Agricultural Economics, 2022 (vol. 68), issue 9
Adopting sustainable water management practices in agriculture based on stakeholder preferencesOriginal Paper
Juan Francisco Velasco-Muñoz, José Ángel Aznar-Sánchez, Belén López-Felices, Gabriella Balacco
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2022, 68(9):317-326 | DOI: 10.17221/203/2022-AGRICECON 
Technology has made it possible to achieve the very efficient use of water resources in agriculture. However, there are a set of practices that could increase both the availability and quality of the water resources, but which are not yet widely used. In view of the scarcity situation mainly produced by the consequences of climate change, the objective of this work is to analyse the adoption of sustainable irrigation management practices in agriculture. To this end, the aim is to identify and evaluate the variables involved in adopting sustainable practices in agriculture through the use of different qualitative research tools in successive phases...
Measuring the economic sustainability of Italian farms using FADN dataOriginal Paper
Adele Coppola, Mario Amato, Domenico Vistocco, Fabio Verneau
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2022, 68(9):327-337 | DOI: 10.17221/169/2022-AGRICECON
In recent literature, the issue of sustainability and its measure has been addressed with different approaches that depend on the multidimensional nature of the concept and the specific sector and context to which it applies. The present work focuses on the economic sustainability component and suggests an operative measure at the farm level. The measure of economic sustainability has been applied to Italian family farms using Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). Based on this data, an efficiency indicator (EI) and two income indicators [a factor profitability indicator (FPI) and a comparable income indicator (CII)] expressing...
Does intra-industry specialisation enhance or limit comparative advantage? Evidence from the world citrus fruit tradeOriginal Paper
Karolina Pawlak, Joanna Lukasiewicz
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2022, 68(9):338-347 | DOI: 10.17221/163/2022-AGRICECON
In this paper, we aim to identify the intensity and nature of intra-industry specialisation in the global trade in citrus fruits. We used data from the United Nations Comtrade database. We performed both static and dynamic assessments of the intensity of intra-industry trade (IIT) by using the traditional Grubel-Lloyd index and the marginal IIT (MIIT) index, respectively. We also separated IIT into horizontal and vertical trade, and we verified the relationship between changes in the intra-industry pattern of trade and the level of comparative advantage gained by the largest producers and exporters of citrus fruits in the world. We used the...
The volatility connectedness among fertilisers and agricultural crop prices: Evidence from selected main agricultural productsOriginal Paper
Harun Uçak, Yakup Ari, Esin Yelgen
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2022, 68(9):348-360 | DOI: 10.17221/147/2022-AGRICECON
The price of fertiliser, which is one of the most important inputs of agricultural production, has increased significantly in recent years. In this study, we empirically analysed the effect of volatility in fertiliser prices on selected agricultural products by using the Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness approach, which is based on time-varying parameter (TVP) vector auto-regression (VAR). The findings showed that the spread of volatility and the interconnectedness between these variables increased in times of crisis and that the risk pass-through was due to fertiliser prices. However, empirical results showed that the price volatility of phosphate rock...