Effects of public and private regulations on wholesale vendors' adoption of agrifood traceability to farms

IF 2.1 3区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agribusiness Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI:10.1002/agr.21910

Jiehong Zhou, Zhiying Yang, Qiao Liang, Weihua Zhou

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Abstract

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 by the government and private regulation by the market platform on wholesale vendors' adoption of traceability are investigated empirically. A unique panel dataset comprising 9287 food safety tests for 396 vendors from a wholesale market is used in the empirical analysis. The results show that vendors behave opportunistically by lowering their level of traceability when they expect a smaller possibility of being sampled. Given the same strength of regulation intensity, the effect of government regulation is larger than that of the market. The experience of failure in recent sampling tests motivates vendors to adopt higher levels of traceability. Recommendations regarding the frequency of food safety sampling tests conducted by the government and wholesale markets are proposed [EconLit Citations: Q18, L53].

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公共和私人法规对批发商采用农场农业食品可追溯性的影响

由于农场规模小且分散，对农场进行农业食品追溯极为困难。幸运的是，在许多发展中国家，批发市场在农业食品系统和上游可追溯性方面发挥着不可替代的作用。本研究首先探讨了与采用农场上游可追溯性相关的食品安全责任机制。然后，实证研究了政府的公共监管和市场平台的私人监管对批发商采用可追溯性的影响。实证分析使用了一个独特的面板数据集，其中包括批发市场 396 个摊贩的 9287 次食品安全检测。结果表明，当商贩预期被抽检的可能性较小时，他们会降低可追溯性水平，从而采取机会主义行为。在监管强度相同的情况下，政府监管的影响大于市场的影响。在最近的抽检中失败的经验促使供应商采用更高水平的可追溯性。对政府和批发市场进行食品安全抽检的频率提出了建议[经济学引文：Q18, L53]。

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Agribusiness 农林科学-食品科技

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5.50

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6.20%

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审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Agribusiness: An International Journal publishes research that improves our understanding of how food systems work, how they are evolving, and how public and/or private actions affect the performance of the global agro-industrial complex. The journal focuses on the application of economic analysis to the organization and performance of firms and markets in industrial food systems. Subject matter areas include supply and demand analysis, industrial organization analysis, price and trade analysis, marketing, finance, and public policy analysis. International, cross-country comparative, and within-country studies are welcome. To facilitate research the journal’s Forum section, on an intermittent basis, offers commentary and reports on business policy issues.