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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102856

Camila Veneo C. Fonseca , Yasmin Proença , Ivette Luna , Maria Sylvia M. Saes

{"title":"Transformative policies in Brazilian agri-food systems: An analysis of family farm procurement under the national school feeding program","authors":"Camila Veneo C. Fonseca , Yasmin Proença , Ivette Luna , Maria Sylvia M. Saes","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102856","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102856","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public procurement is a key policy tool for promoting more sustainable agri-food systems. In Brazil, the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) has played an important role in integrating family farmers into institutional markets, yet various factors affect their participation. This study investigates the most important factors influencing family farmers’ participation in public procurement under the PNAE. It examines three analytical dimensions: demographic characteristics, state capacities, and family farming features. Using logistic regressions and classification trees, the research finds that municipality density negatively impacts family farm procurement targets, while state capacities have positive effects. Agricultural characteristics such as the proportion of family farming establishments relative to all agricultural establishments, technical assistance, financing, and formalization also play significant roles. The findings underscore the importance of regional variables in Brazilian agricultural dynamics. By analyzing all Brazilian municipalities with both linear and nonlinear analytical techniques, this study contributes to understanding the effective implementation of the PNAE, providing valuable insights for researchers and public managers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 102856"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143725332","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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The economic consequences of fertilizer supply shocks

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102835

Hugo Morão

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Internalizing the external costs to achieve environmental and economic Goals: A Case study of rice production in China

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102857

Jintao Yang , Bingbo Gao , Fang Xia , Hanlin Wei , Shenggen Fan

{"title":"Internalizing the external costs to achieve environmental and economic Goals: A Case study of rice production in China","authors":"Jintao Yang , Bingbo Gao , Fang Xia , Hanlin Wei , Shenggen Fan","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102857","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102857","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study addresses the critical issue of internalizing externalities in grain production, a key challenge in aligning economic growth with environmental sustainability in agricultural policy, particularly in the context of cross-regional grain trade. Using data from 30,524 rice circulation samples across China, we map inter-provincial rice flows and quantify the external costs of rice production at the provincial level. Our finding indicates that total external costs reach 8,810.4 million CNY, including greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts resulting from the inefficient use of fertilizers and pesticides. To address this, we propose an external cost-sharing mechanism in which consuming provinces compensate producing provinces with 4,955.7 million CNY. This innovative framework aims to harmonize economic growth with sustainable rice production while establishing a solid foundation for implementing inter-provincial horizontal benefit compensation policies in China. Moreover, it serves as a valuable reference for cross-regional ecological compensation strategies. By addressing both economic and environmental dimensions, this study contributes to the discourse on sustainable agricultural policy and regional equity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 102857"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143684040","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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The impact of site-specific soil-test-based extension advice on farm management in Malawi

IF 6.8 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102850

Christone J. Nyondo , Joyce Minofu , Joseph Goeb , William J. Burke , Daemon Kambewa , Regis Chikowo , Sieglinde Snapp

{"title":"The impact of site-specific soil-test-based extension advice on farm management in Malawi","authors":"Christone J. Nyondo , Joyce Minofu , Joseph Goeb , William J. Burke , Daemon Kambewa , Regis Chikowo , Sieglinde Snapp","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102850","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102850","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agricultural extension services in Africa face many challenges in reaching farmers with information for sustainable and improved crop production. A critical gap for many smallholders is a lack of knowledge of their soils, including soil organic carbon (SOC) content, a key soil health indicator driving fertiliser responsiveness and crop production. We use a randomised control trial (RCT) to estimate the causal effects of real-time diagnostics and soil carbon measurement to support behavioural change and farmers’ adaptive capacity to improve farm management practices. Treatment group farmers receive context-specific extension services through site-specific soil tests using a handheld reflectometer as a starting point for in-depth discussions with extension agents about soil management. The results suggest significant improvements in sustainable intensification within the treatment group, with gains in farmer experimentation and adoption of organic inputs and management practices in both the year of advice and one year later. Treatment farmers are 40 percent more likely to apply organic fertilisers, 18 percent more likely to incorporate crop residues into their soils, and 7 percent more likely to intercrop maize with a legume. Further, treatment farmers show better timing of inorganic fertiliser applications, though use decisions are largely unchanged. The widespread fertiliser subsidy program may have influenced this last finding. This research demonstrates that a low-cost soil testing tool combined with individualised soil management advice can influence farmers’ soil nutrient-management behaviours and improve the capacity of extension to deliver site-specific soil information. This can lead to marked improvements in the effectiveness of farm management practices and agricultural extension services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 102850"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143679629","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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U.S. public sentiment toward policy action targeting emissions from beef production

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102851

Jaime R. Luke , Glynn T. Tonsor

{"title":"U.S. public sentiment toward policy action targeting emissions from beef production","authors":"Jaime R. Luke , Glynn T. Tonsor","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102851","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102851","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many countries have begun introducing policies aiming to reduce emissions from beef production. Several strategies are being researched and developed to reduce such emissions. This study explores U.S. public sentiment toward various beef production emissions-reduction strategies and quantifies support for potential policy measures. Using data from a nationally representative survey, we find that feeding seaweed to cattle is the most preferred strategy followed by letting either the beef industry or the U.S. Department of Agriculture decide how to reduce emissions from beef production. The U.S. public shows greater support for subsidies versus mandates if they recognize that mandates could increase the price of beef. The strategy with the highest estimated subsidy support, as funded by the U.S. public, is seaweed. However, these subsidy levels are less than the projected cost of the product in practice, so producer adoption of seaweed as triggered by a U.S. public-supported subsidy is unlikely. A more plausible solution to subsidizing a subset of beef producers to reduce emissions may be connecting climate-concerned residents who are willing to fund a subsidy to producers who are willing to adopt climate-focused practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 102851"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143684752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Once bitten, twice shy? Direct and indirect effects of weather shocks on fertilizer and improved seeds use

