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Consumer acceptance and valuation of quality‐improved food products derived by genome editing technology. A case study of rice in Vietnam Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Nguyen Thi Hao, Seifeddine Ben Taieb, Masahiro Moritaka, Susumu Fukuda
Unlike genetic modification, genome editing (GE) technologies can be used to yield transgene‐free outcomes, which is an important aspect in promoting consumer acceptance of GE foods. In addition, with the advent of the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas9 (CRISPR/Cas9) system, which is known to be exceptional among genome editing tools, GE has numerous potential applications
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The effects of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw returning behavior Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang
Straw returning is important for rural ecological management and sustainable agricultural development. Using farm survey data for Anhui Province, China, in 2020, we applied the double‐hurdle model to investigate the impact of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw‐returning behavior, and to explore the relationship between agricultural machinery self‐service and outsourced
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The impact of access to agricultural advisory services on input use and farm performance: Evidence from Senegal Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Aymeric Ricome, Amy Faye, Cheickh S. Fall, Sergio Gomez‐y‐Paloma
Performant agricultural advisory services (AAS) in Africa are crucial for improving the agricultural productivity and food security of the farm households. Yet, evidence‐based study on the impacts of AAS on farm performance are scarce, especially in West African countries. This study evaluates the impact of access to AAS on input use and farm performance in Senegal, employing the instrumental variable
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Who is willing to pay a premium for leafy greens produced by indoor agriculture? A comparative choice experiment with US consumers Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Joseph Seong, Simone Valle De Souza, April Athnos, H. Christopher Peterson
Indoor agriculture (IA) presents a pathway to producing leafy greens more sustainably by strictly controlling the growing environment, increasing the efficiency of water and land resources use, reducing pesticide application, and enhancing quality characteristics. However, the commercial success of adopting this production method depends on the technology's widespread consumer acceptance paired with
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The impact of the agricultural digital economy on China's agricultural export growth: Examining mechanisms from supply‐ and demand‐side path perspectives Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Yuchen Liu, Yinguo Dong, Hui Zhou
The deep integration of the agricultural digital economy and foreign trade is an important driving force for promoting high–quality economic development. Based on a theoretical analysis of the impact mechanisms of the agricultural digital economy on agricultural exports, this study empirically examines the impact and mechanism of the agricultural digital economy on agricultural exports using Chinese
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Effects of health claims on demand structure and market power: The case of the yogurt market in Japan Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Daum Kim, Kohya Takahashi, Koshi Maeda
This study aims to clarify the effects of health claims on consumer purchasing behavior and market power, using the Japanese yogurt market as a case study. For the analysis, the Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes model was applied for estimations using product‐level purchasing data. The main analysis results are as follows. First, consumers prefer brands with lower prices, higher protein, lower fat, lower
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Rural tourism promotion policy and rural hospitality enterprises performance: Empirical evidence from Japan Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Yessica C. Y. Chung, Motoi Kusadokoro, Hung‐Hao Chang, Yukinobu Kitamura
Increased tourism demand provides an opportunity to boost rural development. This paper examines the impact of rural tourism policy reform on hospitality and restaurant enterprises in rural areas in Japan. In early 2016, the Japanese government introduced a policy to encourage the participation of nonfarm enterprises in the rural hospitality industry. Using a nationally representative dataset of rural
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Differential taxation in agricultural credit market Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Madhav Regmi, Allen M. Featherstone
This study examines whether the market competitiveness of farm loan suppliers is affected by the US tax policy for the farm credit system (FCS) and its potential spillover on the farmers' cost of borrowing. We exploit the variation in the corporate income tax rate to estimate its relationship with the farm debt share of the FCS and the potential spillover effect on the estimated cost of borrowing for
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Measuring specialty crop grower willingness to pay for genetic modification and genetic editing Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Marie Abbey, Alan G. Smith, Chengyan Yue, Corissa Marson, Yufeng Lai, Carrie Stowers
