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Can information constraints explain the low efficiency in premium quality rice cultivation? Evidence from smallholder farmers in Bangladesh 信息限制能否解释优质水稻种植效率低下的原因？来自孟加拉国小农的证据

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-04-18 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12577

Christoph Kubitza, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil, Ishika Gupta, Timothy J. Krupnik

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Digital opportunities for the distribution of index-based microinsurance: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Mali 基于指数的小额保险分销的数字机遇：马里离散选择实验的证据

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12584

Ella Kirchner, Oliver Musshoff

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Potential impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy's Income Stabilisation Tool on farmers' incomes and crop diversity: A French case study 共同农业政策的收入稳定工具对农民收入和作物多样性的潜在影响：法国案例研究

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12581

Kamel Louhichi, Daël Merisier

{"title":"Potential impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy's Income Stabilisation Tool on farmers' incomes and crop diversity: A French case study","authors":"Kamel Louhichi, Daël Merisier","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12581","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12581","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the potential impacts of a hypothetical implementation of the Income Stabilisation Tool (IST) in France for the field crops sector. The IST is a risk management tool available within the 2014–2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to support farmers facing a severe drop in their incomes. This analysis was conducted using a farm-level model relying on expected utility theory and based on positive mathematical programming with risk. The model was applied to a sample of 1375 field crop farms in France derived from Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data. Simulation results show that the uptake rate of the tool is relatively low, less than 37% in all scenarios. It is strongly dependent on CAP public support and on how much premium farmers have to pay. Highest uptake rates are observed in farms specialising in Other Field Crops, such as potatoes, pulses and sugar beet, and farms located in regions highly exposed to climatic risks. Previous experience with insurance favours the acceptance of the IST. Model results also show that the IST improves adopters' income and reduces income inequality. However, its impacts on crop diversity, measured by the Shannon index, are negative.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 2","pages":"716-739"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.12581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140340814","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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Decomposing household income differences between farmers and non-farmers: Empirical evidence from Norway 分解农民与非农民之间的家庭收入差异：挪威的经验证据

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-29 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12579

Klaus Mittenzwei, Helge Berglann, Øyvind Hoveid, Alan Matthews, Hugo Storm

{"title":"Decomposing household income differences between farmers and non-farmers: Empirical evidence from Norway","authors":"Klaus Mittenzwei, Helge Berglann, Øyvind Hoveid, Alan Matthews, Hugo Storm","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12579","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12579","url":null,"abstract":"Income comparisons between farm and non-farm households play a crucial role in many aspects of farm policy. Using household income data from tax returns of all Norwegian taxpayers in the period 2006–2015 we study these income differences. We find that the unconditional mean income is higher for farm households, but with important differences depending on the comparison group considered. We also find that the income difference is reduced when we control for differences in the personal characteristics of the different non-farm comparison sub-groups. This finding implies that income comparison using unconditional means, as frequently done in agricultural policy making, is potentially misleading. We also show that the income effect of personal characteristics is not the same for different comparison sub-groups, as has been assumed in previous studies of income disparities. Differences in personal characteristics, and the income effect of those characteristics, therefore need to be accounted for if income comparisons between farmers and non-farmers are to inform farm support policies.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 2","pages":"672-687"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.12579","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140331193","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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Does the internet bring food prices closer together? Exploring search engine query data in Iran 互联网是否拉近了食品价格的距离？探索伊朗的搜索引擎查询数据

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12580

Omid Zamani, Thomas Bittmann, Jens-Peter Loy

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Assessing the role of geographical indications in affecting the quality of imports 评估地理标志在影响进口产品质量方面的作用

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12578

Cristina Vaquero Piñeiro, Daniele Curzi

{"title":"Assessing the role of geographical indications in affecting the quality of imports","authors":"Cristina Vaquero Piñeiro, Daniele Curzi","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12578","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12578","url":null,"abstract":"Geographical indications (GIs) aim to protect the names of specific high-quality products (food and wine) to preserve and promote the uniqueness linked to their geographical origin and traditional know-how. EU and extra-EU countries register domestic products with GIs. This study disentangles the effects of such registrations on the quality of imports using country-level product import data for the fruit, vegetable, coffee, tea, and spice sectors. Our results show that the registration of domestic products as GIs enhances the quality of imported goods only if the importing country has a lower level of quality of domestic production. The introduction of GIs into high-quality domestic markets can discourage import quality upgrades. This is because domestic producers may prefer to compete for quality rather than price, and imported goods represent a less expensive alternative to high-quality national goods for consumers. Conversely, in countries where domestic product quality is lower, the introduction of GIs may enhance import quality upgrading because the diffusion of GIs induces domestic consumers to become more demanding in terms of quality for foreign products.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 2","pages":"653-671"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140162227","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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Markups in US food manufacturing accounting for non-neutral productivity 美国食品制造业的加价与非中性生产率的关系

