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Europe needs better pesticide policies to reduce impacts on biodiversity Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Robert Finger, Kevin Schneider, Jeroen Candel, Niklas Möhring
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Food security and poverty reduction effects of agricultural technologies adoption − a multinomial endogenous switching regression application in rural Zimbabwe Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Akuffo Amankwah, Tendai Gwatidzo
Using nationally representative household survey data and the multinomial endogenous switching regression (MESR) procedure, this study examines the productivity, food security, and poverty reduction effects of adopting improved seed and inorganic fertilizer in rural Zimbabwe. The results show that the joint adoption of improved seed and inorganic fertilizer is facilitated by household ownership of
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Effect of input subsidies and extension services: Evidence from rice productivity in Bangladesh Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Jaweriah Hazrana, Ashok K. Mishra
This study examines the effect of agricultural input subsidy cards and extension services on Bangladesh’s rice productivity, using plot level panel data from three waves (2011–2019) of the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey. To control for endogeneity of the two programs, instrumental variable and control function approaches are used. Findings reveal that access to input subsidy cards and extension
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Editorial: Introducing Policy Comments Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Christopher B. Barrett, Holly Wang
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Economic impacts of a disease outbreak in Canada’s pork industry: Case of a price-taking, open country Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Scott Biden, Alan P. Ker, Bruno Larue, Stephen Duff
The world has been experiencing a notable increase in disease outbreaks that have resulted in significant economic impacts and loss of life, both human and livestock. Here we consider the economic impacts of such an outbreak in a small (price-taking), open country case. Specifically, we consider a generic disease outbreak in the Canadian pork industry. The economic costs and animal welfare impacts
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Putting your money where your mouth is: Accelerating investment action for healthy and sustainable food systems in Australia Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Ella Robinson, Christine Parker, Rachel Carey, Anita Foerster, Miranda Blake, Katherine Sievert, Gary Sacks
Institutional investors have considerable potential to positively contribute to shifts towards healthier, more sustainable food systems. However, food systems issues are not systematically taken into account by investors as part of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations. This study aimed to identify current approaches to investment decision making regarding food systems issues and
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Looking at gender is not enough—How diversity of farmers’ marginalization relates to varietal trait preferences Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Eva Salve Tino Bacud, Maria Katharina Gerullis, Ranjitha Puskur, Thomas Heckelei
Improved crop varieties help farmers adapt to changing climate and socioeconomic challenges. They are essential for meeting the global food demand, but their adoption remains slow and low. One reason for this unsuccessful adoption is the disregard of trait preferences and marginalized contexts of diverse users by actors in varietal development and delivery. The general wisdom regarding trait preferences
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The impacts of widespread agricultural interventions on yields and food security in Ethiopia☆ Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Victor Cordonnier, Katia Alejandra Covarrubias, Ana Paula de la O Campos
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Are dairy farmers willing to pay for improved forage varieties? Experimental evidence from Kenya Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Jamleck Osiemo, Kenneth Waluse Sibiko, Stanley Karanja Ng'ang'a, An M.O. Notenbaert
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Does organic farming jeopardize food security of farm households in Benin? Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Ghislain B.D. Aïhounton, Arne Henningsen
The prevalence of organic farming and other sustainability standards is increasing around the globe. While effects of organic farming on productivity, income, and poverty alleviation have been analyzed in numerous empirical studies, its effects on food security are barely understood. Using data from smallholder cotton farmers in Benin, we aim to empirically investigate how adopting organic farming
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A trade-off between lives and the economy? Subsidizing dining out under the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Yupeng Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
We investigate how a government subsidy for dining out to support the restaurant industry has been associated with economic and health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. Using nationwide 500-meter mesh data, we demonstrate that Japan’s Go To Eat scheme, which was gradually introduced across all prefectures beginning in October 2020, mitigated the negative impact of the pandemic on population
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Government fertilizer subsidies, input use, and income: The case of Senegal Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Aymeric Ricome, Jesus Barreiro-Hurle, Cheickh Sadibou Fall
Most Sub-Saharan countries implement input subsidy programs (ISPs) in an attempt to increase fertilizer use, crop yields and farmers’ income and to improve household food security. Senegal is no exception and has had an ISP in place for the last 15 years. This article assesses how access to subsidized fertilizer under the ISP is associated with changes in fertilizer and manure use and gross margin
