Potravinová soběstačnost České republiky v letech 2013 - 2022

This bachelor thesis aims to evaluate the issue of food self-sufficiency of the Czech Republic with a focus on the period 2013-2022. The thesis answers the question whether the Czech Republic was food self-sufficient in the selected decade and selected commodities. In the theoretical part, relevant economic theories related to population development and food availability are characterized. The types of self-sufficiency, the calculation of the food self-sufficiency rate and the possibilities of its measurement are also presented. Last but not least, the supply side (i.e. the agricultural land stock) and the demand side (i.e. the consumer) of the food market are defined. In the practical part, data on production and consumption possibilities of selected commodities are examined, on the basis of which the degree of self-sufficiency is evaluated. Furthermore, agrarian foreign trade is analysed, specifically imports and exports of the commodities under study. The empirical research is complemented by a discussion of current consumption trends. The main conclusions from the research conducted include the following. In the decade under review, the Czech Republic showed significantly higher self-sufficiency values for commodities of plant origin than for those of animal origin. Self-sufficiency was higher for wheat, maize and sugar commodities. Within animal commodities, it was self-sufficient only in beef and milk. The added value of the paper, apart from arriving at the above results, is the linking of the analysed data to actual events that occurred through the time series.