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Does it matter how we ship the good apples out? On specific tariffs, transport modes, and agricultural export prices Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Dela‐Dem Doe Fiankor, Bernhard Dalheimer, Daniele Curzi, Onno Hoffmeister, Bernhard Brümmer
Free‐on‐board (FOB) export prices for identical products from the same origin often differ across destinations, even when accounting for the trade costs and attributes of the destination country. One explanation for this observed price difference is per‐unit trade costs, and the ability of exporters to vary their markups and/or product quality. Using a novel dataset that details trade flows between
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Investigating the economic impact of climate change on agriculture in Iran: Spatial spillovers matter Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 SayedMorteza Malaekeh, Layla Shiva, Ammar Safaie
In this study, we enhance our understanding of the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture in Iran to provide further information for moving Iran's climate policy forward by linking farmland net revenue to novel climatic and non‐climatic variables. We take advantage of spatial panel econometrics to better circumvent omitted factors extraneous to the agricultural sector and to develop a more
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The direct and indirect effects of cash transfer program on the consumption of nutrients: Evidence from Kenya Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Silas Ongudi, Djiby Thiam, Mario J. Miranda, Sam Abdoul
How does the receipt of a cash transfer impact consumption of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals in households? To answer this question, we use a randomized controlled trial dataset from Hunger Safety Net Program (HSNP) with 9,246 households spread across the four districts (Turkana, Marsabit, Wajir, and Mandera) of Kenya. In the experiment, HSNP treated households received a bi‐monthly cash transfer
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Price support policy and market price dynamics: The case of Indian wheat Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ashutosh K. Tripathi
The study investigates the effect of price support policies on market price distribution and its dynamics in the Indian wheat market. The analysis uses a quantile autoregression model that provides a flexible representation of price dynamics and the 2001–2020 monthly wholesale market price data. The analysis is conducted conditional on the net stock level held in the previous period. The results reveal
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Impact of the Ruble exchange rate regime and Russia's war in Ukraine on wheat prices in Russia Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Stanislav Yugay, Linde Götz, Miranda Svanidze
We assess exchange rate pass‐through when the Ruble exchange rate was managed in comparison with when it became free‐floating. Estimates of the error correction model for milling wheat prices suggest exchange rate pass‐through to be strongest in Russia's North Caucasus, the region closest to the Black Sea ports, and weakest in the remote regions of Volga and West Siberia since the Ruble exchange rate
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Impact of farm subsidies on global agricultural productivity Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Abdullah Mamun
The agriculture sector receives substantial fiscal subsidies in various forms, including through programs that are linked to production and others that are decoupled. As the sector has reached the technology frontier in production over the last three decades or so, particularly in high‐ and middle‐income countries, it is intriguing to investigate the impact of subsidies on productivity at aggregate
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On the willingness to pay for food sustainability labelling: A meta‐analysis Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Giovanna Piracci, Emilia Lamonaca, Fabio Gaetano Santeramo, Fabio Boncinelli, Leonardo Casini
Sustainability labelling is an extremely complex, multifaceted, and debated topic. Through a systematic and meta‐analytical approach, we disentangled the informative contents of environmental and social labels and investigated their effect on the consumer willingness to pay for food products. The premium prices for sustainability labels are largely heterogeneous depending on the information disclosed
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How do price (risk) changes influence farmers’ preferences to reduce fertilizer application? Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Sergei Schaub, Nadja El Benni
The decision of farmers to reduce fertilizer applications and, thus, the achievement of agri‐environmental policy goals interacts with market price developments. In this study, we analyze how changes in price levels and volatility over time (i.e., 1991–2006 vs. 2007–2022) affected farmers’ preferences to reduce fertilizer application using statistical inferences of stochastic dominances. The analysis
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Europe's ambitious pesticide policy and its impact on agriculture and food systems Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Robert Finger