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Assessing the inhibitory effect and intervention mechanism of food traceability system on reducing hog farmers’ overuse of animal antibiotics in China Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ruishi Si, Xin Liu, Sitong Pan, Qian Lu, Mingyue Liu
The use of animal antibiotics is a double-edged sword. It can be used for disease treatment, health protection, and growth promoters. It also creates antibiotic residues and resistance, poses risks, and damages food safety, ecosystems, and public health. Under the pressure of disease risk and expected losses, farmers' overuse of animal antibiotics exacerbates this dual objective incompatibility. In
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Recall characteristics and food safety process control Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Michael Ollinger
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) initiated 1,073 recalls of meat and poultry products that could cause severe illness or death over 2000–2019. These recalls led to substantial drops in demand that vary by the characteristics of the recall () and incentivized firms to invest in food safety (). Following and , this paper examines differences in food safety process control for establishments
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Trends in the school lunch program: Changes in selection, nutrition & health Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Therese Bonomo, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
There has been significant national attention to the issue of childhood obesity, leading policymakers to reform the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to include stricter nutritional requirements. We use data on school lunch menus to document improvements in the nutritional quality of school meals between 1991 and 2010. We then evaluate how this change in nutritional content maps into obesity outcomes
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The organizational challenge of international agricultural research: The fifty-year odyssey of the CGIAR Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 John Lynam, Derek Byerlee, Joyce Lewinger Moock
Over its 50-year history, CGIAR has with increasing frequency revisited the question of how best to organize its research to address growing complexity of agricultural, food, and ecological systems, a multiplying set of development goals, changes in global science, increasing diversity of funding, and evolving capacities of partner organizations. We review this evolution over four periods noting inevitable
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The effect of universal free school meals on children’s food hardship Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 S, a, i, e, d, , T, o, o, s, s, i
In the United States, the federal government subsidized universal free school meals (UFSM) nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. This policy ended in June 2022. In response, several state governments subsidized extensions of UFSM statewide into the 2022–2023 school year. I leverage variation in state extensions of UFSM to examine the policy’s impact on school meal participation and rates of food
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How do regional and demographic differences in diets affect the health and environmental impact in China? Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Hongyi Cai, Sander Biesbroek, Zhiyao Chang, Xin Wen, Shenggen Fan, Pieter van 't Veer, Elise F. Talsma
A higher diet quality has been associated with lower environmental impacts, but not consistently. Considering the cultural diversity of dietary habits and the heterogeneity of socioeconomic development in China, we aimed to evaluate the association between diet quality and environmental impacts across demographic subgroups and regions. This study used dietary consumption data from the China Health
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Review: Effectiveness and policy implications of health taxes on foods high in fat, salt, and sugar Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Elisa Pineda, Mathilde Gressier, Danying Li, Todd Brown, Sarah Mounsey, Jack Olney, Franco Sassi
Taxation on food and non-alcoholic beverages are increasingly employed to promote healthier diets and combat the escalating rates of obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases. While sugar-sweetened beverages have been the primary focus of such taxes, taxation of high-fat, salt, or sugar (HFSS) foods, and the impact of such taxes are less clear. We conducted a systematic literature review and
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Big hands holding small hands: The role of new agricultural operating entities in farmland abandonment Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 L, i, n, y, i, , Z, h, e, n, g
It is crucial to address farmland abandonment to achieve Zero Hunger according to the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. However, quantitative research on this topic is relatively lacking. Based on a large sample of panel data from the Chinese Family Database, this study applies a panel Tobit model to examine the relationship between new agricultural operating entities (NAOEs) and farmland
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Public spending for agricultural risk management: Land use, regional welfare and intra-subsidy substitution Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Mauro Vigani, Amr Khafagy, Robert Berry
This paper analyses the factors influencing public expenditure on the EU’s Risk Management Toolkit comparing six types of regional-level spatial autoregressive models, and finding that there is a predominance of socio-economic factors over risk and agro-ecological factors in the allocation of budget. Higher expenditure occurs in more affluent regions and in areas with clusters of relatively high welfare
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Unravelling the provisioning system of a strategic food commodity to minimise import dependency: A study of garlic in Indonesia Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Adhitya Marendra Kiloes, Puspitasari, Anna Sulistyaningrum, Nur Khaririyatun, Djoko Mulyono, Sulusi Prabawati, Mohammad Jawal Anwarudin Syah, Nirmala Friyanti Devy, Hardiyanto
