Journal of Agricultural Economics

JAE's Impact Factor!
JAE is now ranked 3rd out of 14 journals in the Agricultural Economics & Policy category, with an Impact Factor of 1.551! (ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2011: 3/14 (Agricultural Economics & Policy); 59/320 (Economics))

The Agricultural Economics Society Prize Essay Competition
The Society encourages the submission of essays – which carries a £1,000 prize awarded at the annual conference – by 30 November. For more information, please click here.

The Joint winners of the 2012 Competition are:
Giacomo Zanello for his essay entitled Mobile Phones and Radios: Effects on Transactions Costs and Market Participation for Households in Northern Ghana
and
Luca A. Panzone for his essay entitled Alcohol Tax, Price–Quality Proxy and Discounting: A Reason Why Alcohol Taxes May Rebound

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Top 3 most read articles in 2012:

The Determinants of Rural Livelihood Diversification in Developing Countries
Ellis, F.

How to Understand High Food Prices
Gilbert, C.

Introduction to the Special Feature: Evaluating the Impact of Agricultural Projects in Developing Countries
Winters, P. et al.

Top 3 articles contributing to the JAE 2011 Impact Factor:

How to Understand High Food Prices
Gilbert, C.

Modelling Farmers Participation in an Agri-environmental Scheme using Panel Data: An Application to the Rural Environment Protection Scheme in Ireland
Hynes, S. et al.

Impacts of Decoupled Agricultural Support on Farm Structure, Biodiversity and Landscape Mosaic: Some EU Results
Brady, M. et al.

*The above 6 papers are freely available online until 31 December 2013.

Volume 64, Issue 1 (February 2013) of Journal of Agricultural Economics (JAE) includes a BRIC Special Feature. This Special Feature, which is freely available online, "...considers economic and social development in BRICs, their integration in world agricultural trade as well as environmental concerns." To read more, simply click here.

The JAE is published by Wiley on behalf of the Agricultural Economics Society (AES). The Society was founded in 1926. It is a learned society and a company limited by guarantee. It promotes the study and teaching of all disciplines relevant to the agricultural, food and related industries, and to rural society and environment. Find out more here.