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The impact of heat waves on food industry productivity: Firm-level evidence from Italy 热浪对食品工业生产率的影响：意大利企业层面的证据

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12608

Paolo Nota, Daniele Curzi, Oliver Ken Haase, Alessandro Olper

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Crop diversification and the effect of weather shocks on Italian farmers' income and income risk 作物多样化以及天气冲击对意大利农民收入和收入风险的影响

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-19 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12610

Charlotte Fabri, Sam Vermeulen, Steven Van Passel, Sergei Schaub

{"title":"Crop diversification and the effect of weather shocks on Italian farmers' income and income risk","authors":"Charlotte Fabri, Sam Vermeulen, Steven Van Passel, Sergei Schaub","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12610","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12610","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture is vulnerable to extreme weather shocks. Climate change increases both the frequency and the intensity of such shocks. To safeguard farmers' income and food production, climate adaptation measures are required. This article aims to examine the effectiveness of crop diversification as an adaptation measure, using Italy as a case study. We apply a control function approach to a panel dataset of 20,790 Italian farms, which considers (i) the crop diversification decision and (ii) the influence of crop diversification on farmers' levels of crop income and income risk. We find that, while specialisation can increase income, crop diversification reduces income risk most effectively when growing four different crops. At this level of diversification, income risk is approximately 29% lower as opposed to monoculture farming. Although the Common Agricultural Policy's greening payments for crop diversification make sense from an ecological and risk-reducing point of view, we find that they are potentially insufficient to cover the loss of expected crop income from diversification. While crop diversification reduces income risk in general, we find no specific benefit in terms of weather shock-induced risks. This may be because a price increase following a weather shock buffers its adverse effect. However, identifying the reasons requires further research.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 3","pages":"955-980"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141448431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unlocking rural resilience: Exploring innovative digital saving solutions for farming households in Mali 释放农村的复原力：探索马里农户的创新数字储蓄解决方案

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12609

Annkathrin Wahbi, Oliver Musshoff

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What does terroir mean? A science mapping of a multidimensional concept 风土意味着什么？多维概念的科学图谱

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-16 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12607

David Moroz

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Understanding dairy farmers' trade-offs between environmental, social and economic sustainability attributes in feeding systems: The role of farmers' identities 了解奶农在饲喂系统的环境、社会和经济可持续性属性之间的权衡：奶农身份的作用

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12588

Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Helena Hansson

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Does land consolidation promote livestock production and combat rural depopulation in northern Spain? 在西班牙北部，土地整合是否能促进畜牧业生产并消除农村人口减少现象？

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12587

Luis Orea, José A. Pérez-Méndez, Inmaculada Álvarez

{"title":"Does land consolidation promote livestock production and combat rural depopulation in northern Spain?","authors":"Luis Orea, José A. Pérez-Méndez, Inmaculada Álvarez","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12587","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12587","url":null,"abstract":"This paper evaluates the effect on livestock production and rural population of the land consolidation (LC) processes that occurred over recent decades in Asturias, an autonomous region located in north-west Spain. We use a novel Difference-in-Difference (DiD) model which allows for multiple LCs at different points in time and for spatial spill-overs. As many parishes have been involved in two or more LC processes, we test whether we can simplify our analysis using a specification for these parishes that accumulates the effect of consecutive, and often distant, LC processes. We find that this simplification can be implemented when we analyse the effect of the LC processes on parishes' livestock production, but not when we examine their effects on parish population. We find that parish livestock production increases on average by about 3% once we take into account spatial effects, and that LC processes have especially attenuated the decline in the number of farms in (coastal) parishes where dairy farms predominate. We do not find strong evidence regarding the effectiveness of LC processes in redressing rural depopulation, except in some of the parishes located in western Asturias.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 3","pages":"847-868"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.12587","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140954628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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JAE 2023: Report of the Editor-in-Chief JAE 2023：主编报告

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12586

Jonathan Brooks

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Gender gaps in the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa 采用气候智能型农业做法方面的性别差距：撒哈拉以南非洲的证据