The debate surrounding the choice between self-producing or importing strategic food commodities becomes increasingly intriguing due to the complex dynamics of societies experiencing population growth and rising consumption. The case of garlic supply in Indonesia serves as an example. Despite Indonesia's efforts to enhance domestic production, the country still relies on imported garlic. Various government
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Price response to government disclosure of food safety information in developing markets Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Wen Lin, Baojie Ma, Jiangyuan Liang, Shaosheng Jin
This study investigates the impact of government disclosure of food safety information on market outcomes in a real and developing market setting. Prior research either relied on data from developed countries, or hypothetical and laboratory experiments to examine market responsiveness to food safety information. Using a panel dataset of weekly pork wholesale prices and pork sampling test result variables
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Who takes up a free lunch? Summer Food Service Program availability and household grocery food spending Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 A, l, y, s, s, a, , B, r, o, w, n
The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provides free meals to children in low-income neighborhoods as a summertime replacement for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). Unlike the NSLP, the SFSP does not directly means test its recipients, and there are no large-scale administrative data describing the children it serves. I provide the first descriptive evidence of how SFSP site availability and
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Submitted and Denied: Understanding variation in case status across Supplemental Nutrition assistance program (SNAP) applications Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Shellye Suttles, Angela Babb, Daniel C. Knudsen
Our study investigates the application process for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and barriers to successful SNAP participation among potentially eligible households. We know that only 84 percent of eligible individuals in the United States participated in SNAP prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective is to understand continued barriers to SNAP participation among eligible
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Evidence for initiating food safety policy: An assessment of the quality and safety of donated food at an Australian food bank Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Sharonna Mossenson, Roslyn Giglia, Claire E. Pulker, Miranda Chester, Catrina McStay, Christina M Pollard
Food banks play a vital role in addressing the needs of people experiencing food insecurity. Food banks rely on the food industry, particularly supermarkets, for food donations, and on voluntary labor to scrutinize and sort donations for quality and safety. Currently, national food safety laws and policies in Australia regulate food businesses, but do not specifically apply to donations. There are
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The glass of milk half-empty? Dairy development and nutrition in low and middle income countries Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Derek D. Headey, Harold Alderman, John Hoddinott, Sudha Narayanan
Dairy products have an exceptionally rich nutrient profile and have long been promoted in high income countries to redress child malnutrition. But given all this potential, and the high burden of undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), why isn’t dairy consumption more actively promoted in the developing world? In this review we focus on a broadly defined concept of “dairy development”
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Livestock diversification mitigates the impact of farmer-herder conflicts on animal-source foods consumption in Nigeria Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Olusegun Fadare, Chittur Srinivasan, Giacomo Zanello
The escalation of farmer-herder conflicts poses a threat to agricultural production and livelihood outcomes in Nigeria. However, households with adaptive capacity may mitigate the negative impact of these conflicts on nutritious food consumption. In this study, we examine the impact of farmer-herder conflicts on animal-source foods (ASF) consumption and investigate the extent to which livestock diversification
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The food and beverage marketing monitoring framework for Canada: Development, implementation, and gaps Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Monique Potvin Kent, Christine Mulligan, Elise Pauzé, Adena Pinto, Lauren Remedios
As many countries are considering the restriction of marketing to children for unhealthy foods and beverages to improve population health, systematic monitoring of this marketing to inform and evaluate policies is critical. The objective of this research was to develop and describe the Food and Beverage Marketing Monitoring Framework for Canada, a framework commissioned by Health Canada to help guide
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Gender, rainfall endowment, and farmers’ heterogeneity in wheat trait preferences in Ethiopia Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Hom N. Gartaula, Gebrelibanos Gebremariam, Moti Jaleta
Wheat is a vital cereal crop for smallholders in Ethiopia. Despite over fifty years of research on wheat varietal development, consideration of gendered trait preferences in developing target product profiles for wheat breeding is limited. To address this gap, our study used sex-disaggregated survey data and historical rainfall trends from the major wheat-growing regions in Ethiopia. The findings indicated
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Dairy trade liberalization and child stunting: Evidence from low- and middle-income countries Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Xinghua Liu, Yue Liang, Kevin Z. Chen
