Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(3):190-206 | DOI: 10.17221/41/2025-AGRICECON

Evaluation of the environmental commitment of all large and medium-sized Spanish wineries based on objective information from their websitesCase Study

Asunción Agulló-Torres ORCID..., Francisco-José Del Campo-Gomis ORCID..., David-Bernardo López-Lluch ORCID..., Irene Arias-Navarro ORCID...
Department of Agro-Environmental Economics, Agro-Food and Agro-Environmental Research and Innovation Institute (CIAGRO), Miguel Hernández University, Elche, Spain

In the contemporary era, organisations have embraced the internet as a platform through which they disseminate information about their economic activities and their corporate social responsibility, including their environmental responsibility. Consequently, the extent to which an organisation's actions are visible on its website can be taken as an indicator of its commitment to environmental issues. The present article proposes a model for evaluating the environmental commitment of agri-food companies through the visibility of objective information on their environmental actions on their websites. The information is presented in tabular form, consisting of 33 items, and the combination of these with a predetermined weight gives an index called the Environmental Commitment Web Index (ECWI). The model was applied to all large and medium-sized Spanish wineries in 2018 and 2024. The findings indicate an improvement in the environmental commitment of these wineries, as reflected by the doubling of the ECWI during this period from 9.8 points in 2018 to 20.2 points in 2024. Nonetheless, the overwhelming majority of these wineries were regarded as exhibiting a 'very poor' environmental commitment: 94.2% in 2018 and 81.4% in 2024. It is concluded that all large and medium-sized Spanish wineries should undertake sustained endeavours to disseminate environmental initiatives on their websites.

Keywords: agri-food companies; corporate social responsibility (CSR); online transparency; sustainability reporting; environmental initiatives disclosure; agri-food sector sustainability

Received: January 27, 2025; Revised: November 3, 2025; Accepted: November 4, 2025; Prepublished online: March 23, 2026; Published: March 31, 2026  Show citation

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Agulló-Torres A, Del Campo-Gomis F, López-Lluch D, Arias-Navarro I. Evaluation of the environmental commitment of all large and medium-sized Spanish wineries based on objective information from their websites. Agricultural Economics. 2026;72(3):190-206. doi: 10.17221/41/2025-AGRICECON.
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