Agricultural Economics, 2020 (vol. 66), issue 10
Farm outcomes based on cluster analysis of compound farm evaluationOriginal Paper
Zuzana Hloušková, Michaela Lekešová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2020, 66(10):435-443 | DOI: 10.17221/273/2020-AGRICECON 
The purpose of this paper is to examine the internal structure of Czech agricultural holdings based on a multicriteria evaluation of the five dimensions representing the main functions of agriculture including production, economicfactors, financial stability, environmental, and social and other factors. A cluster analysis was performed to identify two clusters of farms. The first cluster consists of smaller holdings that specialize in livestock production and achieve poorer financial results compared to the second cluster, which includes...
The impact of agriculture and renewable energy on climate change in Central and East European CountriesOriginal Paper
Nicoleta Mihaela Florea, Roxana Maria Bădîrcea, Ramona Costina Pîrvu, Alina Georgiana Manta, Marius Dalian Doran, Elena Jianu
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2020, 66(10):444-457 | DOI: 10.17221/250/2020-AGRICECON
According to the objectives of the European Union concerning the climate changes, Member States should take all the necessary measures in order to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. The aim of this study is to identify the causality relations between greenhouse gases emissions, added value from agriculture, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth based on a panel consisting of 11 states from the Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) in the period between 2000 and 2017. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method was used to estimate the long-term relationships among the variables. Also a Granger causality test based on the ARDL - Error...
Modelling the impact of oil price fluctuations on food price in high and low-income oil exporting countriesOriginal Paper
Ding Chen, Umar Muhammad Gummi, Shan-Bing Lu, Asiya Mu'azu
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2020, 66(10):458-468 | DOI: 10.17221/197/2020-AGRICECON
Oil exporting economies were the most hit by the recent oil price shock that spills on the food market in an increasingly volatile macroeconomic environment. This paper examines and compares sub-samples [before crisis (2000 Q1-2013 Q1) and during crisis (2013 Q2-2019 Q4)] as to the impact of oil price on food prices in high- and low-income oil-exporting countries. We found an inverse relationship between oil and food prices in the long run based on full samples and sub-samples in high-income countries. The story is different during the crisis period: in low-income countries and all the countries combined, oil and food prices co-move in the long run...
Examination of first generation biofuel production in some selected biofuel producing countries in Europe: A case studyOriginal Paper
Anett Lászlok, Katalin Takács-György, István Takács
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2020, 66(10):469-476 | DOI: 10.17221/237/2020-AGRICECON
The EU is committed to increasing the use of renewable energy sources. In the sector of transportation, the share of renewable energy is to reach 10% by 2020 and 14% by 2030, respectively, in the EU. According to the latest forecasts, the production of the first-generation biofuels made from food raw materials is showing a declining tendency in the main European producing countries. Therefore, the objective of our research is to forecast the production of some selected biofuel producing countries within the EU as well as the traditional biofuel production in Hungary. The question of land use changes due to the new regulations is crucial. Our examinations...