On behalf of the Editorial Board of the Agricultural Economics – Czech journal, we invite submissions in the thematic issue:
“Bioeconomic strategies and systems as tools for achieving sustainable agriculture and rural development“.
Guest Editors for the thematic issue:
Associate Professor Eva Cudlínová (University of South Bohemia)
Professor Miloslav Lapka (University of South Bohemia)
Professor Sandy Rikoon (University of Missouri)
More information about the thematic issue can be found (download) here .
Manuscript submission information:
Authors are invited to submit original research articles related to the theme of the issue. Submissions must adhere to the journal's guidelines and be submitted through the online submission system. Authors must submit a cover letter, stating their intent to publish in the thematic issue, along with the manuscript. The inclusion of the manuscript in the thematic issue is at the discretion of the Editorial Board.
Manuscripts submitted to this thematic issue will be peer-reviewed and will be subjected to the standard manuscript handling fee.
Papers should be original, unpublished, and not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Detailed Instructions for authors can be found on the journal homepage.
Important dates:
Submission open: May 1, 2024
Submission deadline: October 31, 2024
Impact factor (WoS):
2022: 2.2
Q2 – Economics; Q3 – Agricultural Economics & Policy
5-Year Impact Factor: 2.1
SCImago Journal Rank (SCOPUS):
Agricultural Economics
- ISSN 0139-570X (Print)
- ISSN 1805-9295 (On-line)
An international open access peer-reviewed journal published by the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1954 (by 1999 under the title Zemědělská ekonomika)
- The journal is administered by an international Editorial Board
- Editor-in-Chief: prof. Ing. Lukáš Čechura, Ph.D.
- Co-editors: Ing. Jarmila Curtiss, Ph.D., prof. Ing. Jindřich Špička, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Pavla Vrabcová, Ph.D.
- Executive Editor: Mgr. Barbora Vobrubová, Ph.D.
- The journal is published monthly
Aims & Scope
The journal publishes scientific articles: original scientific papers dealing with agricultural subjects from the sphere of economics, management, informatics, ecology, social economy and sociology. An extensive scope of subjects in fact covers the whole of agribusiness, that means economic relations of suppliers and producers of inputs for agriculture and food industry, problems from the aspects of social economy and rural sociology and finally the economics of the population nutrition. Papers are published in English.
Current issue
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Maximilian Kardung, Dušan Drabik
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(5):199-206 | DOI: 10.17221/195/2023-AGRICECON 
Prior studies have noted the importance of measurement tools that track the contributions of the circular bioeconomy and other developments towards sustainable development. In this study, we examined the EU-27 as a whole and found that its circular bioeconomy, measured by the 41 indicators we used, generally progressed over the period 2004–2021. Research and development personnel and Persons employed in circular economy sectors were ranked as the most progressing indicators over the studied period, together with Patent applications to the European Patent Office, which supports the idea that the circular bioeconomy uses novel technologies...
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Pan Liu, Bin Zhao, Haodong Tang, Jiamin Zhu
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(5):207-225 | DOI: 10.17221/221/2023-AGRICECON
To reduce agricultural pollutant emission (APE) and postharvest loss of grain (PHLG), the Chinese government enacted a series of subsidy policies; however, the profit-oriented supply chain members are seriously lacking or reducing APE and PHLG efforts. To address this issue, we considered as the research objective a grain supply chain consisting of a producer, a retailer and the government. We proposed the concept and functional expressions of supply chain members’ reduction efforts for APE and PHLG. We then proposed two main variables: the environmental innovation subsidy coefficient and the quantity attenuation factor of grain. According...
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Genjin Sun, Yanxiu Liu, Yurong Zhu
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(5):226-243 | DOI: 10.17221/386/2023-AGRICECON
Agricultural subsidy policy can improve the planting enthusiasm of rural households by increasing their income. It is of great significance to assess and summarise the effect of the soybean and cotton target price subsidy policy and to determine future policy direction. Using the national rural fixed-observation point socioeconomic survey data from 2009 to 2017, the study employed the difference-in-differences (DID) method to evaluate the impact of the target price policy (TPP) on rural household income in China. TPP had no significant impact on the total income of rural households. Specifically, TPP increased the farm income of rural households but...
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