Despite the well-studied nutritional benefits of dairy for child linear growth, dairy is less consumed in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the prevalence of child stunting is high. Previous studies have suggested the cost of dairy as a potential barrier to increased dairy consumption in these countries. Surprisingly, little research on the association between dairy consumption and child
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Food security and the COVID-19 employment shock in Nigeria: Any ex-ante mitigating effects of past remittances? Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Al-Mouksit Akim, Firmin Ayivodji, Jeffrey Kouton
This paper examines the role of past remittances in mitigating the adverse effects of COVID-19 employment shocks on food security in Nigeria. We formally define the mitigating effects parameter as the difference in the shock impact between households that received remittances and those that did not. Leveraging pre- and post-COVID-19 surveys, we employ a triple-difference strategy to estimate the mitigating
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Dairy consumption and household diet quality in East Africa: Evidence from survey-based simulation models Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Olivier Ecker, Karl Pauw
Dairy foods are an important source of essential macro- and micronutrients in household diets, and their consumption is associated with reduced malnutrition, especially among young children. Low dairy consumption in many developing countries is a justification for programs that promote dairy livestock ownership, help develop dairy value chains, or stimulate dairy demand. While several studies confirm
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What drives the reduction in sodium intake? Evidence from scanner data Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Ezgi Cengiz, Christian Rojas
Some evidence suggests that sodium intake in the United States has been declining, but little is known about the driving forces behind this trend. We construct detailed, barcode-level information on the near-universe of packaged food products to isolate and quantify the role that product reformulation, vis-à-vis consumer purchasing behavior, has played in this decline. We find that product reformulation
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Food for thought: A meta-analysis of animal food demand elasticities across world regions Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Clara G. Bouyssou, Jørgen Dejgård Jensen, Wusheng Yu
Animal food products are featured prominently in current debates on dietary transitions. Food demand projections and policy evaluations often draw on expenditure and price elasticity estimates; thus, it is crucial that these elasticities are robust at an adequate product disaggregation, well-founded, and comparable both across products and countries. To the extent of our knowledge, there is no analysis
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Does agricultural intensification pay in the context of structural transformation? Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Ghislain Aihounton, Luc Christiaensen
Modern inputs and mechanization are promoted across Africa to raise smallholder labor productivity and broker the structural transformation. Yet, adoption has remained low and the implications for returns to labor and labor allocation remain poorly understood. This paper explores the effects of different intensification packages on farm performance, market orientation, and food security using data
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Knowledge and use of voluntary food and drink guidelines in English nurseries? Results from a nationally representative cross-sectional study Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Emily Warren, Paul Boadu, Josephine Exley, Lorraine Williams, Bob Erens, Cécile Knai
Good nutrition in early life is vital for healthy development, and sets the stage for good health throughout the life-course. Most children aged 0–4 years old in the UK spend at least some time each week in an early years’ setting (EYS), such as a nursery or childminder. Unlike schools which serve older children, there are no statutory standards for the food and drinks served to the youngest children
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Viewpoint: The uptake of new crop science: Explaining success, and failure Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Robert Paarlberg, Anjanabha Bhattacharya, Jikun Huang, Margaret Karembu, Carl Pray, Justus Wesseler
Applications of new crop science often spread widely to reach farm fields, but sometimes they do not. The Green Revolution seeds first released in the 1960s and 1970s were taken up widely and quickly, but the transgenic GMO seeds first released in the 1990s, which also performed well, have remained highly restricted. After more than two decades, 84 percent of all GMO crop acres around the world are
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Exploring the relationships among stocks of community wealth, state farm to school policies, and the intensity of farm to school activities Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Pratyoosh Kashyap, Becca B.R. Jablonski, Allison Bauman
Farm to School (FTS) is a widely implemented public food procurement program in the U.S., and the number of state and Federal policies promoting it continue to grow. However, previous research has found inconclusive results associated with state-level policies. One reason may be that FTS adoption is associated with different stocks of community wealth (assets including human, social, and financial
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Household dairy production, dairy intake, and anthropometric outcomes in rural Bangladesh Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 M. Mehrab Bakhtiar, John Hoddinott
We assess whether ownership of dairy cows is associated with a greater likelihood of consuming dairy products and with child anthropometric status in rural Bangladesh. Consistent with the assumption of imperfectly functioning markets for dairy products, ownership of dairy cows increases the likelihood that a child 6–59 months consumes milk by 7.7 percentage points with no difference in this association