European countries have set ambitious policy goals to reduce the risks of pesticides to the environment and human health. European agriculture could play a leading role in the transition to a low pesticide risk future, with various societal benefits. However, such a transition also involves trade-offs, costs, and risks for farmers and society. Here, we summarize possible implications for agriculture
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Do combined sustainable agricultural intensification practices improve smallholder farmers welfare? Evidence from eastern and western Kenya Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Wilckyster Nyateko Nyarindo, Amin Mugera, Atakelty Hailu, Gideon Aiko Obare
Smallholder farmers often bundle different sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI) practices to boost crop yield and address soil fertility challenges. However, there is a dearth of empirical studies that investigate farmers’ adoption of SAI bundles and their subsequent impacts. Using data from a three-wave panel survey of smallholder maize-legume producers in Kenya, we examine the adoption
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Group-based and citizen science on-farm variety selection approaches for bean growers in Central America Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Martina Occelli, Jorge Sellare, Kauê De Sousa, Matteo Dell'Acqua, Leida Mercado, Saul Paredes, Juan Robalino, Juan Carlos Rosas, Jacob van Etten
Participatory approaches for crop variety testing can help breeding teams to incorporate traditional knowledge and consider site-specific sociocultural complexities. However, traditional participatory approaches have drawbacks and are seldom streamlined or scaled. Decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science addresses some of these challenges. In this study, we compare a citizen science
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The hedonic price model for the wine market: A systematic and comparative review of the literature Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Jacobo Núñez, David Martín-Barroso, Francisco J. Velázquez
This paper carries out a thorough review of the literature on the estimation of hedonic price functions in the wine market, compiling and carefully documenting all research work on the subject. The review analyses the main methodological decisions taken by the different authors, as well as the typology of the available databases: identification of the relevant market, specification of the price function
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Armed conflicts and household food insecurity: Effects and mechanisms Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Wendata A. Kafando, Takeshi Sakurai
Despite extensive studies on the effects of armed conflict on household dietary diversity, food security, and nutritional outcomes, the underlying pathways remain underexplored. A better understanding of these mechanisms could unpack the subsequent effects of conflict-induced food insecurity and oft-reported nutritional shortcoming, as well as identify which policy interventions hold promise. We study
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The impact of deviations from soybean product crushing estimates on return and risk Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Hussein Abdoh, Michael Chitavi
This study explores how differences in market yields of soymeal and soyoil, as derived from market prices compared to those obtained through the physical process of crushing soybeans, impact the returns and volatilities of these commodities. Positive (negative) deviations are associated with negative (positive) changes in return. Additionally, these deviations positively correlate with return volatility
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Agriculture and AfCFTA: NTM reductions increases intra-Africa trade Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Jayson Beckman, Michael E. Johnson, Maros Ivanic
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is expected to provide trade gains for Africa, especially from reducing non-tariff measures (NTM). Unfortunately, data on NTMs is scarce, both by country and sector. Using three underlying NTM data sets and other data sources, we provide a range of estimates to fill the missing gaps in the existing estimates. Focusing on agriculture, we then use a computable
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Estimating perennial crop supply response: A methodology literature review Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Jonathon Siegle, Gregory Astill, Zoë Plakias, Daniel Tregeagle
Perennial crops are important both economically and as a component of a healthy and nutritious diet (e.g., many fruits and nuts). However, the study of perennial crop production and farmer response to output price changes (i.e., supply response) is complex thanks to the dynamic nature of investment and decision making in these industries. The body of literature relevant to perennial crop supply response
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Agri-food trade channel and the ASEAN macroeconomic impacts from output and price shocks Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Mala Raghavan, Faisal Khan, Evelyn S. Devadason
This paper examines the diffusion of external (output and price) shocks to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) through the agri-food trade channel for the 1990Q1 to 2020Q4 period. For that purpose, the study develops a Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR) model to simulate the region's economic resilience (output, inflation, interest rate and exchange rate) from various external shocks
