Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Editorial Department Title: Index of contents volume 69 Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: I-III Volume: 69 Issue: 12 Year: 2023 File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/artkey/age-202312-0001_index-of-contents-volume-69.php File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:69:y:2023:i:12:id:age-202312-0001 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Editorial Department Title: Index of authors volume 69 Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: IV-V Volume: 69 Issue: 12 Year: 2023 File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/artkey/age-202312-0002_index-of-authors-volume-69.php File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:69:y:2023:i:12:id:age-202312-0002 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Qi Li Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, Shandong, China Author-Name: Menghui Gao Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, Shandong, China Title: Trust evolution, institutional constraints, and land trusteeship decisions among Chinese farmers Abstract: Land trusteeship involves farmers entrusting the farming and managing of their land to trustees, who manage the land on their behalf in exchange for a commission fee. Land trusteeship has been an important approach to bridging the gap between smallholder farmers and modern agriculture in China. Because of the information asymmetry in land trusteeship, farmers have higher uncertainty and perceived risk, so social trust and institutional constraints are particularly important in promoting farmers' participation in trusteeship. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of trust evolution and institutional constraints on smallholder farmers' decision-making in green prevention and pest control trusteeship. Our research was conducted in Shandong, China, utilising factor analysis and binary regression. The results revealed that trusteeship decision-making combines trust governance and institutional governance, with significant roles played by institutional trust, institutional supervision, institutional regulation, and interpersonal trust. As part-time farming became more prevalent, the importance of institutional trust and institutional supervision increased, indicating a shift in trusteeship governance from social relations to institutional contracts and the maturation of land trusteeship models. In addition, we also tested the interaction effect of social trust and institutional constraints and the heterogeneity effect of different trusteeship contracts. To improve the land trust system, we must enhance farmers' institutional trust and leverage the active role of intermediary supervision organisations such as village collectives. Keywords: households, institutional regulation, institutional supervision, institutional trust, land trust, relational trust Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 485-497 Volume: 69 Issue: 12 Year: 2023 DOI: 10.17221/232/2023-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/232/2023-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-202312-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:69:y:2023:i:12:id:232-2023-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ivo Zdráhal Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Regional and Business Economy, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: Francois Stefanus Lategan Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Regional and Business Economy, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: Melissa van der Merwe Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of AgriSciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa Title: A constant market share analysis of the competitiveness of the Czech Republic's agrifood exports (2002-2020) to the European Union Abstract: We conducted a quantitative ex post analysis of the competitiveness of the Czech Republic's agrifood exports to other European Union (EU) Member States between 2002 and 2020, using the constant market share (CMS) methodology. The application of this methodology to Czech agrifood exports is novel, as it allows for analysing the export competitiveness variation and its components. Although the findings are consistent with those of previous studies in which the investigators used alternative methodological approaches, we make three contributions to the existing literature. Firstly, the Czech Republic experienced an overall increase in its competitiveness in agrifood exports between 2002 and 2020. Secondly, the high territorial specialisation of Czech agrifood exports to other EU Member States, combined with a general slowdown in the growth of EU markets, has had a significant effect on the growth dynamics of the country's agricultural exports. Thirdly, there is a problem with the specialisation profile of Czech agrifood exports in terms of commodity and territorial structure. The current composition does not allow the Czech Republic to reach its full potential for agrifood exports. These findings will help industrial, agricultural and trade policymakers to assess the nature of liberalisation and transformation of the Czech Republic's agricultural sectors, with a view to improving or designing structures and instruments for the promotion of agrifood exports. Keywords: agriculture, agrifood sectors, EU-28 market, international trade, liberalisation, trade specialisation Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 498-509 Volume: 69 Issue: 12 Year: 2023 DOI: 10.17221/248/2023-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/248/2023-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-202312-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:69:y:2023:i:12:id:248-2023-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Qianqian Mao Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hanghzou, China Author-Workplace-Name: Institute for Industrial System Modernization, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany Author-Name: Jens-Peter Loy Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany Author-Name: Thomas Glauben Author-Workplace-Name: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle, Germany Author-Name: Yanjun Ren Author-Workplace-Name: College of Economics and Management, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China Author-Workplace-Name: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle, Germany Title: Are futures markets functioning well for agricultural perishables? Evidence from China's apple futures market Abstract: Emerging economies often establish commodity futures markets to discover price signals, manage price risks and improve market integration, but establishing a futures market may not be feasible for agricultural perishables. In this study, we evaluated the function of the world's first fresh fruit futures contract for apples. Combining partial cointegration with state-space modelling, we derived time-varying price discovery metrics for the apple futures market. Our findings revealed a limited and time-varying dominance of price discovery by the futures market, while a substantial share of price discovery occurred in the spot market. Moreover, poor convergence of disaggregated spot prices to the futures price suggests that commercial traders in the apple supply chain tended to focus more on the spot market than on the futures market. Thus, emerging economies should be cautious about the new establishment of futures markets for agricultural perishables. Future research using more specific data on the spot market may provide a better insight on the limited function of the futures market. Keywords: market integration, partial cointegration, price discovery, price transmission Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 471-484 Volume: 69 Issue: 12 Year: 2023 DOI: 10.17221/278/2023-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/278/2023-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-202312-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:69:y:2023:i:12:id:278-2023-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sergei Kharin Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia Author-Name: Zuzana Kapustova Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia Author-Name: Ivan Lichner Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia Title: Price transmission between maize and poultry product markets in the Visegrád Group countries: What is more nonlinear, egg or chicken? Abstract: In this article, we present applied research in the field of price transmission modelling with the generalised additive model. In line with recent studies on nonlinear time series models for price transmission, we introduce a nonparametric technique of generalised additive modelling to provide evidence of nonlinear patterns in price linkages and compare the degree of nonlinearity in price transmission between feed maize and poultry product markets in the Visegrád Group countries. The results of our empirical approach contribute to knowledge about market competitiveness in the Visegrád Group countries and provide information to policymakers. Keywords: generalised additive model, nonlinearity, poultry markets, time series Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 510-522 Volume: 69 Issue: 12 Year: 2023 DOI: 10.17221/320/2023-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/320/2023-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-202312-0006.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:69:y:2023:i:12:id:320-2023-AGRICECON