Agricultural Economics, 2013 (vol. 59), issue 10
Czech and Slovak agricultural foreign trade - two decades after the dissolutionOriginal Paper
Peter BIELIK, Luboš SMUTKA, Miroslav SVATOŠ, Daniela HUPKOVÁ
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2013, 59(10):441-453 | DOI: 10.17221/26/2013-AGRICECON 
Agrarian trade of the Czech Republic and Slovakia has undergone very significant changes in the period since the break-up of Czechoslovakia up to the present, which have influenced its commodity and territorial structure. The process of dividing the state, building a new business structure and the EU accession influenced the current form of Czech and Slovak agricultural trade and also particularly the competitiveness of Czech and Slovak agricultural and foodstuff products in relation to the EU market and also in relation to the world market. The process of transformation of agricultural production and trade in both countries has also affected their...
What is local and for what foods does it matter?Original Paper
Wuyang HU, Ping QING, Marvin BATTE, Tim WOODS, Stam ERNST
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2013, 59(10):454-466 | DOI: 10.17221/29/2013-AGRICECON
This study answers two important questions related to local food that have not been sufficiently addressed before: what is the greatest distance food can travel and still be accepted by consumers as local, and is "local" an equally important product attribute across food categories. Using survey data from two states in the USA, this research found that consumers' accepted food travel distance may be much shorter than what is generally believed. In addition, there exists a great variation in the importance consumers attach to "being local" for different food categories and these differences can be related to variations in consumer demographics.
Migration decisions of parents and the nutrition intakes of children left at home in rural ChinaOriginal Paper
Manxiu NING, Hung-Hao CHANG
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2013, 59(10):467-477 | DOI: 10.17221/19/2013-AGRICECON
Using an individual-level dataset drawn from the China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2009, this paper investigated whether the parental labour migration is associated with deficiencies in the nutrition intakes of children left at home in the rural area. The results show that the parental migration increases the probability of deficiency in the energy and protein intake of children left at home. Although several studies have pointed out that the parental remittances can increase the economic well-being of their children at home, this study points to an undesired cost of the parental migration. Governments should establish effective...
Why farm households have differences in corruption experiences? Evidences from BangladeshOriginal Paper
Asif Reza ANIK, Siegfried BAUER, Mohammad Jahangir ALAM
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2013, 59(10):478-488 | DOI: 10.17221/41/2013-AGRICECON
The article explores the household-level determinants of corruption and its different forms in Bangladesh. It also identifies the micro-level factors for which households pay different amount of bribe. To attain these objectives, experiences of 210 Bangladeshi farm households belonging to six different districts of the country are analyzed. The econometric analyses show that the households with higher expenditure are more likely to face corruption and bribery, and also pay a higher amount of bribe. However, these households are less likely to face the negligence of duty and nepotism or favouritism. Such differences in the impact of the expenditure...