{"title":"COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Socio-Economic Status, Agriculture, Livelihood, Food Security and Nutrition: Case of Myanmar","authors":"","doi":"10.56669/zqve6537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56669/zqve6537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137922,"journal":{"name":"FFTC Journal of Agricultural Policy","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122491306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policy Response to COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia","authors":"","doi":"10.56669/zhvb6159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56669/zhvb6159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137922,"journal":{"name":"FFTC Journal of Agricultural Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129589116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19 and the New Normal Food Consumption in Thailand","authors":"","doi":"10.56669/dela3861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56669/dela3861","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137922,"journal":{"name":"FFTC Journal of Agricultural Policy","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125448642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thriving Accelerators for Smart Agriculture in Taiwan during COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"","doi":"10.56669/ipxg9783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56669/ipxg9783","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137922,"journal":{"name":"FFTC Journal of Agricultural Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129310048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Production and Consumption in Germany - A Preliminary Assessment","authors":"","doi":"10.56669/mcjb3455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56669/mcjb3455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137922,"journal":{"name":"FFTC Journal of Agricultural Policy","volume":"17-18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125685048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of COVID-19 on Food Consumption and Dietary Behavior in South Korea","authors":"","doi":"10.56669/fgpq4980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56669/fgpq4980","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137922,"journal":{"name":"FFTC Journal of Agricultural Policy","volume":"14 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128430005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Agricultural E-commerce in Thailand","authors":"","doi":"10.56669/otdt7194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56669/otdt7194","url":null,"abstract":"As Thailand continues to move towards digital transformation, the e-commerce for the agriculture sector has gradually emerged. Digital platforms can enable farmers to overcome agricultural problems throughout the value chain from upstream to downstream. Smallholder farmers and SMEs can sell agricultural products directly to e-commerce service providers, retailers, and consumers, leading to increased efficiency of the agri-food supply chain and generating greater revenue, as well as a better connection between buyers and sellers. The B2C and C2C e-commerce platforms are prominent business models for agricultural products. The market value of agricultural e-commerce mainly contributed from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) where social commerce (i.e. Facebook, LINE, and Instagram) and e-marketplace were top preferred market channels. Agricultural e-commerce service providers can be a direct positive influence on driving digital adoption among farmers. The government pushed the shift in the agricultural sector toward digital channel with “Thailand 4.0” policy, and national digital economy and society development plan which provided support on the development of digital platform and digital marketing skills on SMEs and farmers, as well as, improved the digital infrastructure and built the digital network in the rural area. To shift traditional commerce toward e-commerce in agricultural market, building digital ecosystem and entrepreneurship environment, as well as enhancing farmers and SMEs to adopt digital channels are suggested.","PeriodicalId":137922,"journal":{"name":"FFTC Journal of Agricultural Policy","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114553462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Production and Marketing Activities of Contract and Non-contract Sesame Farmers in Aunglan Township, Magway Region","authors":"","doi":"10.56669/ydgx2475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56669/ydgx2475","url":null,"abstract":"Sesame is mainly grown in the central dry zone of Myanmar, in which, Magway Region occupied the largest sesame sown area for many years. Following the “Informal model” contract agreement among sesame farmers and buyers are practiced in Aunglan Township, Magway Region. This study aimed to explore the production and marketing performances of sesame farmers under contract and non-contract systems in the study area. By using purposive random sampling procedure, a total of 102 sesame farmers in Aunglan Township were interviewed by using structured questionnaires during November and December, 2017. Descriptive statistics and cost and return analysis were applied in this study. These findings indicated that contract farmers were younger and had less farming experiences as compared to non-contract farmers. Contract farmers received credit and market information from more diverse sources and more participated in training, meeting and field demonstration which were mostly related to sesame production practices in comparison with non-contract farmers. Production cost of sesame by contract farmers was higher as compared to non-contract farmers due to their higher usage of farm yard manure, compound fertilizers, gypsum and fungicide. However, it did not affect their returns because contract farmers received better sesame yield in comparison with non-contract farmers. Climate change, labor scarcity, unstable price and high input cost were major constraints for rain-fed dependent sesame farmers. There was still lack of advanced technology in quality checking, grading, thus, technology investment is crucially needed for producing good quality seeds. Sesame farmers should pay attention not only to quality improvement but also to overcoming current constraints along the supply chain. Overall performance in sesame production and marketing of contract farmers showed better in comparison with their counterparts even though current practicing contract system is needed to be systematically organized by learning experiences of other success stories.","PeriodicalId":137922,"journal":{"name":"FFTC Journal of Agricultural Policy","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122302830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Trade Policies to Ensure Agricultural Export Growth in Vietnam in post COVID-19","authors":"","doi":"10.56669/mrqh6418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56669/mrqh6418","url":null,"abstract":"The year 2018 is a successful year in Vietnam's agricultural exports. Despite declining world market prices of many industrial crops and increasing requirements in food safety, Vietnam's agricultural export value still grows strongly, and has reached a record of US$40.02 billion in 2018. This is a record export turnover of Vietnam's agricultural sector, affirming its position in agricultural exports, which is at its second highest in Southeast Asia and ranks 13th in the world. In the last 10 years, 2008-2018, the total export value of Vietnam’s agricultural sector has reached US$302 billion, with annual growth rate averaged 9.24 % (Mard, 2019).","PeriodicalId":137922,"journal":{"name":"FFTC Journal of Agricultural Policy","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130896937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}