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):

2025: 1.6
Q2 – Economics; Q3 – 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

Do farmers normalise land tenure insecurity? Evidence from a choice experiment in UzbekistanOriginal Paper

Davron Niyazmetov, Ilkhom Soliev, Insa Theesfeld

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(6):341-357 | DOI: 10.17221/62/2025-AGRICECON  

Land reforms can create tenure insecurity for farmers, a critical issue in developing countries with a dominant role of the state in agriculture. Our study focuses on Uzbekistan, characterised by a state-led transition from a more collective and socialist to a more individualistic and market-based approach to land allocation and management. To understand how farmers normalise tenure insecurity under land reallocation in Uzbekistan, we examine farmers' perceptions of tenure security under ongoing risks to their land tenure. We conducted a farm survey (n = 153), employing a novel approach to explore farmers' perceptions of tenure security and...

Assessing the links between climate change resiliency and food security in northwestern region of BangladeshOriginal Paper

Abhi Sarker, Salman Ibn Yasin, Bikash Chandra Ghosh, Gershom Endelani Mwalupaso, Asma Akter, Emmanuel Kiprop, Liu Zhenzhen, Farjana Eyasmin, Geng Xianhui

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(6):358-380 | DOI: 10.17221/218/2025-AGRICECON  

Climate change is intensifying threats to food security across the developing countries, pushing vulnerable nations like Bangladesh towards a breaking point – where resilience is no longer an option but a survival imperative. Despite growing concerns, however limited empirical research exists on how climate resilience influences food security across rural and urban farming households. This study examines climate resilience in northwestern Bangladesh and its impact on farming households' food security. Using multistage random sampling, 498 households across 16 villages in extreme climate zones were surveyed. A climate resilience index (CRI) was...

The impact and mechanisms of animal epidemics on pork prices and the mechanisms involved: Evidence from a multi-period DID modelOriginal Paper

Zhizheng Wen, Yi Li

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(6):381-393 | DOI: 10.17221/137/2025-AGRICECON  

This study employs the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak as a quasi-natural experiment to assess its impact on pork prices and the underlying mechanisms. Utilising panel data from 30 Chinese provinces from January 2017 to December 2022, we apply a difference-in-differences (DID) approach combined with a moderating effect model. Furthermore, through DID quantile regression models, we delve into the impact of the epidemic on price volatility under varying initial pork price growth rates and regional institutional conditions. The findings reveal that the outbreak triggered a significant increase in the pork price, which averaged approximately 6%. During...

The opinions of first adopters in the introduction of Bt maize in Spain: A success storyOriginal Paper

Maria Mercè Clop-Gallart, Esther Estruch-Bosch, María Isabel Juárez, Montserrat Viladrich-Grau

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2026, 72(6):394-405 | DOI: 10.17221/482/2024-AGRICECON  

Spain is one of the few EU countries that adopted genetically modified maize as a crop (1998) and has continued to harvest it ever since. This article aims to contribute to the history of the adoption of transgenic maize in the EU, where the Mediterranean (Sesamia nonagrioides) and European (Ostrinia nubilalis) corn borers are two of the most destructive pests. Our aim is to identify Spanish farmers' motivations and opinions on adopting this technology. Our model is a binary logistic regression that estimates the probability of adopting Bt maize. Our results reveal that the odds of adopting Bt are at least 44.0 times greater if the farm...