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Intra-Seasonal Crop Management and the Potential Benefit of Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts: Farm-Level Embedded Risk Analysis in Ethiopia 季节性作物管理和季节性降水预报的潜在效益:埃塞俄比亚农场层面的嵌入式风险分析
IF 5.5 2区 经济学
Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-12 Epub Date: 2026-05-19 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.70054
Christian Troost, Samuel Elias Kayamo, Livia Rasche, Thomas Berger
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Fertilising Climate Policy: The Dual Impact of CBAM on EU Agricultural Emissions and Regional Disparities 施肥气候政策:CBAM对欧盟农业排放和区域差异的双重影响
IF 5.5 2区 经济学
Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-12 Epub Date: 2026-06-03 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.70060
Davit Stepanyan, Omid Zamani, Claudia Heidecke, Janine Pelikan, Jörg Rieger, Bernhard Osterburg, Alexander Gocht
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The Economic and Ecological Impact of Soy in Brazil: A Synthetic Control Method Approach 大豆在巴西的经济和生态影响:一种综合控制方法
IF 5.5 2区 经济学
Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-12 Epub Date: 2026-06-11 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.70061
Stefano Ghinoi, Simone Piras, Luca Tasciotti, Valdemar João Wesz Junior
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Planning Crop–Livestock Integration With Social Norms: A Bio-Economic Model Balancing Circularity and Farmer Welfare 具有社会规范的计划农牧一体化:一个平衡循环与农民福利的生物经济模型
IF 5.5 2区 经济学
Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-12 Epub Date: 2026-07-28 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.70063
Matteo Bruno Ricozzi, Argyris Kanellopoulos, Jaap Sok, Sander de Leeuw
{"title":"Planning Crop–Livestock Integration With Social Norms: A Bio-Economic Model Balancing Circularity and Farmer Welfare","authors":"Matteo Bruno Ricozzi,&nbsp;Argyris Kanellopoulos,&nbsp;Jaap Sok,&nbsp;Sander de Leeuw","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.70063","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Regional crop-livestock integration can reduce dependence on external inputs and improve circularity, but its implementation requires coordination across heterogeneous farms and may generate uneven welfare losses due to technical, economic and behavioural factors, including social norms and peer effects. This study develops a landscape bio-economic model that integrates heterogeneous farmer preferences, farm-level constraints and social coordination via social norms and peer networks. Applied to a Dutch case study, the model identifies, from a social planner perspective, coordinated integration strategies that optimise feed and manure exchanges between arable and dairy farms. We show that optimising farm-to-farm integration can reduce total nitrogen import by up to 20% with limited losses of farmer welfare relative to the unconstrained welfare-maximising solution. The model estimates farm-specific willingness-to-accept imposed circularity targets, accounting for losses across economic and non-economic utility attributes, including social norm conformity. Willingness-to-accept increases non-linearly as nitrogen reduction targets become more stringent, with the burden initially borne mainly by sustainability-oriented and dairy farms, while extending to arable and conventional farms only at very ambitious targets. We also find that stronger preferences for social norm conformity can ease trade-offs between farmer welfare and circularity and are associated with greater reliance on local feed exchange and a reduced role for manure exchange, indicating that social influence is practice-specific. These results motivate targeted and phased policy programmes combined with coordination incentives.</p>","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"77 3","pages":"1034-1049"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.70063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148596244","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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Antimicrobial Use in Livestock: The Economic Cost of Action or Inaction 家畜抗菌剂的使用:采取行动或不采取行动的经济代价
IF 5.5 2区 经济学
Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-12 Epub Date: 2026-05-11 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.70041
Alejandro Acosta, Wondmagegn Tirkaso, Marco Artavia, Francesco Nicolli, Thomas Chatzopoulos, Sergio René Araujo-Enciso, Martin Cicowiez, Shaikh Eskander, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Junxia Song
{"title":"Antimicrobial Use in Livestock: The Economic Cost of Action or Inaction","authors":"Alejandro Acosta,&nbsp;Wondmagegn Tirkaso,&nbsp;Marco Artavia,&nbsp;Francesco Nicolli,&nbsp;Thomas Chatzopoulos,&nbsp;Sergio René Araujo-Enciso,&nbsp;Martin Cicowiez,&nbsp;Shaikh Eskander,&nbsp;Ramanan Laxminarayan,&nbsp;Junxia Song","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.70041","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper quantifies the economy-wide consequences of two independent global stress-tests in livestock production. The first assesses the effects of phasing out antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs), and the second evaluates the long-term impacts of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) progression. We use a sequential, one-way modelling framework combining a global partial equilibrium (PE) model and a global computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to trace how scenario-defined shocks in livestock production propagate through world agricultural markets and the wider economy. The highest-impact AGPs phase-out scenario results in cumulative global livestock production losses, valued at constant 2021–2023 prices, of roughly USD 53 billion over 2025–2040, with annual deviations that peak in the mid-2020s and then decline as output converges along scenario-defined recovery paths. In contrast, the highest-impact AMR scenario produces persistent and compounding reductions by construction, with cumulative production losses of about USD 318 billion by 2040, while cumulative economy-wide welfare losses in this high-impact case reach approximately USD 1.25 trillion, concentrated mainly in upper–middle-income countries. Results are scenario dependent by construction and represent indicative orders of magnitude rather than forecasts. The baseline implicitly reflects prevailing levels of AGPs and AMR embedded in historical production trends. The study provides a framework for quantifying the production effects of antimicrobial use (AMU) and their economy-wide spillovers, highlighting the asymmetric timing of the economic costs of action and inaction under the imposed scenario structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"77 3","pages":"865-887"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.70041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148288558","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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Automating Food Production: Evidence From the Dutch Food Industry 自动化食品生产:来自荷兰食品工业的证据
IF 5.5 2区 经济学
Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-12 Epub Date: 2026-08-09 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.70067
