Agricultural Economics, 2025 (vol. 71), issue 5
The path to smart farming: Profiling farmers' adoption of technologies in TürkiyeOriginal Paper
Huseyin Tayyar Guldal, Hasan Sanli, Metin Turker
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2025, 71(5):229-241 | DOI: 10.17221/401/2023-AGRICECON 
This study investigates the characteristics associated with the adoption of smart farming technologies in Turkish agriculture. By surveying 325 farmers across six regions in Türkiye, the research identifies key attributes influencing adoption patterns. Four distinct profiles emerge: technology users, non-users, young educated female farmers, and traditionalists. Exploratory findings from Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) indicate that attributes such as agricultural insurance, credit utilisation, knowledge of smart farming systems, and tractor ownership are commonly observed among technology users. Ordinal logistic regression further quantifies...
Assessing the impact of China's National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone policy on agricultural carbon emissionsOriginal Paper
Yuqian Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Chenchen Su, Jiahong Guo, Chen Xu
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2025, 71(5):242-253 | DOI: 10.17221/205/2024-AGRICECON
The global focus on the relationship between digitisation and agricultural carbon emissions remains high. However, research on the systemic ramifications of comprehensive digital policy implementation remains limited. Against the backdrop of China's pursuit of carbon neutrality and carbon emission peaking targets, we employed the difference-in-differences method to investigate the impact of applying a digital policy on agricultural carbon emissions. Our findings indicated that the implementation of the National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone policy could effectively mitigate agricultural carbon emissions, resulting in a sustained positive...
Bridging credit gaps for sustainable agriculture: The role of rural savings and credit cooperatives among smallholder farmersOriginal Paper
Gershom Endelani Mwalupaso, Shangao Wang, Xianhui Geng, Shadrack Kipkogei
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2025, 71(5):254-272 | DOI: 10.17221/436/2024-AGRICECON
Despite the recognised benefits of climate smart agriculture (CSA) in enhancing farmers' adaptive capacity to climate risks, adoption rates remain low in Sub-Saharan Africa. This disparity can be attributed, in part, to the significant challenges smallholder farmers face in accessing credit from the formal financial sector. In response, Rural Saving and Credit Cooperatives (RUSACCOs) have emerged as crucial sources of funding for both household expenses and agricultural activities. However, despite their increasing importance in improving financial inclusion, little is known about whether participation in RUSACCOs can help alleviate existing credit...
Synergic strategies in reinforcing the pluralistic paradigm, inclusion and diversity as a catalyst for social sustainability focusing on agribusinessesOriginal Paper
Hana Urbancová, Pavla Vrabcová, Peter Madzík, Aleš Kocourek
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2025, 71(5):273-284 | DOI: 10.17221/371/2024-AGRICECON
Addressing social sustainability, gender dynamics, strengthening educational diversity and ensuring inclusive partnership structures are all key components of promoting inclusion, not only in the agricultural sector. Diversity management is a human resource trend based on respect for inclusive culture, gender and ethnic diversity, multifaceted equality or the use of virtual teams under the right working conditions, but when not applied correctly it may produce undesired effects in agribusinesses as well as in other economics sectors. This paper aims to identify effective approaches to setting working conditions used by organisations to promote inclusion,...