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{"title":"Do moral constraints and government interventions promote the willingness and behaviors of food saving among urban residents in China? An empirical study based on structural equation model","authors":"Duo Chai ,&nbsp;Shujin Yu ,&nbsp;Ting Meng","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102767","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102767","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As income rises and the food supply becomes more sufficient, food waste becomes increasingly severe in emerging economies. Promoting food conservation behaviors among residents is crucial; however, there is little evidence of the consumer-related driving factors behind this behavior from both internal and external perspectives. Based on the theory of planned behavior and the structural equation model, this paper examines the impact mechanism of internal moral constraints and external government intervention on the psychology of saving food among Chinese urban residents in one research framework. Survey data combined from random street-stop interviews and an online survey are applied. Results show that moral constraints, as internal factors, still play a crucial role in forming Chinese urban residents’ willingness to save food. The most influencing mechanisms are through impacts on attitude (personal moral cognition) (β = 0.311) and perceived behavioral control (comparison of economic and moral costs and benefits) (β = 0.581). In the meantime, government interventions, as external factors, significantly impact residents’ willingness and behavior to save food. The government’s efforts in guiding food conservation have a direct promoting effect (β = 0.135) on the respondents’ food-saving willingness, while services and support to food conservation from the government directly promote food-saving behaviors (β = 0.068). Also, the number of household generations and respondent age positively impact food saving willingness, while chronic diseases, income, and food consumption expenditure have adverse impacts. Policies encouraging food saving need to conduct from both internal and external intervention. On the one hand, it demands to strengthen residents’ moral constrains by promoting traditional virtues and improving the awareness of global food security challenges, which can increase the benefits of food saving behaviors in terms of moral values. On the other hand, government intervention on guiding and supporting food conservation can effectively increase both willingness and behaviors of food saving.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 102767"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142659403","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}

{"title":"How do women’s empowerment metrics measure up? A comparative analysis","authors":"Elizabeth Bageant ,&nbsp;Erin Lentz ,&nbsp;Sudha Narayanan ,&nbsp;Nathan Jensen ,&nbsp;Watson Lepariyo","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102764","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102764","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research has identified women’s empowerment as a critical factor for nutritional outcomes and a priority area for understanding women’s mental health status. At the same time, there is no consensus on how empowerment should be measured. The surrounding debate has produced several empowerment metrics that are widely used, yet we know little about whether they can be substituted for one another or their respective strengths and weaknesses. Using data collected from a single sample of women from rural, northern Kenya, we compare five empowerment metrics: The Project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) and associated Health and Nutrition Module (HN), Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI), Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI), and the Survey Based Women’s Empowerment Index (SWPER). The metrics have shared theoretical origins and are commonly used in the food, nutrition and health spaces to study rural women’s lives across low- and middle-income countries. We examine the metrics’ characteristics, distributions, pairwise correlations and capacity of each metric to predict outcomes often associated with the concept of empowerment: body mass index (BMI) and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). We find striking differences between these common empowerment metrics. The metrics’ correlations with one another are highly variable as are the predictive capacities for both outcomes. Further, our analysis finds that the choice of metric can dramatically influence which individuals are identified as empowered. In sum, our results suggest that while these metrics are used in remarkably similar ways to understand rural women’s empowerment and its consequences, unless they are computed with many identical survey questions, the metrics do not capture the same underlying concept and are not interchangeable. We recommend that our work be replicated elsewhere and caution should be taken when implementing and interpreting research using these metrics, as findings may be highly sensitive to the choice of metric.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 102764"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142659404","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}

{"title":"Food system labor and bargaining power","authors":"Timothy J. Richards ,&nbsp;Zachariah Rutledge","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102502","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Historically, pandemics lead to labor shortages, and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21 proved to be no different. While there are many explanations for supply-chain issues reported in a number of industries<span>, the proximate cause for ongoing problems in producing, processing, and delivering food<span> to consumers has been attributed to a lack of labor. If this is the case, then the apparent shortage is likely to manifest in greater bargaining power by workers in the food and agriculture industry, defined generally, during the COVID pandemic. In this paper, we test whether the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with greater bargaining power among food and agriculture workers using a structural model of labor search-and-bargaining, and examine the effect of policy responses to COVID-19 on labor-market outcomes. Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS, Bureau of Census) for wage outcomes in 2019 and 2020, we find that the COVID pandemic was responsible for a 5.7% increase in bargaining power for employed workers. Our counterfactual simulations examine the impact of two labor-market interventions – minimum-wages and unemployment insurance – on equilibrium wages. We find that lower minimum wages leave more employment surplus to employers, allowing them to bid up equilibrium wages, while more generous unemployment insurance reduces the supply of labor, and increases equilibrium wages.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 102502"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1701554","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}

