Agricultural Economics, 2024 (vol. 70), issue 5
The European Union’s circular bioeconomy: What do the indicators tell us?Original Paper
Maximilian Kardung, Du¹an Drabik
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(5):199-206 | DOI: 10.17221/195/2023-AGRICECON 
Prior studies have noted the importance of measurement tools that track the contributions of the circular bioeconomy and other developments towards sustainable development. In this study, we examined the EU-27 as a whole and found that its circular bioeconomy, measured by the 41 indicators we used, generally progressed over the period 2004–2021. Research and development personnel and Persons employed in circular economy sectors were ranked as the most progressing indicators over the studied period, together with Patent applications to the European Patent Office, which supports the idea that the circular bioeconomy uses novel technologies...
Subsidy policies for the grain supply chain considering postharvest loss of grain and agricultural pollutant emission in ChinaOriginal Paper
Pan Liu, Bin Zhao, Haodong Tang, Jiamin Zhu
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(5):207-225 | DOI: 10.17221/221/2023-AGRICECON
To reduce agricultural pollutant emission (APE) and postharvest loss of grain (PHLG), the Chinese government enacted a series of subsidy policies; however, the profit-oriented supply chain members are seriously lacking or reducing APE and PHLG efforts. To address this issue, we considered as the research objective a grain supply chain consisting of a producer, a retailer and the government. We proposed the concept and functional expressions of supply chain members’ reduction efforts for APE and PHLG. We then proposed two main variables: the environmental innovation subsidy coefficient and the quantity attenuation factor of grain. According...
Target price policy and rural household income: Evidence from ChinaOriginal Paper
Genjin Sun, Yanxiu Liu, Yurong Zhu
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(5):226-243 | DOI: 10.17221/386/2023-AGRICECON
Agricultural subsidy policy can improve the planting enthusiasm of rural households by increasing their income. It is of great significance to assess and summarise the effect of the soybean and cotton target price subsidy policy and to determine future policy direction. Using the national rural fixed-observation point socioeconomic survey data from 2009 to 2017, the study employed the difference-in-differences (DID) method to evaluate the impact of the target price policy (TPP) on rural household income in China. TPP had no significant impact on the total income of rural households. Specifically, TPP increased the farm income of rural households but...
Digital economy and rural household resilience: Evidence from ChinaOriginal Paper
Jianghong Xu, Chenguang Wang, Xukang Yin, Weixin Wang
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(5):244-263 | DOI: 10.17221/317/2023-AGRICECON
Enhancing the resilience of rural households against the impacts of risks and moulding their enduring strength despite modest scale holds paramount contemporary significance for a multitude of developing nations, including China. This study uses the microdata of the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), systematically measures the rural household resilience index for the first time, analyses the impact of the digital economy on the resilience of rural households, and dissects the group differences and mechanism of action. We found that from 2012 to 2018, the Chinese rural household resilience index had significant differences in time and...