Articles now available online ahead of print in Early View!
Journal of Agricultural Economics
Published on behalf of the Agricultural Economics Society
Edited by:
David Harvey
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 2/9 Agricultural Economics & Policy; 54/209 Economics
Impact Factor: 1.271
The Journal of Agricultural Economics is a leading international professional journal, providing a forum for research into agricultural economics and related disciplines such as statistics, marketing, business management, politics, history and sociology, and their application to issues in the agricultural, food, and related industries; rural communities, and the environment.
- A leading journal for the discipline worldwide - consistently highly ranked in the Agricultural Economics & Policy category of ISI
- A dynamic, international, applied social science journal dealing with agriculture, food and related industries, rural development and the environment
- Articles on developments in research and methods of analysis as well as the application of existing methods and techniques to new problems and situations
- Fast turnaround: average of 47 days from submission to first decision
TopNews and Announcements
2009 Prize Essay Competition
Submissions are invited for the JAE Prize Essay Competition. For more information please click here.
Online Content Now Available Back to Volume 1
All back issues of this journal are available online. Click here to browse contents and abstracts. For further information on how to access these issues please visit our Librarian Site.
2007 Impact Factor of 1.000!
With an increase of over 70%, the new impact factor places the JAE 56th in the Economics category.
To submit an article to the JAE, click here.
Rated 'A' class in the ABDC List
The JAE is rated as an 'A' class journal in the Australian Business Dean Council ABDC Journal List. The Council seeks to list journals relevant to Australian business academics and group them into four categories (A*, A, B & C).
Agricultural Economics Society Presidential Address The Governance of Rural Land in a Liberalised World by Ian Hodge
Special issue now online Click here
The JAE has invited Professor Philip Lowe, Director of the Research Councils UK Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (RELU), to act as guest editor of a special edition dealing with this programme.
NEW! Early View: Articles published online ahead of print
Articles accepted for publication in the JAE are now published online before appearing in a print edition. These articles are fully peer-reviewed, edited and complete and are made available for viewing by the academic community as quickly as possible, thereby reducing time to publication without sacrificing quality or completeness. The first 'Early View' article will shortly be available.
Free Online Access in the Developing World
Access to this journal is available free online within institutions in the developing world through the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) in conjunction with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.
TopHighlights
The Determinants of Rural Livelihood Diversification in Developing Countries
Frank Ellis
Accounting for Negative, Zero and Positive Willingness to Pay for Landscape change in a National Park
Nick Hanley, Sergio Colombo, Bengt Kriström and Fiona Watson
Governance and Agricultural Production Efficiency: A cross Country Aggregate Frontier Analysis
Mon-Chi Lio and Jin-Li Hu
Trade Creation and Diversion Effects of Preferential Trade Associations on Agricultural and Food Trade
David Lambert and Shahera McKoy
Technical Efficiency Among Peasant Farmers Participating in Natural Resource Management Programmes in Central America
Daniel Solís, Boris E. Bravo-Ureta and Ricardo E. Quiroga
