IF 6.8 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102916

Rahman Md. Mostafizur , Khatun Mst. Asma , Moinul Islam , Tatsuyoshi Saijo , Koji Kotani

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Weather shocks and child nutritional status in rural Bangladesh: Does labor allocation have a role to play? 天气冲击与孟加拉国农村儿童营养状况：劳动力分配是否有影响？

IF 6.8 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102918

Kirara Homma , Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam , Masanori Matsuura-Kannari , Bethelhem Legesse Debela

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School milk programs and child nutrition: leveraging local governments and markets 学校牛奶项目和儿童营养：利用地方政府和市场

IF 6.8 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102917

Vivek Pandey , Elangbam Kyamba Khanganba

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The long-term impact of the nutrition improvement program on children’s education outcomes: Empirical evidence from rural China 营养改善计划对儿童教育成果的长期影响：来自中国农村地区的经验证据

IF 6.8 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102915

Zhen Guan , Yang He , Xinjie Shi , Chen Zhang

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Is agricultural technology adoption effective in reducing multidimensional poverty? Panel data evidence from Tanzania 采用农业技术在减少多维贫困方面是否有效？来自坦桑尼亚的小组数据证据

IF 6.8 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102904

Mkupete Jaah Mkupete

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Creating awareness and informing policy: Implications of Buzby and Hyman’s food loss estimates in the United States 提高认识并告知政策：巴兹比和海曼对美国粮食损失估计的影响

IF 6.8 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102914

Bhagyashree Katare , Krystal L. Hodge

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Fighting inflation through VAT reductions 通过降低增值税来对抗通货膨胀

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102912

Hugo Morão

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Evidence for promoting pesticide-free, non-organic cereal production 促进无农药、非有机谷物生产的证据

IF 6.8 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102911

Robert Finger , Niklas Möhring

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Tracking the affordability of least-cost healthy diets helps guide intervention for food security and improved nutrition 跟踪最低成本健康饮食的可负担性有助于指导粮食安全和改善营养的干预措施

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102913

William A. Masters

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The use of crop diversification in agricultural yield insurance products 农作物多样化在农业产量保险产品中的应用

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102905

Jonas Schmitt , Frank Offermann , Robert Finger

{"title":"The use of crop diversification in agricultural yield insurance products","authors":"Jonas Schmitt , Frank Offermann , Robert Finger","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102905","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102905","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Crop production is exposed to many sources of biotic and abiotic risks, such as extreme weather, pests, and diseases. Crop diversification and crop insurance are both important risk management strategies for farmers. The two strategies are usually considered separately. Here, we propose to exploit potential synergies by including crop diversification in multiple crop yield insurance designs. We provide an ex-ante analysis to compare multiple-yield insurance, which covers the different crops together as a bundle, with single-yield insurances. To this end, we use historical farm-level yield observations for winter wheat, winter barley, winter rapeseed, sugar beet and grain maize in German agriculture (N = 113,463 historical farm-level yield observations during 1995–2019) and assess the implications for risk reduction, fair insurance premiums, and expected utility. In our analysis, we refer to the area-weighted and price-weighted revenues as the underlying for both insurance scenarios. We show that multiple-yield insurance is particularly attractive for highly risk-exposed farms because multiple-yield insurance has lower fair insurance premiums compared to insuring each crop separately. Moreover, the certainty equivalents in the multiple-yield insurance scenario are often higher than those in the single-yield insurances scenario, especially when the premium loadings are high. In addition, the fact that broader crop rotations and diversification are rewarded with lower premiums under multiple-yield insurance offers the potential to combine the overarching policy goals of agricultural risk management and diversification of agricultural landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102905"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144549555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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