Agricultural Economics, 2012 (vol. 58), issue 10
Flattening and redistribution of the CAP direct payments for the EU27 regions
Maja KOŽAR, Markus KEMPEN, Wolfgang BRITZ, Emil ERJAVEC
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2012, 58(10):443-453 | DOI: 10.17221/144/2011-AGRICECON 
The paper presents key results regarding a possible reform of the Common Agricultural Policy direct payments, based on a scenario analysis by the CAPRI (Common Agricultural Policy Regionalized Impact) modelling system. Combining aggregate programming models at the NUTS 2 level with a global spatial multi-commodity model, it enables depicting the impacts of different policy and economic scenarios from regional to the global scale. The paper discusses simulated impacts on farm income and agricultural markets from implementing the European flat rate hectare payment corrected for the purchasing power disparities across the Member States while reducing...
Regional environmental governance: the NAFTA case
Eva CIHELKOVÁ
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2012, 58(10):454-466 | DOI: 10.17221/76/2012-AGRICECON
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 elaborated the idea of sustainable development. A comprehensive document called the Agenda 21 provided an explanation how to achieve a sustainable economic development. Along the tools presented in the document, there emerged in practice a new regionalism which is based on the preferential trade agreements. Currently, regional agreements are of a more complex nature, so that they may include environmental cooperation, too. The aim of this paper is to illustrate, on the case of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a possible approach of regional agreements...
An analysis of the critical factors that affect the competitive advantages and developmental strategies of leisure farms in Taiwan
Meng-Shiunn LEE
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2012, 58(10):467-481 | DOI: 10.17221/128/2011-AGRICECON
Leisure farms in Taiwan are currently undergoing a fast development. The utilization of distinctive strategies to create successful operational competitiveness is becoming the guiding policy of enterprises for their future development. This study adopts the value chain perspective to develop criteria for different dimensions and to develop a strategic hierarchical structure by using the fuzzy Delphi method. Through the FANP (Fuzzy Analytic Network Process) method, this study discovers the critical factors influencing the competitive advantages of leisure farms in Taiwan: (1) the uniqueness of the landscape and ecological resources, (2) the richness...
The farm size in the less-favoured areas and the economy of support spending on public goods production in the case of the Czech Republic
Marie ŠTOLBOVÁ, Michala MÍČOVÁ
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2012, 58(10):482-496 | DOI: 10.17221/177/2011-AGRICECON
Opportunities for savings in both human labour and technical equipment were tested on the case of large farms situated in the less-favoured areas (LFA). Large LFA farms were found to be undoubtedly more efficient than the small ones, as well as the diversification of activities (to non-agricultural) was much wider at the large farms in the Czech Republic (CR). The targeting of the objectives of the LFA measure was analysed on the cases of the selected types of the small and large farms and also the amounts of support, devoted to reach these objectives. The paper further analyses economic results of the small and large farms in the LFA within the CR,...