IF 6.8 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102852

Kelvin Mulungu , Dale T. Manning , Martina Bozzola

{"title":"Once bitten, twice shy? Direct and indirect effects of weather shocks on fertilizer and improved seeds use","authors":"Kelvin Mulungu , Dale T. Manning , Martina Bozzola","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102852","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102852","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Evidence suggests that negative weather shocks, such as droughts, can influence input use in agriculture by reducing available income and shaping farmers’ behavioral responses. Yet, the relative importance of these two pathways remains unclear. This study proposes a method to disentangle the direct (behavioral) and indirect (income) effects of a drought shock on the use of inorganic fertilizer and improved maize seed. We employed a two-way fixed-effects regression combined with causal mediation analysis and entropy balancing to account for income endogeneity on a rich farm-level data from 6058 smallholder households in Zambia in 2012 and 2015. Our results show that farmers who experienced a drought in the previous growing season are less likely to use inorganic fertilizer but more likely to use improved seeds. The indirect income effect accounts for approximately 10% of the total effect for both inputs, amplifying the direct effect for inorganic fertilizer while diminishing it for improved seeds. The contribution of the indirect effect increases with the severity of drought shocks, although the direct effect remains the dominant channel. We also provide suggestive evidence that changes in risk aversion drive behavioral responses, while access to credit mitigates the income effect. These results highlight how drought shocks influence the timing and type of technology adopted in agriculture. Understanding the relative importance of these direct and indirect effects offers critical insights for policies aimed at enhancing climate change adaptation and agricultural productivity in the developing world.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 102852"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143679627","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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The unmet financial needs of intermediary firms within agri-food value chains in Uganda and Bangladesh

IF 6.8 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102838

Annet Adong , Kate Ambler , Jeffrey R. Bloem , Alan de Brauw , Sylvan Herskowitz , A.H.M. Saiful Islam , Julia Wagner

{"title":"The unmet financial needs of intermediary firms within agri-food value chains in Uganda and Bangladesh","authors":"Annet Adong , Kate Ambler , Jeffrey R. Bloem , Alan de Brauw , Sylvan Herskowitz , A.H.M. Saiful Islam , Julia Wagner","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102838","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102838","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Intermediary firms within agri-food value chains — operating between the farmgate and retailers — typically account for at least as much, if not more, value added as the primary agricultural production sector of the economy, but little is known about how these small and largely informal firms conduct their business. Drawing on a set of innovative surveys implemented amid the arabica coffee and soybean value chains in Uganda and the rice and potato value chains in Bangladesh, we describe the financial activities of these intermediary firms. We document four sets of results. First, across all intermediary actors in our data the overwhelming majority of transactions are cash-based. Second, although many intermediary actors are un-banked, access to financial accounts varies considerably by value chain segment, commodity, and country. Third, while most intermediary actors report using mobile money for personal purposes, especially in Uganda, very few use mobile money to facilitate business transactions. Fourth, although intermediary actors frequently report exposure to risk, very few effectively manage this risk. We conclude by discussing how intermediary agri-food value chain actors represent an underappreciated population for the promotion of new technologies to improve outcomes among both intermediary actors themselves and smallholder farmers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 102838"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143684038","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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Global poverty and the cost of a healthy diet

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102849

Jonas Stehl , Lutz Depenbusch , Sebastian Vollmer

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Taxing fat versus behavioural interventions: Multiple discrete–continuous extreme value (MDCEV) models and the PCSHOP randomized trial of shopping behaviour

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102836

John Buckell , David Palma , Stephane Hess , Susan A. Jebb , Carmen Piernas

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Public transfers, food consumption and dietary diversity. The case of Tarjeta Uruguay Social

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102837

Victoria Tenenbaum, Andrea Vigorito

{"title":"Public transfers, food consumption and dietary diversity. The case of Tarjeta Uruguay Social","authors":"Victoria Tenenbaum, Andrea Vigorito","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102837","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102837","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social protection systems in several Latin American countries are increasingly adopting prepaid magnetic cards to promote the consumption of food and other essential goods. However, little is known about how these transfers affect household expenditure and consumption patterns or their advantages over cash options in high- and middle-income countries. Based on a fuzzy regression discontinuity design that exploits programme assignment rules, we assess the effect of the Uruguayan <em>Tarjeta Uruguay Social</em> (TUS) on food expenditure patterns and a dietary diversity score (DDS). We also analyse non-food expenditure and its components, and three potential explanatory channels: the infra/extra-marginality of the transfer; labour market attachment of the beneficiaries; and self-reported consumption decisions within the household. We do not find effects regarding food expenditure and the DDS, which could be mainly associated with the infra-marginality of the transfer. However, poorer households receiving doubled TUS amounts show positive changes in DDS (3%) and expenditure on fruit (17%) and legumes (9%) relative to a control group. In addition, TUS increases spending on housing for all beneficiaries, which is also reflected in an improvement in the quality of housing materials. Although it does not change the balance between cash and credit purchases, it does lead to a reduction in indebtedness, appears to act as an income stabilizer. These elements suggest that, for most households, TUS behaves like a purely cash transfer.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 102837"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143654578","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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