Agricultural Economics, 2007 (vol. 53), issue 1
The development of the marriage rate, the divorce rate, the birth rate and the death rate
J. Dufek
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(1):1-8 | DOI: 10.17221/853-AGRICECON 
The article aims to analyze the development of the basic characteristics of the demographic dynamics in the CR in urban areas divided according to size in 1993-2004 and to express the changes in the development of the natural increase. Urban areas in the CR were divided into 3 groups according to their size (size-related groups): urban areas of up to 2 000 inhabitants - a country type, urban areas with 2 000 to 10 000 inhabitants - a transition type, urban areas with more than 10 000 inhabitants - towns. In 2004, there were 26% of inhabitants living in the country group, 20% in the transition group and 54% in towns. There was a decline in marriage...
Svatý Jan pod Skalou: Case study about the integration of small rural settlements
H. Hudečková, A. Ševčíková
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(1):9-20 | DOI: 10.17221/854-AGRICECON
Like other small rural settlements, Svatý Jan pod Skalou is dealing with financial and personnel problems within the exertion of public administration. That is why there is necessary to think about the potential integration strategies in a way, which would enable the commune to keep advantages of its own strengths and to solve disadvantages that hinder its future development. Methodical procedures of this paper are compounded of two parts - analytical situation study and formulation of preliminary options of integration strategies of the municipality, and their preliminary evaluation. Those parts also include a proposal of the evaluation tool of the...
Citizens local political participation in the Czech Republic: rural-urban comparison
J. Cmejrek
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(1):21-29 | DOI: 10.17221/856-AGRICECON
The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 in the former Czechoslovakia opened the way to the renewal of the democratic political system. One of the most visible aspects of the Czech political development consisted in the renewal of the essential functions of elections and political parties. On the local level, however, the political process - as well as in other post-communist countries - continued to be for a long time influenced by the remains of the former centralized system wherein the local administration used to be subjected to the central state power. Municipal elections took hold in these countries, however, the local government remained in the...
Work motivation and the municipality size
L. Kolman, P. Michálek, H. Chamoutová, K. Chamoutová, L. Müllerová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(1):30-35 | DOI: 10.17221/845-AGRICECON
The article shows the results of the grant project of Czech Science Foundation 406/03/0896, which focused on the survey of work motivation and quality of working life issues in the Czech country. The results concern an analysis of variation and a range of coefficients and show statistically significant differences in motivational coefficients in sets that differ in the respondents size of residence. The main aim of the survey was to find out if it is possible to identify the differences in work motivation between people from large cities and people from small municipalities, namely between inhabitants of the Prague metropolitan area and smaller municipalities...
Some comparisons across Central and East European countries in terms the rural population living standard
M. Vavrejnova, S. Lüpsik
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(1):36-44 | DOI: 10.17221/846-AGRICECON
In this paper, we describe and compare the employment, wages and prices in the agricultural and other rural sectors in Central and East European countries. Together, we point out the lack of statistical information limiting the possibilities of the comparison. We comment the marked decrease in both production and employment in these sectors during the transition period. Together with low wages and the unfavourable development of the relation between the purchase and producer prices, this situation causes the retardation in the growth of the living standard of the rural population, in comparison with other sectors of the national economy. Therefore,...
Bio cash-cow? Context and content of Czech organic farming
L. Zagata
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(1):45-53 | DOI: 10.17221/993-AGRICECON
This work presents results of a qualitative empirical study on practices of farmers participating in the Czech system of organic agriculture (ecological agriculture). Growth of this sector has been seen almost solely in positive terms, without questioning its content. However, Czech organic agriculture does not stem from the organic movement as is the case in Western Europe and therefore it is necessary to ask what it draws on and to discover, with regard to its nature, whether it can meet the expectations stated in official policies. This paper briefly describes the development of organic farming in other countries and the current problem of its conventionalization....