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Does food quality certification improve eco-efficiency? Empirical evidence from Chinese vegetable production Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Shijia Kang, Fabian Frick, Amer Ait Sidhoum, Johannes Sauer, Shaofeng Zheng
This study examines the impact of food quality certification on farms’ eco-efficiency in China, recognizing that the certification acts as a catalyst for encouraging more sustainable practices. The data was collected from 1855 vegetable growers in Shandong and Hebei provinces. Following a two-step approach, stochastic frontier analysis is applied to estimate eco-efficiency scores of smallholder farms
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Direct and spillover effects of biofortified sweetpotato interventions on sustained adoption in Malawi Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Marcel Gatto, Wisdom R. Mgomezulu, Julius J. Okello, Willy Pradel, Norman Kwikiriza, Guy G. Hareau
Agriculture-nutrition interventions (ANI) have recently received attention as a promising delivery mechanism for achieving desirable nutritional outcomes. However, more evidence is needed on the effectiveness of such interventions. In this study, we analyze direct and spillover effects of ANIs for biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) in Malawi on sustained household outcomes: OFSP adoption
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How consumer and provider responses to nutritional labelling interact: An online shopping experiment with implications for policy Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Deirdre A. Robertson, Ylva Andersson, Peter D. Lunn
Food labelling policies are usually conceptualised as a way to inform consumers about nutritional content of food. Although often unstated, a secondary aim is to encourage industry to reformulate recipes or introduce healthier alternatives. Parallel bodies of research examine how consumers and industry respond to food labelling policies. In this study we explored the interaction between provider and
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‘Because of its size, it’s not worth it!’: The viability of small-scale geographical indication schemes Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Rubén Boga, Valerià Paül
We analyse the theoretical tenets underpinning geographical indications (GIs) and seek to determine whether the number of producers engaged in them matters. To do so, we develop a qualitative methodology to focus on two small-scale cheese productions located in mountain areas endowed with a GI: Cebreiro (Galicia, NW Spain) and Tolminc (Slovenia). In both instances, just two dairies actively produce
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Value of certification in collective reputation crises: Evidence from Chinese dairy firms Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Yu Jin, Jiehong Zhou, Juntao Ye
Collective reputation crisis incidents imply considerable negative within-sector spillovers. Understanding how to reduce such negative spillovers is crucial for industry development, especially in the food industry where information is asymmetric. As certification is an important tool to reduce information asymmetry in product quality, it’s role in reducing such spillovers needs to be discussed systematically
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Animal-sourced foods production and early childhood nutrition: Panel data evidence in central Madagascar Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Zoniaina Ramahaimandimby, Sakiko Shiratori, Jules Rafalimanantsoa, Takeshi Sakurai
Renewed interest in the significance of Animal-Sourced Foods (ASF) in addressing a variety of health issues in developing countries, most notably stunted growth in children, has arisen recently. Although ASF products constitute an important source of proteins and essential nutrients for young children, empirical evidence on the relationship between ASF production and child growth is limited, especially
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Climate-smart agricultural practices for promoting sustainable agrifood production: Yield impacts and implications for food security Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Puneet Vatsa, Wanglin Ma, Hongyun Zheng, Junpeng Li
Climate change is increasing the vulnerability of agriculture to climate risks and hindering sustainable agrifood production. This study explored whether and to what extent adopting climate-smart agricultural practices (CAPs) can contribute to food security by improving crop yields. We focussed on five CAPs—minimum tillage, improved rice varieties, farmyard manure, water-saving technology, and biopesticides
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Economic impact assessment of public incentives to support farm-to-school food purchases Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Shayna M. Krasnoff, Todd M. Schmit, Cheryl B. Bilinski
Farm-to-school projects have been widely supported by policy makers with funding provided at state and federal levels. Still, many of the outcomes of this inflow of policy and funding remain unclear, often due to insufficient data to examine them. In 2018, New York State (USA) announced the 30% NY Initiative that substantially increases school lunch reimbursements if school districts purchase at least
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Can government investment in food pantries decrease food insecurity? Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Brian T. Hamel, Moriah Harman
About 10% of Americans are food insecure, lacking consistent access to enough food for a healthy lifestyle. One way that the federal government seeks to reduce food insecurity is by investing in charitable food providers, such as food banks and pantries. This paper highlights a limitation on the potential effects of these investments on food insecurity: some communities have more charitable food providers
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Online Purchasing Pilot’s impact on food insufficiency Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Kyle Jones, Andrea Leschewski, Jordan Jones, Grace Melo