{"title":"The crop insurance demand response to premium subsidies: Evidence from U.S. Agriculture","authors":"Francis Tsiboe ,&nbsp;Dylan Turner","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102505","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Premium subsidies are a common policy tool to promote crop insurance participation in many countries. However, the relationship between subsidies and demand is not entirely obvious given the variation in the use of subsidies and crop insurance participation within the international crop insurance landscape. Focusing on the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) demand is modeled as a system of equations representing decisions at the intensive [coverage level] and extensive [net insured acres] margins. The model makes use of an identification strategy that leverages exogenous variation in government-set pricing policy to address potential sources of endogeneity. Applying the model to over one million insurance pool level FCIP observations spanning two decades (2001–2022) suggest an inelastic response at both extensive and intensive margins to changes in producer-paid premium rates with the response to premium rates becoming increasingly more elastic as subsidies decrease. These estimated elasticities are on the low end compared to previous literature, however, significant heterogeneity across commodity, production practices, policy type, and location are observed suggesting subsets of producers are likely to respond to changes in the cost of insurance in different ways.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 102505"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1767304","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}

{"title":"How does origin labelling on food packaging influence consumer product evaluation and choices? A systematic literature review","authors":"John Thøgersen","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102503","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research on why consumers consider the origin of food products important, how and why it influences consumer choices, and whether they understand and trust it, is fragmented and contradictory. This systematic review of recent, peer-reviewed research finds strong evidence that origin information has a substantial influence on consumers’ food choices. Consumers generally prefer domestic food products to imported and local or regional to other domestic, irrespective of the country or product. The origin becomes less important when trade-offs have to be made and in the presence of other quality cues on the product, such as organic, eco-, or quality assurance labels. Origin information primarily serves two purposes for consumers. First, many believe that food products from some origins are of better quality, safer, more environmentally friendly and in other ways superior to food products from other origins. Second, many consumers feel that it is their duty to support their local or domestic farmers and food industry. A strong ethnocentric bias emerges from the literature review, not only regarding the products consumers buy, but even more regarding their beliefs about products from different origins. In addition, consumers’ understanding and interpretation of information on the origin of food are impeded by a knowledge deficit. However, there is a need for studies digging deeper into deficiencies in consumers knowledge and understanding of origin information. There is also a need for research that disentangles the role of consumer ethnocentrism from other reasons why consumers are interested in origin information.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 102503"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3402097","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}

{"title":"Consumers' preferences for commons-based and open-source produce: A discrete choice experiment with directional information manipulations","authors":"Lea Kliem ,&nbsp;Julian Sagebiel","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102501","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The increasing privatization of seeds and varieties through intellectual property rights such as patents and exclusive seed multiplication rights has led to power imbalances and contributes to the continuous decline of genetic diversity. Diversified agricultural systems are, however, essential for climate change adaptation and the long-term resilience of our food systems. Common ownership of seeds and varieties can play a central role in supporting the development of diversified agricultural systems. With the first commons/open-source varieties entering consumer markets, consumer preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for these varieties are worth exploring. On the example of tomatoes, we carried out a representative consumer survey with a discrete choice experiment. We find that consumers prefer commons/open-source varieties to company-owned varieties and are willing to pay a premium for these varieties. However, the premium they are willing to pay is smaller than for locally grown and organic produce. Providing additional information on the advantages of commons/open-source varieties positively affects WTP. There are no differences in WTP values for ‘commons varieties’ and ‘open-source varieties’. Our findings contribute to academic and policy discourses on consumers’ role in agrobiodiversity conservation and enhancement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 102501"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3452319","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}

{"title":"Social incentives as nudges for agricultural knowledge diffusion and willingness to pay for certified seeds: Experimental evidence from Uganda","authors":"Julius Okello ,&nbsp;Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku ,&nbsp;Carl Johan Lagerkvist ,&nbsp;Jens Rommel ,&nbsp;Wellington Jogo ,&nbsp;Sylvester Ojwang ,&nbsp;Sam Namanda ,&nbsp;James Elungat","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102506","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A transition from low-input subsistence farming in Sub-Saharan Africa will require the use of yield-increasing agricultural technologies. However, in developing countries, most farmers continue to rely heavily on pest-infested and disease-infected recycled seed from own or local sources leading to low yields. This study used a field experiment to examine the effect of a social incentive combined with goal setting on the diffusion of agricultural knowledge and uptake of quality certified seed by farmers. We relaxed the seed access and information/knowledge constraints by introducing improved varieties of sweetpotato in the study villages and providing training to carefully selected progressive farmers who were then linked to co-villagers. We find that social incentives combined with goal setting reduced the likelihood of the trained progressive farmers reaching out to co-villagers to share information and discuss farming. Further, social incentive combined with goal setting had no significant effect on knowledge and experimentation by progressive farmers, and on willingness to pay for improved seed – as elicited through auctions, our proxy for experimentation, by co-villagers. These findings suggest that the combination of goal setting and public recognition acted to crowd-out diffusion effort. We conclude that social incentive combined with goal setting by established progressive farmers already enjoying a certain degree of public recognition is not sufficient to induce effort in learning and experimentation with agricultural innovations. These results have implications for design of policy and extension services to promote adoption of agricultural technologies with proven food and nutrition security benefits in developing countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 102506"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3402098","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}

