been a Professor at the University of Life Science in Lublin and was promoted to Head of the Department of Plant Production Technology and CommoditiesSciences in 2012. She is an honorary member of the Advisory board of Journal Archives of Agricultural and Environmental Science, a member of the advisory board of International Journal of Research & Methodology in Social Science, and also the board of ‘STUDIA NATURAE”, for the Annals Universitatis Pedagoogicae Cracoviensis. She has over 280 original research papers, 8 books and 1 patent. Her research areas of interest are Agronomy, Agribusiness and Rural Development, Bioengineering, Environmental Protection, Food Sciences, Food Safety, Commodity Products. Read More Read Less