Agricultural Economics, 2014 (vol. 60), issue 5
Possible complex approaches towards evaluating the quality of a destination in the context of tourism managementOriginal Paper
Kateřina RYGLOVÁ, Ida VAJČNEROVÁ
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(5):199-207 | DOI: 10.17221/117/2013-AGRICECON 
Thepaper deals with the issues concerning evaluating the quality of a destination in the context of tourism. A destination has to be looked on as a complex product of tourism consisting of products, services, natural resources, artificially created attractions and information being connected. The satisfaction of visitors to a destination is dependent on the quality of their overall experience that is created on the basis of the cooperation of all participants working in tourism in the given area - these are local inhabitants, service providers, public administration workers and destination management workers. The paper shows possible approaches towards...
Clusters in tourism, agriculture and food processing within the Visegrad GroupOriginal Paper
Josef ABRHÁM
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(5):208-218 | DOI: 10.17221/20/2014-AGRICECON
The contemporary regional economics sees clusters as geographically close groups of companies and other connecting organizations that work together while they also mutually compete. Despite the fact that the naturally born clusters exist for centuries and their formation is driven primarily by market factors, there has been prevailing in the recent decades a positive view of the controlled and driven development of clusters in developed countries. Organized clusters are being called the cluster initiative. In recent years, there was a relatively rapid development of cluster initiatives also in the territory of the Visegrad countries due to the national...
Rural income diversification patterns and their determinants in ChinaOriginal Paper
Jianmei ZHAO
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(5):219-231 | DOI: 10.17221/97/2013-AGRICECON
The article investigates the major rural income diversification patterns and their determinants in the context of China. Based on the data from a rural household survey, we first categorize the rural income diversification patterns according to the industry and the location in which the income is generated. Then we apply a Bayesian multinomial probit model to examine the determinants of various types of the rural income diversification. The major results demonstrate that a larger family size stimulates households to undertake various income diversification patterns, but its effects are discounted by an unproductive population structure within the household....
Can food availability influence economic growth - the case of African countriesOriginal Paper
Mary Oluwatoyin AGBOOLA, Mehmet BALCILAR
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(5):232-245 | DOI: 10.17221/95/2013-AGRICECON
There is a growing consensus that food security is vital to the general wellbeing of any economy, but a far less consensus on whether food security can spur economic growth in a country. Many economic growth strategies focus on specific interventions (trade openness index, tropical climatic variables, working age population share etc.), but many factors, such as food availability, female education and health outcomes, can potentially have a profound influence on economic growth. To explore this hypothesis more systematically, this paper employs a rich cross-country dataset of 124 countries to examine the impact of food security, using food availability...