Mandated under the 2014 Farm Bill, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Online Purchasing Pilot (OPP) was initially intended to test the feasibility of allowing online SNAP benefit redemption for groceries. In early 2020, the OPP was rapidly expanded to address pandemic-induced barriers to food access among SNAP households in the United States. Using data from the Census Bureau's Household
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Food aid and violent conflict: A review and Empiricist’s companion Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Maximilian Koppenberg, Ashok K. Mishra, Stefan Hirsch
Food aid presents a core component of humanitarian support for people incapable of meeting basic human needs and aims to bolster food security. However, some studies suggest that food aid may cause violent conflicts in recipient countries, which has initiated a controversy regarding the impact of food aid on conflict in the political and scientific debate. We decompose the relationship between food
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National organic action plans and organic farmland area growth in Europe Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Charles Rees, Christian Grovermann, Robert Finger
The expansion of organic agricultural production methods has been tendered as a critical factor in the development of a sustainable global food system. The European Union has led efforts to expand organic farming, with a current target share of 25% organic farmland area by 2030 through the Farm-to-Fork strategy. Many member states have set organic area targets through the initiation of organic action
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Ozone stress and crop harvesting failure: Evidence from US food production Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Ziheng Liu, Qinan Lu
Farmers react to ozone injury by abandoning crops when the expected revenues cannot compensate for the harvesting costs. This study provides the first empirical evidence of ozone pollution’s impact on the decision to abandon crops. Using a causal inference framework, we find evidence that a one-standard-deviation rise in ozone concentration decreases the harvested ratios of corn and soybeans by 0.133
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Food for thought: Assessing the consumer welfare impacts of deploying irreversible, landscape-scale biotechnologies Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Michael S. Jones, Zachary S. Brown
Genetically engineered insects have gained attention as regionally deployed pest control technologies, with substantial applications in agriculture for combatting intractable crop pests and diseases. One potential tool is a ‘gene drive’, using CRISPR-based gene editing. In gene drive, preferentially inherited, engineered traits are spread throughout a geographic area to reduce pest populations or inhibit
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Viewpoint: Finance needs of the agricultural midstream Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw, Sylvan Herskowitz, Cristhian Pulido
Recent literature suggests that agricultural value chains are changing rapidly and places an increasing focus on the importance of actors and activities taking place in the “midstream” of these value chains, after production and prior to final sale. This article discusses the financial needs of midstream actors in agricultural value chains, emphasizing differences across midstream activities and highlighting
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Opening the “black box” of food safety policy implementation: The efficiency-enhancing role of a private meso-institution Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira, Bruno Varella Miranda, Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes, Gaetano Martino
There is continuing interest in how rules created at the “institutional environment” level influence the performance of food safety policies. The influence of institutional rules on the behavior of farms and firms may vary widely depending on how strongly incentives reach potential users. This article assesses how the creation of a private meso-institution (i.e., Conseleite) affects the implementation
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Nudging farmers to reduce water pollution from nitrogen fertilizer Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Yuan Chai, David J. Pannell, Philip G. Pardey
Nitrogen sourced from agricultural fertilizers is a major contributor to water pollution. Despite policies targeting a range of farming practice changes, the goal of substantially reducing nitrogen losses from farms remains elusive. We highlight three empirical results from production economics that appear to provide opportunities for behavioral science to contribute to reducing nitrogen pollution
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Please keep ordering! A natural field experiment assessing a carbon label introduction Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Mirta Casati, Claudio Soregaroli, Jens Rommel, Gloria Luzzani, Stefanella Stranieri
We conduct a natural field experiment investigating the efficacy of environmental information provision while considering its relationships with individual consumers’ habitual behaviour. A carbon label was introduced to the lowest-emission dish for each food category on the menu of a full-service restaurant; its efficacy was assessed by distinguishing its immediate impact on orders placed by the restaurant’s
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Informational nudges in conservation auctions: A field experiment with U.S. farmers Food Policy (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Steven Wallander, Laura A. Paul, Paul J. Ferraro, Kent D. Messer, Richard Iovanna
In the U.S., the fifth largest “crop” is vegetation dedicated to environmental conservation. Over 22 million acres of perennial covers are planted on environmentally sensitive land enrolled in U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), one of the largest agricultural conservation programs in the world. About half of CRP lands are enrolled through a complex reverse auction