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Dynamics of food demand during political instability: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Barchynai Kimsanova, Golib Sanaev, Thomas Herzfeld
This study assesses the impact of two revolutions—the Tulip Revolution in 2005 and the Melon Revolution in 2010—on household food demand in Kyrgyzstan. Different categories within food products witnessed distinct adjustments in consumer demand. Employing a complete demand system and seemingly unrelated regressions with nationally representative panel data, we find that household food demand fluctuates
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Spatial market integration during a pandemic: Evidence from food markets in Nigeria Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Mulubrhan Amare, Kibrom A. Abay, Patrick Hatzenbuehler
This paper uses comprehensive and long time series monthly food price data and a panel dyadic regression framework to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses on spatial market integration across a diverse set of food items in Nigeria. The empirical results reveal several important insights. First, we show that a significant slowdown in the speed of adjustment and
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The distributional impact of SNAP on dietary quality Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Jinglin Feng, Linlin Fan, Edward C. Jaenicke
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation's largest domestic food and nutrition assistance program for low-income Americans. Recent studies that examined the effect of SNAP on dietary quality focus on the average effects. Using the USDA's 2012 National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and an unconditional quantile estimator, we examine the distributional
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Mobile phone network expansion and agricultural income: A panel study Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Svenja Fluhrer, Kati Kraehnert
This study examines how the expansion of mobile phone networks affects rural development in Mongolia. The database is a detailed household panel survey with four waves implemented in western Mongolia, spanning the 2012–2021 period, which we combine with data on mobile phone towers. Our identification strategy exploits the uneven roll-out of mobile phone networks across rural areas over time. Using
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Does bundling credit with index insurance boost agricultural technology adoption? Evidence from Ghana Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Khushbu Mishra, Richard A. Gallenstein, Abdoul G. Sam, Mario J. Miranda, Patricia Toledo, Francis Mulangu
The adoption of advanced agricultural technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa remains disappointingly low, particularly among the millions of poor smallholders who account for most of the agricultural production. We conducted a randomized control trial in Ghana to assess the impact of easing drought-risk constraints in the agricultural credit market, by bundling joint liability agricultural loans with index
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Counterfactual evaluation of two Austrian agri-environmental schemes in 2014–2018 Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Reinhard Uehleke, Heidi Leonhardt, Silke Hüttel
This article investigates the causal effect of farm participation in two Austrian agri-environmental schemes (AES), Immergrün (ground cover) and Zwischenfrucht (catch cropping), on fertilizer and plant protection expenditures in the 2014 programming period. Combining European Farm Accountancy Data Network data with information on scheme participation from administrative control data offers identifying
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Spatial growth and convergence in Indian agriculture Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Sedithippa J. Balaji, Munisamy Gopinath
The economic growth convergence between advanced nations and the rest of the world has been found to reduce global income inequality. However, less is known about convergence within nations, especially in developing economies with substantial regional heterogeneities. Using the neoclassical framework, this study tests for farm income convergence in India, where agriculture employs over 200 million
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Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions on Dutch dairy farms. An efficiency analysis incorporating the circularity principle. Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Scarlett Wang, Frederic Ang, Alfons Oude Lansink
Circular agriculture is vital to achieve a substantial reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Optimizing resources and land use are an essential circularity principle. The objective of this article is to assess the extent to which land optimization can simultaneously reduce GHG emissions and increase production on dairy farms. In addition, we explore the potential reduction of GHG emissions under
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Optimal grid size for site-specific nutrient application Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Brian E. Mills, B. Wade Brorsen, Davood Poursina, D. Brian Arnall
This article develops a theoretical framework to determine the economically optimal grid size when sampling to guide precision application of inputs. Our theoretical model shows that a finer grid is optimal with increases in output price. A coarser grid is optimal with increased sampling costs and increased spatial correlation. With an exponential variogram, for example, the optimal grid size increases