In contrast to the widespread adoption of agricultural commodities modified using biotechnology, the adoption rate of bioengineered specialty crops by growers remains low. The use of bioengineered crops has been controversial since their introduction in the 1990s due to concerns about their potentially harmful effects to human health, the environment, and other socioeconomic issues. To identify grower
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Does the advertising of plant-based burgers attract meat consumers? The influence of new product advertising on consumer responses Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Lingxiao Wang, Wenying Li, Yuqing Zheng
The “meat” marketing of new plant-based burgers distinguished them from traditional vegan burgers, yet it is still unknown if and to what extent this advertising appeals to meat consumers. We employ a novel digital advertisement dataset from Nielsen Ad Intel to investigate the market entry and advertising patterns of the Impossible Burger, one of the leading brands in the plant-based meat market. By
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The impacts of extreme heat on wage losses: Evidence from the Chinese agri-food industry Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Xiaoke Zhu, Qiyun Deng
This paper investigates the effects of extremely high temperatures on wage losses for workers in the Chinese agri-food industry. Our estimated results suggest extreme heat is associated with a decrease in worker wages, and that these welfare losses could be attributed to the adverse impacts of extremely hot days on worker productivity. We also observe that, compared to male workers, female workers
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Agri‐food trade liberalization, export prices, and quality upgrading: Evidence from the meat and chocolate sectors in OECD countries Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Aristide Bonsdaouêndé Valea, Lota D. Tamini, Damien Rousselière
This article examines the impact of trade liberalization on export prices and quality. The article is innovative in two respects. First, unlike previous studies, it considers both input and output tariffs simultaneously in a theoretical model. Second, it empirically tests the effects of a combination of specific and ad‐valorem tariffs on quality improvement. The theoretical analysis suggests that when
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Land consolidation, cropland use, and vegetation productivity Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Alper Demirdogen
Land consolidation represents a valuable tool for enhancing agricultural productivity. However, there is a notable gap in the literature, with few studies effectively estimating the impact of land consolidation on microlevel crop changes. In our study, we estimated how land consolidation affects cropland use and vegetation productivity in Turkey, specifically examining wheat and corn. To analyze microlevel
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Promoting healthy diets through food reformulation: The demand for “better-for-you” beverage Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Pei Zhou, Yizao Liu
This study explores how nutrients, new ingredients, and health claims from product reformulation influence consumer decisions, dietary intake, and population health in the beverage market. We focus on the beverage market in the United States as a case study because of the emerging health demand for “better-for-you” beverage options. We formulate a random coefficient discrete choice model to evaluate
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Reformulation of processed foods: Mixed effects on salt and saturated fatty acids intake in France Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Marine Spiteri, Ghislaine Narayanane, Vincent Réquillart, Louis-Georges Soler
Encouraging the food industry to reformulate their products is a possible public intervention to improve diet quality. In this paper, we assess the impact of food reformulation on per capita salt and saturated fatty acids (SFAs) intake, in France, for four product categories, namely, potato chips, fresh pizzas, frozen pizzas, and frozen meals, taking into account the changes in products' nutritional
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Role of social network in fostering consumers' omni-channel purchasing behavior towards infant milk powder retailers Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Qingjie Zhou, Mingyue Du, Jiangyuan Hou
Social network plays an essential role in the consumers' omni-channel purchasing behaviors (OPBs). In this context, this research delves into two questions. First, do consumers make the omni-channel purchase decision of infant milk powder via social network? Second, which social network do consumers prefer about the different buying channel? To solve these problems, employing the Berry–Levinson–Pakes
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State labeling's impact on geographic boundaries of local Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Kathryn Fife, William Secor, Benjamin Campbell
Local labeling is an important issue within the horticultural industry as many producers have devoted considerable resources to advertising their products as local. Further, all states have implemented some form of local labeling program to increase local purchasing. As states expand the reach of these programs, the programs begin to compete as awareness and perception move across state lines. Using
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Introduction to Agribusiness special issue: Economics of food reformulation Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Christian Rojas, Edward Jaenicke
We provide an introduction to the Special Issue on the Economics of Food Reformulation.