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12583

Abebe Hailemariam, Jaslin Kalsi, Astghik Mavisakalyan

{"title":"Gender gaps in the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Abebe Hailemariam, Jaslin Kalsi, Astghik Mavisakalyan","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12583","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12583","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we examine whether there are significant gender differences in the adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices in sub-Saharan Africa. Using individual-level data from four sites in Kenya, Uganda and Senegal, our empirical analysis provides robust evidence that men have a higher likelihood of adopting high-return CSA practices including modern chemical fertiliser, improved high-yielding varieties and drought/pest tolerant livestock practices. In contrast, women tend to have a higher likelihood of adopting low-risk and low-return traditional CSA practices such as water harvesting, crop covering, rangeland management and pest management. Our subsample analysis shows significant heterogeneity in the gender gap across countries. The results of the decomposition of the observed gender gap show that personal values and norms, access to weather and production information and farm characteristics are important factors that explain the gender differential in the likelihood of CSA adoption. Our findings imply that equalising access to key resources such as plots of land, information and decision making power will be crucial to close the gender gap in the adoption of CSA practices. This is particularly important given the differential impacts of climate change between men and women in sub-Saharan Africa.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 2","pages":"764-793"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.12583","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140890408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Farmer-friendly delivery of veterinary services: Experimental insights from the Kenyan dairy sector 方便农民的兽医服务：肯尼亚奶业的实验启示

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12585

Kevin W. Maina, Martin C. Parlasca, Elizaphan J. O. Rao, Matin Qaim

{"title":"Farmer-friendly delivery of veterinary services: Experimental insights from the Kenyan dairy sector","authors":"Kevin W. Maina, Martin C. Parlasca, Elizaphan J. O. Rao, Matin Qaim","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12585","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12585","url":null,"abstract":"Poor health conditions of livestock cause sizeable losses for many farmers in the Global South. Veterinary services, including vaccinations, could help but often fail to reach farmers under typical smallholder conditions. Here, we examine how the provision of a vaccine against East Coast Fever (ECF)—a tick-borne disease affecting cattle in Africa—can be designed to reduce typical adoption barriers. Using data from a choice experiment with dairy farmers in Kenya, we evaluate farmers' preferences and willingness to pay for various institutional innovations in vaccine delivery, such as a stronger role of dairy cooperatives, new payment modalities with a check-off system, vaccination at farmers' homestead, and bundling vaccinations with discounts for livestock insurance. Our data reveal that farmers' awareness of the ECF vaccine is limited and adoption rates are low, largely due to institutional constraints. Results from mixed logit and latent class models suggest that suitable institutional innovations—tailored to farmers' heterogeneous conditions—could significantly increase adoption. This general finding likely also holds for other veterinary technologies and services in the Global South.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 3","pages":"829-846"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.12585","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140821532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Are farm input subsidies a disincentive for integrated pest management adoption? Evidence from Zambia 农业投入补贴是否不利于采用病虫害综合防治？赞比亚的证据

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12582

Justice A. Tambo, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie

{"title":"Are farm input subsidies a disincentive for integrated pest management adoption? Evidence from Zambia","authors":"Justice A. Tambo, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12582","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12582","url":null,"abstract":"Input subsidy programmes (ISPs) remain a popular but contentious policy tool to promote agricultural intensification, food security and poverty reduction across Africa. Although previous studies have explored the impact of ISPs on various smallholder outcomes, no studies have analysed the impact of recent ISPs on pest management. This is particularly important given the increasing pest challenges due to climate change and the recent surge in pesticide use in low-income countries and its associated negative consequences for human and environmental health. Thus, this study assessed the effects of ISPs on smallholder adoption of sustainable pest management practices, using data from 1048 smallholder maize plots across major maize-producing zones of Zambia and a control function regression approach. We find consistent evidence that input subsidy receipt is negatively associated with smallholders' adoption of environmentally friendly and sustainable pest management strategies. Participation in the Zambia ISP (particularly the flexible e-voucher system) encourages synthetic pesticide use, at the expense of sustainable practices. We also find that farmers consider synthetic pesticides and biopesticides as substitutes and are more likely to adopt sustainable pest management when they have tenure security and access to financial resources. Given the human and environmental health consequences associated with synthetic pesticide use, it would be important to leverage input subsidy schemes to promote the adoption of safer and more sustainable alternatives to synthetic pesticides. Beyond input subsidies, policies that improve tenure security and financial access for smallholders can promote the adoption of sustainable pest management practices.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 2","pages":"740-763"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.12582","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140642650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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