Jan-Philip R. Uhlemann
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Efficiency, Shadow Pricing and Regime Switching in Multi-Ware Technologies: Evidence From Regulated Livestock Farms 多产品技术的效率、影子定价和制度转换:来自监管牲畜养殖场的证据
IF 5.5 2区 经济学
Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-12 Epub Date: 2026-05-24 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.70059
Youpei Yan, Robert G. Chambers
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An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Virtual Fencing for Precision Grazing 精准放牧虚拟围栏的经济与环境分析
IF 5.5 2区 经济学
Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-12 Epub Date: 2026-06-10 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.70062
Elias Maritan, Karl Behrendt, Sarah Morgan, Steven Mark Rutter, James Lowenberg-DeBoer
{"title":"An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Virtual Fencing for Precision Grazing","authors":"Elias Maritan,&nbsp;Karl Behrendt,&nbsp;Sarah Morgan,&nbsp;Steven Mark Rutter,&nbsp;James Lowenberg-DeBoer","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.70062","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1477-9552.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The UK grazing livestock sector is challenged by declining farm profitability and stringent environmental policy. Innovative technologies such as virtual fencing could enable a balanced economic and environmental performance of beef production. Virtual fencing is a livestock management tool relying on invisible boundaries perceived as auditory, electrical, or vibrational cues emitted by devices worn by grazing animals. This analysis compares virtual and conventional fencing from an economic and environmental perspective using a multi-objective linear programming model. Optimal livestock management scenarios are identified for two typical UK cattle grazing systems. In intensive lowland beef finishing, virtual fencing achieves the lowest economic performance and a beef carbon emission intensity comparable to electric fencing. In an extensive upland suckler cow system, virtual fencing enables ecological conservation and reduces beef carbon emission intensity but increases labour input compared to set stocking. This <i>ex-ante</i> assessment illustrates how precision grazing technologies can be simultaneously evaluated against economic and environmental objectives. The results indicate that, under current cost structures, virtual fencing is unlikely to be competitive with electric fencing in intensive lowland beef finishing systems, where it delivers similar environmental outcomes at higher cost. In contrast, in upland suckler cow systems, virtual fencing can support habitat protection and reduce beef carbon emission intensity but remains constrained by capital and labour costs. These findings suggest that virtual fencing is unlikely to be widely adopted on purely commercial grounds but could play a targeted role in the delivery of publicly subsidised conservation programmes such as the UK's Environmental Land Management schemes.</p>","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"77 3","pages":"1018-1033"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-9552.70062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148288524","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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Bridging the Divide Between Agricultural Economics and the Sustainability Sciences 弥合农业经济学和可持续发展科学之间的鸿沟
IF 3.4 2区 经济学
Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-11 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.70074
Thomas W. Hertel
{"title":"Bridging the Divide Between Agricultural Economics and the Sustainability Sciences","authors":"Thomas W. Hertel","doi":"10.1111/1477-9552.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.70074","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based on several decades of experience engaging in interdisciplinary research and teaching involving agronomists, climate scientists, ecologists, hydrologists and geographers, focused on ensuring the long run sustainability of local and global food systems. Through a series of examples of this research, the paper will underscore several key points. The first is that keeping the economics as simple as possible leaves greater room for interdisciplinary collaboration. The more complex the economic models, the higher the barrier to effective collaboration. Basic economic messages on the role of markets in mediating the impacts of policies, along with producer and consumer responses to changing incentives are invaluable to sustainability analyses and can lend important new insights. This doesn’t mean that the ensuing economic analysis is not sophisticated. Indeed, as will be demonstrated, sophisticated analysis is critically important. But this analysis is at the ‘extensive margin’ of economic science—applying established methods to new application domains. A second point is that economists must work at the same spatial resolution as our science collaborators. For food, land and water sustainability challenges, this is typically the grid cell—geospatial units identified by latitude and longitude coordinates. Economists have been slow on the uptake of the geospatial data revolution. For me personally, this has meant moving, over the last two decades, from national scale general equilibrium modelling to gridded partial equilibrium modelling. Ultimately, these two frameworks can be combined, as I will demonstrate in this paper. Many sustainability analyses must start at the granular level where one can leverage the full expertise of the biophysical scientists. This may take many economists out of their comfort zone. However, our tools can be adapted and brought to bear at fine scale. In this context, the paper highlights the value of the Global‐to‐Local‐to‐Global approach to sustainability analysis. The third key point made in this paper is that economics offers a great organising framework for interdisciplinary projects. Too often we let the biophysical scientists frame the discussion prior to our involvement. This leads to frustration on the part of economists who are relegated to a secondary role in the project. However, if we lead the writing of the proposal and frame the overall discussion in economic terms, this gives rise to a very different dynamic which can facilitate coherent and meaningful economic analyses. Further, when economics is not used in the sustainability sciences, policy prescriptions are often limited at best, and misleading at worst. Finally, I have some suggestions for the teaching of interdisciplinary skills at the graduate level. Here, a well‐constructed course can benefit both the students as well as the instructor, fostering fruitful collaborations on grant applications, as well as generating new ideas for res","PeriodicalId":14994,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148922635","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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A Hundred Years of the Agricultural Economics Society 《农业经济学会百年
IF 3.4 2区 经济学
Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-11 DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.70065
David R. Stead
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