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National and subnational regulation of farm practices for consumer products sold within a jurisdiction: California's Proposition 12 Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Hanbin Lee, Richard J. Sexton, Daniel A. Sumner
This article studies the economic effects of regulations that restrict farm practices used to produce products sold within a regulating jurisdiction, regardless of where the product was produced. We apply this analysis to the impact of California's law on sow housing and the North American hog/pork supply chain. California's Proposition 12 requires that specified pork products sold in California come
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Is dirt cheap? The economic costs of failing to meet soil health requirements on smallholder farms Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic
Agricultural productivity is hindered in smallholder farming systems due to several factors, including farmers’ inability to meet crop-specific soil requirements. This article focuses on soil suitability for maize production and creates multidimensional soil suitability profiles of smallholder maize plots in Uganda while quantifying forgone production due to cultivation on less-than-suitable land and
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Labor elasticities, market failures, and misallocation: Evidence from Indian agriculture Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Joshua D. Merfeld
This article presents evidence of misallocation across households in rural Indian agriculture. I show that household demographics predict own farm labor demand for smallholder farmers but not non-smallholder farmers. A simple model of labor allocation predicts a clear consequence of this duality: smallholder farmers will reallocate labor across plots less in response to price changes than non-smallholders
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The poor do not pay more: Evidence from Tanzanian consumer food expenditures controlling for the food environment Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Christine M. Sauer, Thomas Reardon, Nicole M. Mason
We revisit the question of whether the poor pay more for food using household food expenditure data from Tanzania. We control for spatial factors that could affect food prices, namely, whether a rural household is in a peri-urban, intermediate, or hinterland rural zone (distinguished by distance to urban areas) and whether an urban household is in a primary city, secondary city, or a town. Our results
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A semiparametric spatio-temporal model of crop yield trend and its implication to insurance rating Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Kuangyu Wen
We demonstrate the benefit of spatial smoothing for crop trend estimation with a deterministic spatio-temporal trend model. The proposed model is semiparametric, where the parametric temporal trend is modeled with a two-knot spline function for forecasting robustness, and the nonparametric spatially-varying coefficients are modeled by the radial basis function method for flexibility. To select the
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Extreme weather and agricultural management decisions among smallholder farmers in rural Thailand and Vietnam Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Sabine Liebenehm, Huong Jaretzky, Hermann Waibel
In this article, we explore whether and to what extent smallholder farmers in Northeastern Thailand and Central Vietnam adjust their farm-level management strategies in response to droughts. We hereby consider adjustments in flexible adaptive strategies including water management, fertilizer and pesticide application, labor, and machine use in response to a contemporaneous drought, and adjustments
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Examining spatial market efficiency under different marketing regulations: The case of Turkish lemon markets Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Hüseyin Taştan, Yılmaz Köprücü
This study evaluates spatial market and storage efficiency in Turkish lemon markets using switching regime (SR) and threshold autoregression models. Our sample period includes a crucial regulatory reform aimed at improving the performance of fresh fruit and vegetable markets, shortening the production-consumption chain, and reducing retail prices. Using an extended SR model that allows for a gradual
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What promotes production contract in Indian agriculture? Managing market risk versus profit orientation Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Saroj, Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh
We identify factors influencing farmers’ decision-making on various production contracts and are explicitly concerned with whether managing market risk or profit orientation promotes contract farming (CF). After controlling for potential endogeneity, the IV-Tobit regression results indicate that farmers’ risk behavior and profit orientation are vital factors driving CF participation decisions. However
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Gender gaps in land rights: Explaining different measures and why households differ in Myanmar Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Isabel Brigitte Lambrecht, Kristi Mahrt, Nang Lun Kham Synt, Hnin Ei Win, Khin Zin Win
