Agricultural Economics, 2012 (vol. 58), issue 3
How does general economy and agriculture sector performance influence farm producer support in the OECD countries?
Tomasz Siudek, Aldona Zawojska
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2012, 58(3):101-118 | DOI: 10.17221/57/2011-AGRICECON 
This paper assesses the effects of the performance of the OECD national economies and agricultural sectors on the farm producer support for the years 1986 to 2009. The study is complementary to the large amount of microeconomic research that highlights the importance of support to agricultural industry. Data for the analysis are taken from the OECD Producer and Consumer Support Estimates database and the World Bank World Development Indicators 2010 database. The Producer Support Estimate - PSE (expressed in absolute value, in percent of the total farm revenues and per 1 hectare of agricultural land) was taken as the dependent variable, whereas the...
Food crisis, food production and poverty
Šárka Grófová, Karel Srnec
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2012, 58(3):119-126 | DOI: 10.17221/91/2011-AGRICECON
There is a sufficient global potential to produce the food required to feed the world population on the global level. Despite this, the number of hungry people worldwide was 925 million in 2010. Developing countries account for 98% of the world undernourished people and have a prevalence of undernourishment of 16%. Food security increasingly depends on non-agricultural factors like energy, trade and finance. The negative economic and social impacts of food, energy and the global economic and financial crises showed the vulnerability to poverty. High and rising food prices further undermined the food security and threatened the livelihoods of the most...
Globalisation - content, dynamics
Vladimír Jeníček
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2012, 58(3):127-134 | DOI: 10.17221/136/2011-AGRICECON
The notion of international relationships is supplemented by other phenomena during the last time. One of them is globalisation, called on by technological, social and cultural changes, which have shortened the economic distance among countries. The improvement of transport and communication technologies has decreased transport costs of goods, people and information. Traditional governmental policies limiting the cross-border transactions were liberalised or removed what in consequence brought about the growth of international trade and foreign direct investments (FDI). Globalisation changes the properties of the world economy and influences the core...
Study on Chinese farmer cooperative economy organization and agricultural specialization
Dan Yang, Zimin Liu
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2012, 58(3):135-146 | DOI: 10.17221/17/2011-AGRICECON
Under the background of the Chinese Household Contract Responsibility System (HCRS), farmers have to pay higher transaction costs and encounter a huge trading risk if they engage in agricultural production only through the market transaction. Since the special properties of agricultural production limit the formation and development of agricultural enterprises, farmer cooperative economy organizations with the main functional characteristics of transaction coordination begin to flourish. By building a new classical economics model, this paper demonstrates the theoretical assertion that the generation of a farmer cooperative economy organization is...