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Are food manufacturers reducing sugar content? Evidence from scanner data Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Ezgi Cengiz, Christian Rojas
Reductions in sugar intake are at the center of policy discussions to improve health. In this article, we use barcode-level nutrition and sales data on the near-universe of all packaged food products in the United States over 2007–2015 to investigate whether food manufacturers have reduced added sugar in their product offerings and whether these reformulations have played a role on consumers' sugar
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Heterogeneous preferences and consumer willingness to pay for vitamin D fortification of eggs Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Francisco J. Areal, Daniele Asioli
Food reformulation can contribute to achieve public health objectives by facilitating access to healthy and sustainable food choices to consumers. Vitamin D is an important micronutrient that contributes to calcium absorption and bone health. Low vitamin D levels may lead to having a higher risk of poor bone and muscle for human health. In this manuscript we investigated, for the first time, United
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Can health trump taste? Implicit and explicit attitudes toward sugar-reduction claims and their differentiated impact on purchase intention for cereals Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Christina M. Neubig, Matthias Staudigel, Jutta Roosen
This study investigates the implicit and explicit health–taste tradeoffs that consumers make in response to sugar-reduction claims on chocolate cereals. We collect implicit measures through an Implicit Association Test, explicit perceptions of health and taste properties, and statements regarding product liking and purchase intention through a questionnaire. Based on a path analysis, we assess the
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US consumer preferences and attitudes toward seaweed and value-added products Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Qiujie Zheng, Christopher V. Davis, Anne Langston Noll, Raymond Bernier, Randy Labbe
Food reformulation and the introduction of novel sources of nutrition are considered potential strategies to address poor nutrition and public health issues. Seaweed, a novel food in Western cuisine, is gaining popularity, and seaweed farming in the United States is an emerging and fast-growing aquaculture segment. This paper provides a comprehensive understanding of US consumers' preferences and attitudes
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Estimating potential gains from agricultural cooperative mergers Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Eric Ofori, Elizabeth A. Yeager, Brian C. Briggeman
This study uses an ex ante data envelopment analysis approach to examine potential gains that US agricultural cooperatives may accrue from mergers. Empirical estimations utilize data from CoBank, a lender to cooperatives, consisting of 749 midwestern agricultural cooperative observations from 2011 to 2015. Potential overall merger effects are decomposed into learning effects, scope effects, and scale
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Acreage and farm investments decisions amidst uncertainty: A case study of rural India Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Kayode Ajewole, Ashok K. Mishra, Alexis Villacis
This study provides evidence-based information on the impact of the pandemic lockdown and other COVID-19-related policies on Indian rural households' decisions on-farm investments and operations (planting and borrowing decisions). The study uses the World Bank's (2021) high-frequency rural household-level survey across six states of India for the 2020 Kharif crop season. Our analyses also show that
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Factors affecting Chinese consumers' beef purchase frequency Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Bhishma R. Dahal, Karen L. DeLong, Shijun Gao, Carola Grebitus, Andrew Muhammad
China is an emerging beef market and per capita consumption of beef increased by 48% in the past decade. Given the importance of the Chinese beef market to domestic beef producers as well as foreign beef exporters, we evaluated the factors associated with how often Chinese consumers purchase beef. Using a 2021 survey of 560 beef consumers in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, we found
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Misconceptions and meat: The impact of new knowledge on meat demand Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ruoye Yang, Kellie Curry Raper
Food labeling is intended to clarify information for consumers, yet sometimes labeling can be misleading. This study examines US consumer choice for labeled and unlabeled products across meat animal species in which differing regulations exist by species regarding hormone use in production and where consumer perception of hormone use by species varies. In the case of hormone use in US meat animal production
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From sweet tooth to healthy choices: How Chilean food policies are changing household diets Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Grace Melo, Laura Chomali, Ariun Ishdorj
Using data from a nationally representative household survey, this study investigates whether changes in food-at-home (FAH) purchases occurred following the introduction, modification, and implementation of the Chilean food labeling and marketing regulations. This study further examines whether changes in sugar, sodium, saturated fat, or calorie intake occurred. The results provide evidence of some
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Effects of public and private regulations on wholesale vendors' adoption of agrifood traceability to farms Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Jiehong Zhou, Zhiying Yang, Qiao Liang, Weihua Zhou
Agrifood traceability of farms is extremely difficult owing to the small scale and dispersibility of farms. Fortunately, wholesale markets play an irreplaceable role in agrifood systems and in upstream traceability in many developing countries. This study first explores the mechanism of food safety liabilities related to the adoption of upstream traceability to farms. Then, the effects of public regulation
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The impact of warehouse services on spatial and intra-temporal agricultural market integration: The case of the Ethiopian commodity exchange's warehouse services Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Yohannis Mulu Tessema, Derek Baker
The Ethiopian commodity exchange market (ECX) was launched in 2008, and since then it has rolled out warehouse services for various commodities in different markets. In this study, our objective is to examine the effect of ECX's warehouse services on spatial and intra-temporal integration of agricultural markets. To this effect, we apply the difference-in-difference approach on monthly retail price