Measuring and understanding gender differences in property rights is key to informing policy decisions and guiding investments aimed at fostering gender equality. However, there are a myriad ways of assessing property rights. Firstly, we assess which indicators to use and why it matters, focusing on rural Myanmar. Myanmar provides an interesting setting, as a large part of the population customarily
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Risk and ambiguity aversion: Incentives or disincentives for adoption of improved agricultural land management practices? Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Amanuel Hadera, Tewodros Tadesse
Farmers grapple with uncertainties related to the adoption of improved agricultural practices. Adoption decisions on these practices may vary in response to risk in which farmers may be able to predict the chances of occurrence on outcomes of their decisions, and/or ambiguity where adoption-decision outcome probabilities are unknown. Also, these uncertainties may emanate from imperfect information
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Separability, spillovers, and segmented markets : Evidence from dairy in India Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Sudha Narayanan, Digvijay S Negi, Tanu Gupta
A long history of empirical research has focused on testing whether and when household consumption and production decisions are separable. If markets were perfect, household consumption would be independent of production. In this article, we propose that market channel choice complicates this relationship. Our analysis of household panel data from rural India, focusing on dairy, leads us to four key
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Will climate change jeopardize the Vietnamese target of maintaining farmland for food security? A fractional multinomial logit analysis of land use choice Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Trinh Nguyen Chau, Frank Scrimgeour
The Vietnamese government is concerned with long-term food security due to the rising demand for food and potential climate-induced conversion of areas under food production. This article is among the first studies which examine the climate-induced uptake of crop substitution and its likely impact on the national target of maintaining food areas to sustain food security. In contrast to most crop choice
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Gender pay gaps in economics: A deeper look at institutional factors Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 MinSub Kim, Joyce J. Chen, Bruce A. Weinberg
Using rich data on graduate tenure-track faculty, we explore the gender pay gap in academic departments of economics and agricultural/applied economics and the differences between them. We find that the gender pay gaps in economics and agricultural/applied economics are 8.3% and 4.1%, respectively, controlling for faculty rank, experience, and university affiliation. The gender pay gap increases with
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Free power, irrigation, and groundwater depletion: Impact of farm electricity policy of Punjab, India Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Disha Gupta
This paper examines the impact of a change in the policy regime from flat rate to free farm electricity pricing, introduced in Punjab, India in February 1997 using a difference-in-differences framework. Based on village-level data from the second and the third rounds of the Minor Irrigation Census, the study finds a differential increase in the number of electric-operated tubewells and horsepower load
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Weather shocks, livelihood diversification, and household food security: Empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Masanori Matsuura, Yir-Hueih Luh, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam
Extreme weather events have occurred more frequently because of global climate change. For farmers, diversification, including crop and income diversification, is one of the most effective strategies to improve rural livelihoods by managing risk and coping with weather shocks. We investigate the empirical linkages among weather shocks, livelihood diversification, and household food security, exploiting
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Unregistered pesticides: Prevalence, risks, and responses in Mali Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Steven Haggblade, Naman Keita, Abdramane Traoré, Pierre Traoré, Amadou Diarra, Véronique Thériault
Improved agricultural inputs—including seeds, fertilizer, and pest control products—are necessary for raising farm productivity in Africa. Yet, in many locations, variable input quality and a proliferation of unregistered brands make product selection and calibration of optimal dosages difficult for farmers. Unregistered pesticides pose two specific quality problems: frequent underdosage and, in some
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Full-cost accounting and redefining the cost of food: Implications for agricultural economics research Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Joachim von Braun, Sheryl L. Hendriks
Food systems have significant externalities that are not reflected in market prices. A first step to correct parts of these externalities is to make them transparent through “true-” or full-cost accounting. Estimates of the external health and environmental costs of food systems at a global level suggest that they may be about two times larger than food valued at market prices, that is, about 20 trillion
