Agricultural Economics, 2014 (vol. 60), issue 8
Measures ensuring the food quality on retail markets: experimental perspectiveOriginal Paper
Martin POLÍVKA, David MARTINČÍK
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(8):343-352 | DOI: 10.17221/179/2013-AGRICECON 
Due to the ongoing problems with the quality of foods in European markets, the public authorities try to take some measures, which would reduce the amount of substandard food products offered to consumers in retailing. Three such measures - the higher frequency of quality checks conducted by public authorities, the imposition of some import barriers on the foodstuffs from countries known for their frequent breaches of quality standards in the food industry and the establishment of an information platform serving for the public pillorying of poor quality food - are studied in this paper. The experimental policy analysis was used as the research method....
Factors affecting consumer attitudes towards food products with sustainable attributesOriginal Paper
Azzurra ANNUNZIATA, Debora SCARPATO
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(8):353-363 | DOI: 10.17221/156/2013-AGRICECON
Sustainable food consumption is a core policy objective of the new millennium in the national and international agenda, as a consequence, the attention towards sustainable consumption has significantly increased in the last decade. However, the consumer attitudes and buying behaviours of sustainable food are still not completely understood. In this context, this paper aims to investigate the factors affecting consumers' attitudes towards food products with sustainable attributes. The first part of the work presents an overview of the theoretical concepts of sustainable consumption. Subsequently, the results of an empirical analysis with a sample of...
Local action groups and the LEADER co-financing of rural development projects in SloveniaOriginal Paper
Alenka VOLK, Štefan BOJNEC
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(8):364-375 | DOI: 10.17221/180/2013-AGRICECON
The influence of a formal and informal system of the Local Action Group (LAG) board's performance on the perception of its members is analysed in association with the suitability of the rural development projects for the LEADER funds co-financing. The unique in-depth survey data was obtained from the surveys with the 103 LAG board's members using the written questionnaire designed for the inquiry and from the existing data analysis on projects which were co-financed by the LEADER funds in Slovenia in the years 2008 and 2009. The informal system of performance of the LAG board members was found to influence significantly its members' perception on the...
Factors influencing employment for tertiary education graduates at the selected universitiesOriginal Paper
Hana STOJANOVÁ, Pavel TOMŠÍK
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2014, 60(8):376-387 | DOI: 10.17221/136/2013-AGRICECON
The graduates of tertiary education level are one of the risk groups in the economically active age, who have a significant problem to find a job in the labour market. The research has been focused on defining the key factors influencing the creation of competitive advantages of the tertiary education graduates entering labour market as well as to identify the effectiveness of these factors in the process of entering the tertiary education graduates in the labour market. The methods of analysis were used in the processing of a survey of graduates from three universities of the Czech Republic, namely: the Masaryk University Czech Republic, the Mendel...