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12575

Jordi Jaumandreu, Rigoberto Lopez

{"title":"Markups in US food manufacturing accounting for non-neutral productivity","authors":"Jordi Jaumandreu, Rigoberto Lopez","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12575","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12575","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the evolution of productivity and markups in US food and beverage manufacturing from 1959 through 2018. We account for non-Hicks-neutral (labour-augmenting) productivity changes and compare markups with those in general manufacturing using the same dataset and model. We also compare our results with those of the increasingly popular De Loecker and Warzynski (2012, American Economic Review, 102, 2437) method, which does not account for non-Hicks-neutral productivity growth. Empirical results show that productivity growth in the food and beverage sector has been relatively slow and driven with equal intensity by Hicks-neutral and labour-augmenting productivity gains. General manufacturing shows higher productivity growth that is mostly labour-augmenting, with markups comparable to those of food manufacturing. We find that accounting for labour-augmenting productivity produces more moderate markup estimates than the De Loecker and Warzynski (2012) method. We also find no evidence of markups rising in either food manufacturing or general manufacturing in the last 20 years, in contrast to much of the recent economic literature.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 2","pages":"573-591"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.12575","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140135880","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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Landscape-level determinants of the performance of an agglomeration bonus in conservation auctions 保护拍卖中集聚奖金绩效的景观决定因素

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-08 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12576

Chi Nguyen, Uwe Latacz-Lohmann, Nick Hanley

{"title":"Landscape-level determinants of the performance of an agglomeration bonus in conservation auctions","authors":"Chi Nguyen, Uwe Latacz-Lohmann, Nick Hanley","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12576","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12576","url":null,"abstract":"The agglomeration bonus (AB) has been advocated as an incentive mechanism to boost spatially coordinated conservation efforts, where such coordination is thought to be beneficial to achieving biodiversity or other ecological outcomes. Specifically, an AB is paid to individual landholders if their conserved habitats are spatially connected to the conserved habitats of adjacent neighbours. This paper employs a series of controlled lab experiments with agriculture students to investigate the performance of AB in budget-constrained discriminatory-price auctions across different landscape types. We focus on the spatial correlation of opportunity costs and environmental benefits as one potentially important aspect of the landscape. We set up a stylised agricultural landscape where the conservation agency aims to connect fragmented wildlife habitats by incentivising farmers to enrol land in a conservation programme. We investigate the effects of an AB in landscapes where opportunity costs and environmental benefits are uncorrelated, negatively correlated or positively correlated over space. We found that the benefits of an AB in improving landscape-scale environmental outcomes were significant in the positive correlation landscape. However, the AB resulted in worse outcomes in the uncorrelated and negative landscapes.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 2","pages":"592-616"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.12576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140067632","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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Comparing practice- and results-based agri-environmental schemes controlled by remote sensing: An application to olive groves in Spain 比较遥感控制的基于实践和基于结果的农业环境计划：在西班牙橄榄园中的应用

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-05 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12573

Anastasio J. Villanueva, Rubén Granado-Díaz, Sergio Colombo

{"title":"Comparing practice- and results-based agri-environmental schemes controlled by remote sensing: An application to olive groves in Spain","authors":"Anastasio J. Villanueva, Rubén Granado-Díaz, Sergio Colombo","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12573","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12573","url":null,"abstract":"Farmers' preferences toward practice- and results-based agri-environmental schemes (AES) are analysed using a labelled choice experiment. The analysis focuses on schemes involving an innovative satellite-based monitoring system, with different environmental objectives. Olive groves in southern Spain are used as a case study. Results show no statistically significant differences in farmers' willingness to accept (WTA) payment for participating in practice- versus results-based AES when the scheme targets carbon sequestration. By contrast, farmers require a significantly higher WTA payment for results-based AES when targeting biodiversity (using bird species as an indicator), mostly due to the uncertainties related to its provision and monitoring. WTA significantly increases with provision level and remote sensing monitoring, regardless of the type of scheme. Significant preference heterogeneity is observed, partly explained by farmers' attitudes toward risk and their beliefs about environmental service provision and monitoring capacity. The results suggest useful policy implications, including the potential of making use of joint provision of environmental services in the design of results-based AES and accompanying them with uncertainty mitigating measures.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 2","pages":"524-545"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.12573","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140043556","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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Impacts of tariffs and NTMs on beef, pork and poultry trade 关税和非关税措施对牛肉、猪肉和家禽贸易的影响

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Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12574

William C. Ridley, Jeff Luckstead, Stephen Devadoss

{"title":"Impacts of tariffs and NTMs on beef, pork and poultry trade","authors":"William C. Ridley, Jeff Luckstead, Stephen Devadoss","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.12574","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.12574","url":null,"abstract":"Though tariffs have declined in recent years, the number of applied non-tariff measures (NTMs) in meat trade has expanded. We estimate the impacts of tariffs and NTMs (sanitary and phytosanitary [SPS] measures, technical barriers to trade [TBTs], quantitative restrictions, and special safeguard measures) on beef, pork and poultry trade using a structural gravity model. Our baseline regression results show tariffs hinder trade, but SPS measures and TBTs on average expand trade for these three meat products. Using the estimates from our structural gravity model, we simulate the differential effects of declining tariffs versus proliferation of NTMs between 2003 and 2019. The simulation results show that tariff reductions during this period expanded global trade by a cumulative US$466.2 million for the three products, ceteris paribus. In contrast, growth in the number of NTMs caused global meat trade to rise by US$8.4 billion. Our findings thus suggest that the marked increase in the number of applied NTMs in recent decades has had a dramatically larger impact on global meat trade than tariff reductions.","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"75 2","pages":"546-572"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.12574","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139945327","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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