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Occupational sex segregation in agriculture: Evidence on gender norms and socio-emotional skills in Nigeria Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Smita Das, Clara Delavallade, Ayodele Fashogbon, Wale Olatunji Ogunleye, Sreelakshmi Papineni
Occupational sex segregation is a key driver of the gender gap in earnings. Using data from 11,691 aspiring agribusiness entrepreneurs in Nigeria, this article explores factors that drive sectoral choice, gender differences in the choice decision, and especially the role played by norms around gender roles. When given a choice of 11 agricultural value chains in a government program, we find the majority
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The roles of risk preferences, selection, and uncertain returns on land contracts Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Jun Yeong Lee, Grant Durbahn, Peter F. Orazem, Wendong Zhang
Using panel data on a statistically representative sample of Iowa farmland parcels from 1997 to 2017, we analyze the factors determining whether land is farmed by the owner or rented out under a cash rent or crop share contract. The landowner's decision to rent or operate the land depends on the distribution of expected net returns to the land, and so estimates of the factors affecting rental terms
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Dealing with low-probability shocks: The role of selected heuristics in farmers’ risk management decisions Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Christoph Duden, Oliver Mußhoff, Frank Offermann
Dealing with weather extremes is a major challenge for farmers and often comes at high costs for public budgets. Therefore, we investigate the influence of specific simplified decision rules, so-called heuristics, on farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for protecting themselves against low-probability and high-consequence weather shocks. To this end, we conducted a framed field experiment with 237 farmers
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When my neighbors matter: Spillover effects in the adoption of large-scale pesticide-free wheat production Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Yanbing Wang, Niklas Möhring, Robert Finger
We investigate the spillover effects in farmers’ adoption decisions of a novel pesticide-free wheat production system. To this end, we exploit the variability and asymmetry in the social ties among neighboring farmers. We find evidence of spillover effects in farmers’ adoption decisions as well as in farm and farmer characteristics. Our results further highlight the importance of accounting for potentially
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Does short food supply chain participation improve farm economic performance? A meta-analysis Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Pierre Chiaverina, Sophie Drogué, Florence Jacquet, Larry Lev, Robert King
Many researchers, policy makers, and food activists view Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC) as attractive levers for improving farm income and the sustainability of farming systems. However, the empirical evidence documenting the association between SFSC participation and farm economic performance has been mixed. In this study, through a meta-analysis using a logistic regression, we identify key factors
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Distributional heterogeneity in climate change impacts and adaptation: Evidence from Indian agriculture Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Surender Kumar, Madhu Khanna
This study estimates the distributional heterogeneity in the effects of climate change on yields of three major cereal crops: rice, maize, and wheat in India using district-level information for the period 1966–2015. We distinguish between the effects of changes in growing season weather from those due to changes in long-term climate trends and the heterogeneity in these effects across the distribution
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Does private sector involvement improve the distribution efficiency of subsidized fertilizer? A natural experiment from Nepal Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Ganesh Thapa, Yam Kanta Gaihre, Dyutiman Choudhary, Shriniwas Gautam
Despite the government spending significant amounts on fertilizer subsidies, Nepal's average fertilizer application rate is lower than in other South Asian countries. The low application is attributed to poor access to fertilizer and an inefficient distribution system. The government of Nepal issued a “Fertilizer Distribution Directive (FDD) 2020” to improve the distribution system. We assessed the
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Markups, organic agriculture and downstream concentration at the example of European dairy farmers Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Maximilian Koppenberg
A competitive environment, highly concentrated processing and retailing sectors as well as increasing decoupling of direct payments from production volumes and the area under cultivation incentivizes farmers to find alternative ways to improve their bargaining position towards downstream companies. This article explores the possibilities of organic agriculture to enhance the bargaining power of farmers
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Intersectoral labor migration and agriculture in the United States and Japan Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 A. Ford Ramsey, Tadashi Sonoda, Minkyong Ko
