Change in Licence Policy for CAAS Journals

We would like to inform you that the journals published by the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) will change their licence policy. All articles submitted to CAAS journals from 2026 will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).

The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0) allows broad reuse, distribution, and adaptation of published articles, provided that appropriate credit to the original authors is given.

Articles submitted by 2025 are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license.


Impact factor (WoS):

2024: 1.8
Q2 – Economics; Q2 – Agricultural Economics & Policy
5-Year Impact Factor: 1.9

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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. Jaroslav Pražan, Ph.D., prof. Ing. Jindřich Špička, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Pavla Vrabcová, Ph.D.
  • Executive Editor: Ing. Zdeňka Naglová, Ph.D.
  • Technical Editor: MgA. Hana Slaninová
  • The journal is published monthly

Journal leaflet Agricultural Economics - Call for Papers

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

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...