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Asymmetric price transmission in perishable crops value chain: A NARDL approach Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Purushottam Sharma, Dinesh Chand Meena, Md. Ejaz Anwer
Policymakers and economists envisage effective price transmission across markets or stakeholders in supply chains as a vital contributor to market efficiency. The paper explores the vertical price transmission in the perishables supply chain in India using weekly data on farm, wholesale and retail prices collected from main production and consumption markets. We estimate the asymmetries in price transmission
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Salmon trade duration: The application of firm-level trade transaction data from the Norwegian salmon industry Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, Ulf Johansen, Maitri Thakur, Thomas Glauben
Seafood products are mainly provided through trade to international markets and Norway is the major international player for the export of salmon products. It is argued that fresh or chilled salmon, which are perishable products and Norway's main seafood export, need stable trade partners to safely and properly reach consumption markets. In this study, the firm-to-firm level trade transactional data
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Analysing determinate components of an approximated Luenberger–Hicks–Moorsteen productivity indicator: An application to German dairy-processing firms Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Frederic Ang, Stephen J. Ramsden
The Luenberger–Hicks–Moorsteen (LHM) total factor productivity (TFP) indicator has sound theoretical properties, but its decomposition yields indeterminate components of technical change and scale efficiency change that can become infeasible. The current paper decomposes the approximating Bennet indicator, which results in determinate components of technical change, technical efficiency change, scale
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Trends in sustainability claims and labels for newly introduced food products across selected European countries Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Kjersti Nes, Federico Antonioli, Pavel Ciaian
The European Union (EU) farm-to-fork strategy aims to empower consumers to make sustainable food choices, among others, through harmonizing voluntary green claims and labels and potentially introducing a common sustainable claims and labels framework for food products. The literature on the current use of sustainability claims and labels (SCLs) in the EU market is scarce. This paper analyzes the trend
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Promoting eco-labeled food consumption in China: The role of information Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Rao Yuan, Shaosheng Jin, Lin Zhou, Hsiaoping Chien, Wenchao Wu
Consumers usually have little knowledge about eco-labels, and eco-labeled foods are still relatively uncommon. This study explores whether providing information about eco-labels can improve consumers’ valuations of eco-labeled foods. We tested three types of information—selfish (health related), altruistic (environment related), and combined (both)—and used a sample of 4523 Chinese consumers. Our results
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Multiple roles of agricultural cooperatives in improving farm technical efficiency: A case study of rural Gansu, China Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Xinyi Li, Junichi Ito
The establishment of agricultural cooperatives is widely viewed as an institutional arrangement to remove constraints that prevent smallholders from accessing profitable business opportunities in agriculture. Agricultural cooperatives in China offer a wide range of services within the framework of contract farming and vertical integration. This study empirically examines the multiple roles of China's
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The financial impact of foodborne illness outbreaks at restaurants: Chipotle Mexican Grill Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Brenna Ellison, Maria Teresa Serra Devesa
As demand for food away from home increases, outbreaks at restaurants become an important source of food-related illness. In the United States, over 60% of foodborne illness outbreaks occur at restaurants and 97% of outbreaks are limited to a single state. Despite this, we currently know little about restaurant outbreaks and in particular, single-state outbreaks are not well understood. We use Chipotle
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Identifying key sectors of sustainable development: A Bayesian framework estimating policy-impacts in a general equilibrium Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Johannes Ziesmer
Transformation of the previous centrally growth-oriented economic systems to a sustainable bio-economy is a global political trend, where public policy is a key factor in making this successful. Designing effective and efficient policies requires understanding the linkages between policy choices and outcomes. Most existing studies are missing a direct link to policy choices and ignore fundamental model
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Covid-19 and agricultural labor supply: Evidence from the rural–urban interface of an Indian mega-city Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Verena Preusse, Manuel Santos Silva, Linda Steinhübel, Meike Wollni
This paper examines how India's national lockdown (March 25–May 31, 2020), in response to the spread of Covid-19, affected the on-farm family labor supply of 351 farm households in the rural–urban interface of Bangalore. We combine face-to-face survey data collected just before the start of the lockdown with phone survey data collected during the last 2 weeks of the lockdown. We find that 66% of farm
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Survey based assessment of sustainable agricultural practices: Evidence from Indian plots Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Beata Itin-Shwartz
In recent years concerns have been raised regarding the environmental consequences of over-use of nitrogen fertilizers on a global level. However, the balance between sustainability and agricultural productivity, a central concern for policy makers in developing countries, has not been sufficiently addressed. In this paper, I evaluate farmers’ fertilization practices and their effect on yield using
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The future of research on sustainable food systems: Building an early-career network of agricultural economists in Europe Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Tobias Dalhaus, Linda Steinhübel, Bernhard Dalheimer, Liesbeth Colen
The agricultural economics profession plays an essential role in the transition towards more sustainable and resilient food systems. The interdisciplinary perspective of the profession, the rapidly evolving methods and new data, as well as the diverse agricultural, climatic, and political and cultural landscapes of the European Union member states and associated countries pose specific challenges.
