Agricultural Economics, 2018 (vol. 64), issue 9
China's trade competitiveness in the area of agricultural products after the implementation of the World Trade Organization commitmentsOriginal Paper
Lenka FOJTÍKOVÁ
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2018, 64(9):379-388 | DOI: 10.17221/163/2017-AGRICECON 
The paper provides evidence on the implementation of China's trade commitments into its institutional and legal environment, which influenced its agricultural trade. The contribution to the trade balance index and the revealed comparative advantage index are used for the identification of changes in China's export competitiveness in agricultural products between 2001 and 2015. The World Trade Organization (WTO) trade liberalisation, followed by changes in the structure of economy, contributed to China building a trade deficit in the area of the agricultural products and losing competitiveness in some products. China gradually liberalised its agricultural...
Financial sustainability of a public-private partnership for an agricultural development project in Sub-Saharan AfricaOriginal Paper
Donato MOREA, Marino BALZARINI
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2018, 64(9):389-398 | DOI: 10.17221/161/2017-AGRICECON
Land, water, sun, infrastructure, capital and know-how are needed for any agricultural development. Sub-Saharan Africa has immense natural resources, though often not immediately available altogether in the same place, but is generally short of the other inputs. That is why a public-private partnership can be an effective approach to deal the projects with modern agricultural development: public partner provides land, most of the infrastructure and finance; private partners provide the intensive farming practice, processing know-how and part of the equity. Financial analysis of lower and higher capital demanding scenarios and testing of the impact...
Changes in the Czech agrarian foreign trade competitiveness - different groups of partners' specificsOriginal Paper
Lubos SMUTKA, Mansoor MAITAH, Miroslav SVATOS
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2018, 64(9):399-411 | DOI: 10.17221/399/2016-AGRICECON
The territorial and commodity structure of the Czech agrarian foreign trade underwent significant changes over the last fifteen years. These changes affected not only the structure, but also the value, volume, unit prices and competitiveness. The presented paper provides the basic overview of the individual significant changes. The main goal of the paper is to specify changes in the area of the Czech agrarian foreign trade competitiveness. This competitiveness is analysed not only in relation to global markets, but it is also analysed in relation to different groups of countries. Differences in competiveness are analysed in relation to the European...
Social inclusion in the context of Czech rural development policyOriginal Paper
Eva KUCEROVA
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2018, 64(9):412-422 | DOI: 10.17221/160/2016-AGRICECON
The paper addresses social inclusion. It aims to investigate how social inclusion was conceptualized in the main Czech policy documents related to the EU. The text argues that one of the tools of social inclusion - social economy represented by social entrepreneurship and social farming - is a sort of innovative practice. The findings suggest that the understanding of social inclusion evolves within policy documents towards highlighting social economy through matching its theoretical concept with political measures. However, social economy is still not considered by the documents as an innovative approach. If analysing projects funded under Czech Rural...