In spite of important differences in their agricultural sectors, the past century has seen a significant decline in the number of people employed in agriculture in the U.S. and Japan. Economic models of intersectoral labor migration focus on expected return differentials as the primary cause of migration from one sector to another. Empirical applications typically assume that migration occurs as soon
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Drought shocks and price adjustments in local food markets in Chile: Do product quality and marketing channel matter? Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 César Salazar, Andrés Acuña-Duarte, José Maria Gil
Lately, economies have been facing an increase in the frequency and magnitude of droughts, which come with potential consequences on food prices. This article aims to analyze how drought disturbances affect price differences in local food markets. Special attention is paid to differences in product quality and marketing channels. To study the mechanism behind price differences, our analysis is framed
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But it came from a food pantry: Product stigma and quality perceptions of food pantry offerings Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Anne T. Byrne, David R. Just, Christopher B. Barrett
Among the millions of food insecure people in high income countries, only a modest fraction uses food pantries. Stigma is commonly cited as a barrier to use and may arise due to the perceived low product quality of pantry offerings. This study tests the hypothesis that “product stigma” is present among prospective pantry clients. In an online experimental survey of low-income respondents, we ask participants
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How convergent are rice export prices in the international market? Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Harold Glenn A. Valera, Mark J. Holmes, Valerien O. Pede, Jean Balié
This study revisits the issue of long-term price convergence of rice export prices for India, Pakistan, Thailand, Uruguay, the United States, and Vietnam using a two-stage pairwise unit root testing approach. To deduce evidence or lack of proof of convergence in price series, we also examine convergence using sigma and beta convergence specified in both unconditional and conditional frameworks. The
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Risk effects of GM corn: Evidence from crop insurance outcomes and high-dimensional methods Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Serkan Aglasan, Barry K. Goodwin, Roderick M. Rejesus
This study evaluates whether genetically modified (GM) corn hybrids with rootworm resistant traits (GM-RW) have lower yield risk. A crop insurance actuarial performance measure, the loss cost ratio (LCR), is used to represent yield risk. High-dimensional methods are utilized in this study to maintain parsimony in the empirical specification, and facilitate estimation. Specifically, we employ the Cluster-Lasso
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The following articles for this Special Issue were published before the original collection was released. They can be found in their respective issues Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-21
Vink, N. (2022). Presidential Address to the 31st (virtual) ICAE. African agricultural development: How are we contributing?. Agricultural Economics, 53, 540– 562. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12725
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Price predictors in an extended hedonic regression framework: An application to wholesale cattle markets in Ethiopia Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Fantu Bachewe, Derek Headey, Bart Minten
Livestock markets influence income generation for producers, but also accessibility and affordability of highly nutritious animal-sourced foods for consumers. Despite their importance, the functioning of livestock markets in lower-income countries is poorly understood and rarely studied compared to more developed countries. This study analyzes wholesale cattle markets in Ethiopia using a uniquely rich
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Impact of aquaculture training on farmers’ income: Cluster randomized controlled trial evidence in Ghana Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Catherine Ragasa, Sena Amewu, Seth Koranteng Agyakwah, Emmanuel Tetteh-Doku Mensah, Ruby Asmah
Aquaculture in Ghana is experiencing tremendous growth, led mainly by large-scale commercial cage operators. A major objective of the government and its partners is to ensure that this rapid growth is sustainable and includes small-scale farmers and poor rural producers. This paper evaluates the aquaculture trainings implemented in six main tilapia-producing regions in Ghana as part of the Ghana Tilapia
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Extreme weather events and high Colombian food prices: A non-stationary extreme value approach1 Agricultural Economics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Luis Fernando Melo-Velandia, Camilo Andrés Orozco-Vanegas, Daniel Parra-Amado
Given the importance of climate change and the increase of its severity under extreme weather events, we analyze the main drivers of high food prices in Colombia between 1985 and 2020 focusing on extreme weather shocks like a strong El Niño. We estimate a non-stationary extreme value model for Colombian food prices. Our findings suggest that perishable foods are more exposed to extreme weather conditions