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Unraveling Turkish agricultural market challenges: Consequences of COVID-19, Russia–Ukraine conflict, and energy market dynamics Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Faruk Urak
For a significant global segment, the volatility in grain prices presents a substantial menace to food accessibility and security. In the global pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine conflict (RUW), numerous nations were caught off guard, exacerbating this predicament and leading to instances where citizens faced purchasing restrictions on sunflower oil. This study employs the VAR (1)-Asymmetric BEKK-Generalized
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Nourishing the farms, nourishing the plates: Association of climate-smart agricultural practices with household dietary diversity and food security in smallholders Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Simone Santalucia, Kibrom T. Sibhatu
Climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices are increasingly being promoted as nature-based solutions to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farm households amid a sharp increase in climate-change anomalies. However, the extent to which CSA practices contribute to smallholder food security and dietary diversity remains unclear. In this study, we use panel and nationally representative data from Tanzania
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An analysis of educational mismatch on wages in the agroindustrial sector Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Elena Lasso-Dela-Vega, Juan A. Campos-Soria, Alejandro García-Pozo
The food industry is one of the most important industries in developed economies. The progressive professionalization of its workforce and the persistent demand for low-skilled employment in this sector may be leading to educational mismatch with its concomitant effects on wages and productivity. Yet the economic literature has not addressed wage structures, gender differences, and the composition
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US agricultural exports and the 2022 Mississippi River drought Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Sandro Steinbach, Xiting Zhuang
This paper investigates the impact of the 2022 Mississippi River drought on agricultural trade using counterfactual evaluation methods and detailed trade data at the US port level. The study examines how the drought disrupted agricultural shipments out of Louisiana ports and whether the disruption led to trade diversion to other ports. Our findings reveal that shipments out of Louisiana ports were
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Exploring the role of interest rates, macroeconomic environment, agricultural cycle, and gender on loan demand in the agricultural sector: Evidence from Mali Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
Formal credit plays an important role for the development of the agriculture sector in developing countries because many farmers are characterized as liquidity constrained. Access to credit can increase farmers' purchasing power for inputs and agricultural technology, thus raising the overall productivity. Farmers in Mali are particularly vulnerable to shocks, such as heavy precipitation events. Access
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Examining the impact of trading volume on liquidity and prices in China's soybean complex Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Yuanyuan Xu, Jian Li, Linjie Wang, Xiaoli Etienne
This paper presents liquidity measures in high resolution and investigates the impact of trading volume on market liquidity and prices in China's soybean complex markets. We document a U-shaped distribution of volume and spreads over the course of a trading day. Quantile regression results show that trading volume tends to tighten bid-ask spreads but widen spreads in the lower tail. We further find
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Could trust narrow the intention-behavior gap in eco-friendly food consumption? Evidence from China Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Rao Yuan, Shaosheng Jin, Wen Lin
There exists a potential gap between individual intention to purchase eco-products and their actual purchase behaviors, which contributes to low eco-friendly consumption. The study investigates the intention-behavior gap in eco-friendly food consumption, and how consumer trust affects the gap. We focus on consumer trust in eco-friendly food regulator, manufacturer, certifier, and farmer. Evidence from
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Does crop insurance ensure food security for Indian farmers? Evidence from a nationally representative survey Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Nusrat Akber, Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh, Ashok K. Mishra
This study examines the impact of farm households' decision to adopt crop insurance and its effect on food security. Using the National Sample Survey Office's 77th round of data (2019–2020) from Indian farming households, the endogenous switching regression results confirm that insuring crops against production risks increases food security (as measured by higher consumption expenditures and net farm
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Neighborhood effect, virtual social networks, and farmers' social e-commerce participation behavior Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Chan Wang, Xiao Wu, Tinggui Chen
The development of social e-commerce can integrate the production, circulation, and sales of agricultural products; realize the digitalization of the agricultural production process; and promote farmers' savings and profits. On the basis of the stimulus–organism–response theory and the embedding theories, microsurvey data of 302 farmers regarding the winter jujube production area of the Dali facility
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Not the priciest, but the best quality: A new interpretation of high import food price in China Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Lin Sun, Qiaoyun Fang, Zhaofang Ni, Michael R. Reed
Against the background of rapid increases in food imports, high food import prices have become an important issue for China. This paper first establishes the theoretical relationship between per capita income and import price, then uses a panel data fixed effect model and an instrumental variable estimation based on highly disaggregated firm-level import data from the General Administration of Customs
