Agricultural Economics, 2026 (vol. 72), issue 3
How do green finance, digital technology, trade openness, and climate change interact to shape food production in sub-Saharan Africa?Original Paper
Abdul Salami Bah, Yongqiang Wang, Yuchun Zhu, Saffa Mohamed Massaquoi, Nomore Nkhoma
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(3):135-155 | DOI: 10.17221/227/2025-AGRICECON 
The promotion of sustainable food productivity through innovative technologies remains a central priority in economic development, attracting increasing attention from scholars, policymakers, and industry stakeholders. With the continuing rise in global food demand, resource-efficient solutions are essential to ensuring long-term agricultural growth and stability in food production. This study examines the impact of green finance, agricultural innovation, digital technology, trade openness, and climate change on food production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using the method of moments quantile regression (MMQR) and the generalised method of moments...
Subsidies and farming: A microempirical analysis of financial allocation to promote agricultural productionOriginal Paper
Congxian He, Lulu Yu, Huwei Wen
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(3):156-170 | DOI: 10.17221/187/2025-AGRICECON
Agriculture's stable development is vital to the national economy, and its vulnerability justifies fiscal support. On the basis of data from the China Family Panel Studies from 2012 to 2022, this study examines how fiscal allocation affects agricultural production, particularly rural households' grain-growing enthusiasm and their productive income. Results show that public expenditure significantly boosts agricultural production, supported by ordered probit and ordinary least squares fixed effect models and confirmed in robustness tests. Mechanistic tests indicate that agricultural public expenditure promotes agricultural production by improving agricultural...
What drives post-acquisition farm growth? Empirical evidence from UkraineOriginal Paper
Igor Ostapchuk, Taras Gagalyuk
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(3):171-189 | DOI: 10.17221/385/2024-AGRICECON
This study contributes to the limited body of research on mergers and acquisitions in primary agriculture by examining how large corporate agroholdings achieve profitable post-acquisition growth for the farms they acquire. Using System GMM estimation, we analyse farm-level data from 648 farms acquired by agroholdings in Ukraine between 2005 and 2016. Our findings show that agroholdings facilitate post-acquisition growth and performance improvements by employing several integration strategies. Specifically, they leverage horizontally integrated structures to: (i) consolidate land resources of acquired farms to achieve scale economies; (ii) reallocate...
Evaluation of the environmental commitment of all large and medium-sized Spanish wineries based on objective information from their websitesCase Study
Asunción Agulló-Torres, Francisco-José Del Campo-Gomis, David-Bernardo López-Lluch, Irene Arias-Navarro
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(3):190-206 | DOI: 10.17221/41/2025-AGRICECON
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...