{"title":"Willing or complying? The delicate interplay between voluntary and mandatory interventions to promote farmers' environmental behavior","authors":"Jesus Barreiro-Hurle ,&nbsp;Francois J. Dessart ,&nbsp;Jens Rommel ,&nbsp;Mikołaj Czajkowski ,&nbsp;Maria Espinosa-Goded ,&nbsp;Macario Rodriguez-Entrena ,&nbsp;Fabian Thomas ,&nbsp;Katarzyna Zagorska","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102481","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agri-environmental policies generally build around two complementary approaches: mandatory requirements and (compensated) voluntary measures. One of the challenges of the future EU Common Agricultural Policy is precisely to find the right balance between these two types of interventions. We conducted an experiment with farmers in three EU Member States to assess the impact of (1) increasing mandatory contributions to the environment, and of (2) decreasing unconditional income support. We also assess the effect of two key behavioural factors: environmental concern and trait reactance. Results show that both interventions reduce voluntary contributions to the environment, but the reduction is higher when mandatory contributions increase than when income decreases.. However, when mandatory contribution increases substantially, this more than offsets the reduction of voluntary contributions, leading to higher total contributions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 102481"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3452318","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}

{"title":"Culture and agricultural biodiversity conservation","authors":"Yanbing Wang ,&nbsp;Sergei Schaub ,&nbsp;David Wuepper ,&nbsp;Robert Finger","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102482","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Farmers’ behavior towards sustainable agricultural production is key to reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture and conserving biodiversity. We investigate the causal effect of culture on pro-environmental behaviors of farmers, and how policy instruments interact with culture to influence behavior. We exploit a unique natural experiment in Switzerland, which consists of two parts. First, there is an inner-Swiss cultural border between German- and French-speaking farmers who share the same natural environment, economy, and institutions, but differ culturally in their norms and values. Second, we exploit the effects of an agri-environmental policy reform that increased the monetary incentives to enroll land into biodiversity conservation. Using a spatial difference-in-discontinuities design and panel census data of all Swiss farms between 2010 and 2017, we show the following findings: Before the reform, farmers on the French-speaking side of the cultural border systematically enrolled less land into biodiversity conservation, compared to the German-speaking side. With increased monetary incentives following the policy reform in 2014, the French-speaking farmers enrolled relatively more additional land than the German-speaking farmers, shrinking the discontinuity. These findings indicate that while there exist cultural differences in pro-environmental behaviors, increased monetary incentives can reduce the importance of cultural differences. We discuss the implications for policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 102482"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1767303","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}

{"title":"Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh","authors":"Akhter Ahmed ,&nbsp;Fiona Coleman ,&nbsp;John Hoddinott ,&nbsp;Purnima Menon ,&nbsp;Aklima Parvin ,&nbsp;Audrey Pereira ,&nbsp;Agnes Quisumbing ,&nbsp;Shalini Roy","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102484","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We use a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to compare two models of delivering nutrition content jointly to husbands and wives: deploying female nutrition workers versus mostly male agriculture extension workers. Both approaches increased nutrition knowledge of men and women, household and individual diet quality, and women’s empowerment. Intervention effects on agriculture and nutrition knowledge, agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity, women’s empowerment, and gender parity do not significantly differ between models where nutrition workers versus agriculture extension workers provide the training. The exception is in an attitudes score, where results indicate same-sex agents may affect scores differently than opposite-sex agents. Our results suggest opposite-sex agents may not necessarily be less effective in providing training. In South Asia, where agricultural extension systems and the pipeline to those systems are male-dominated, training men to deliver nutrition messages may offer a temporary solution to the shortage of female extension workers and offer opportunities to scale and promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture. However, in both models, we find evidence that the presence of mothers-in-law within households modifies the programs’ effectiveness on some nutrition, empowerment, and attitude measures, suggesting that accounting for other influential household members is a potential area for future programming.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 102484"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10398750/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3452320","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}