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Examining environmental proactivity in the Spanish wine industry: The moderating role of size Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Marcos Carchano, Inmaculada Carrasco, Angela González
The value of proactive environmental strategies to achieve and maintain competitive advantages in the business sphere has been widely acknowledged in recent years. However, mixed results can still be found regarding the determinants and consequences of the implementation of such practices. This study investigates the determinants of environmental proactivity in Spanish wineries, focusing on the role
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Identification and assessment of supply chain risks: The case of food hubs Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Tatevik Avetisyan Artoonian, R. Brent Ross, Robert S. Shupp
The supply chain risk management literature highlights the importance of ex-ante identification and assessment of risks to ensure continuity of firms, in particular, and the high performance of supply chains in which they operate, in general. Supply chain disruptions are harmful and costly for firms. The risk of such disruptions can be particularly consequential for firms in emerging industries that
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Determinants of municipal-level household food waste Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Wen-Shuenn Deng, Yi-Chen Lin
This research investigates the long-run determinants of per capita food waste, using a monthly time series dataset collected from the Taipei City Food Scraps Recycling Program, covering a span of 19 years. In addition, this research introduces a new proxy for the food wastage rate, gauged by the ratio of edible-to-inedible food scraps. The results of time-series cointegration analysis show that per
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Predicting acquirers of US food and agribusiness firms Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Ramyani Mukhopadhyay, Adesoji O. Adelaja
To fill an important gap in the literature on acquirer prediction, this paper investigates which factors contribute to the likelihood that a firm will choose to acquire a target company from the United States (US) food and agribusiness industry (FABI). It relies on existing literature and a conceptual model in identifying the determinants of the choice to be an acquirer. Rejecting the pooled ordinary
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Consumers' intention to adopt plant-based meat Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Nai-Hua Chen, Meng-Hua Tsai
The consumption of plant-based meat is increasing, reflecting consumers' concerns about health, animal welfare, the environment, and sustainability. However, plant-based meat consumption remains low owing to the barriers to shifting consumers to this nonmeat diet. We evaluate consumers' intentions to consume plant-based meat from the perspectives of exploratory behavior and the regulatory focus theory
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Investigating trends in consumer preferences and willingness to pay for lamb and goat meat: A case study from Florida Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Wyatt Basen, John Lai, Bachir Kassas, Marcelo Wallau
Considering the growing demand for healthy and environmentally conscious food products in the United States, lamb and goat meat have proved to be beneficial alternatives to other red meats. This study investigates consumer trends and preferences for lamb and goat meat in Florida and sheds light on regional preferences for these products, providing groundwork for further studies. An online survey was
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Multinational enterprises and local firms’ export market entry: A panel data analysis of Vietnam's food processing industry Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Dao T. H. Nguyen, Ari Kokko, Thong T. Nguyen
This study develops new insights into the spillover effects of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local firms’ export market entry, using the case of Vietnam—a notable global manufacturing hub located in Southeast Asia. The empirical analysis is based on a disaggregated firm-level panel dataset of 25,032 observations of Vietnamese food processing firms during the period 2011–2016. The food
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Disclosing dual manufacturers on private brands: Does it change quality and image pereception between national and private label brands? Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Samanta Pérez-Santamaría, Mercedes Martos-Partal
Dual manufacturers produce both their own brands and private label brands (PLs). Disclosing these manufacturers on PL packaging might exert quality and brand image effects, which could influence the perception differentials between national brands (NBs) and PLs. An experiment identifies moderating effects for these differentials, according to the NB image positioning (high and low) and the type of
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Revisiting biodiesel hedging Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Jason R. V. Franken, Scott H. Irwin
Previous research found that both soybean oil and heating oil futures should be used to hedge biodiesel price risk. This was sensible because blending mandates caused biodiesel prices to be driven by that of its primary input—soybean oil. Much has changed in recent years, with plummeting demand during the coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic, biodiesel plants struggling to break-even in 2020, and then
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Weight gains from multinational fast-food restaurants: Evidence from China Agribusiness (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Faqin Lin, Rui Wang, Yutong Lv, Feng Kuo
This study examines the obesity effect of proximity to US fast-food restaurants (Kentucky Fried Chicken [KFC] or McDonald) on Chinese. We first provide some stylized facts and raise the hypothesis that proximity to KFC or McDonald increases overweight. We then put the hypothesis into a test using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data. Exploiting community (district in urban area and village unit