Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski (born 11 February 1961) is a Polish politician, farmer and member of the

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since 2011. He served as the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development between 20 June 2018 and 6 October 2020.

Biography

In 1985 Ardanowski graduated from Bydgoszcz Academy of Technology and Agriculture with a

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() degree in

Agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

. During his studies he was a member of the

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and was actively involved in democratic opposition to the communist rule activities. Ardanowski was elected in

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

a member of the

for the Sejm Constituency no. 5 as a

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candidate. He was reelected in

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

and

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now serving his fourth term. On 20 June 2018 he was appointed a Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development in the First Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki. He remained in office in the Second Cabinet of Morawiecki until 6 October 2020. On 24 July 2024 he joined Kukiz'15's parliamentary circle, after having left the

party a day earlier. Ardanowski subsequently founded the Freedom and Prosperity party which was formally registered on 19 September 2024. The party's stated aims are to become a

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option for the right-wing, believing that the biggest right wing opposition party Law and Justice has lost its coalition-making abilities.

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