Adoption of food safety measures: The role of bargaining and processing producer organizations

Q1 Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.njas.2020.100337

Mercy Mwambi , Jos Bijman , Patience Mshenga , Simon Oosting

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Abstract

Increasing demand for safe food in developing countries entails meeting stringent food safety requirements. Food retailers and regulatory bodies impose food safety measures related to production and handling of farm produce. For smallholders to remain competitive in such a system, institutional arrangements are necessary. We examine the role of producer organizations (POs) in influencing safe food production behaviours among farmers. Using data from 11 expert interviews and a quantitative survey involving 595 smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya, a propensity score matching estimation is employed to assess membership effects. We show that membership in POs positively and significantly influences smallholders’ adoption of food safety measures related to milk storage and the milking area. We highlight the importance of social incentives in improving food safety adoption among farmers even when price incentives are absent. Our recommendation is that PO policies that alleviate barriers to food safety adoption among farmers will be helpful in scaling up adoption.

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食品安全措施的采纳:议价和加工生产者组织的作用

发展中国家对安全食品的需求不断增加，需要满足严格的食品安全要求。食品零售商和监管机构对农产品的生产和处理实施食品安全措施。要使小农在这种制度中保持竞争力，就必须作出制度安排。我们研究了生产者组织(POs)在影响农民安全食品生产行为中的作用。利用11位专家访谈和一项涉及肯尼亚595名小奶农的定量调查的数据，采用倾向得分匹配估计来评估会员效应。我们发现，POs的成员资格对小农采取与牛奶储存和挤奶面积相关的食品安全措施产生了积极而显著的影响。我们强调，即使在缺乏价格激励的情况下，社会激励对提高农民对食品安全的接受程度也很重要。我们的建议是，减轻农民采用食品安全的障碍的PO政策将有助于扩大采用。

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Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 农林科学-农业综合

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期刊介绍： The NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, published since 1952, is the quarterly journal of the Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences. NJAS aspires to be the main scientific platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on complex and persistent problems in agricultural production, food and nutrition security and natural resource management. The societal and technical challenges in these domains require research integrating scientific disciplines and finding novel combinations of methodologies and conceptual frameworks. Moreover, the composite nature of these problems and challenges fits transdisciplinary research approaches embedded in constructive interactions with policy and practice and crossing the boundaries between science and society. Engaging with societal debate and creating decision space is an important task of research about the diverse impacts of novel agri-food technologies or policies. The international nature of food and nutrition security (e.g. global value chains, standardisation, trade), environmental problems (e.g. climate change or competing claims on natural resources), and risks related to agriculture (e.g. the spread of plant and animal diseases) challenges researchers to focus not only on lower levels of aggregation, but certainly to use interdisciplinary research to unravel linkages between scales or to analyse dynamics at higher levels of aggregation. NJAS recognises that the widely acknowledged need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, also increasingly expressed by policy makers and practitioners, needs a platform for creative researchers and out-of-the-box thinking in the domains of agriculture, food and environment. The journal aims to offer space for grounded, critical, and open discussions that advance the development and application of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research methodologies in the agricultural and life sciences.