Food PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-28DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102906
Cecere Giuseppe , Azarkamand Sahar , Bala Alba , Sazdovski Ilija , Fullana-i-Palmer Pere , Rigamonti Lucia
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Assessing the social risk of high-protein food alternatives using the social life cycle assessment” [Food Policy 134 (2025) 102894]","authors":"Cecere Giuseppe , Azarkamand Sahar , Bala Alba , Sazdovski Ilija , Fullana-i-Palmer Pere , Rigamonti Lucia","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102906","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102906","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102906"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144501171","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-28DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102908
Nathan Morrow , Daniel Maxwell , Nancy B. Mock , Nicholas Haan , Neil K. Marsland , Erin Lentz
{"title":"Resilient food security information systems in the age of disruption: An ecosystem approach","authors":"Nathan Morrow , Daniel Maxwell , Nancy B. Mock , Nicholas Haan , Neil K. Marsland , Erin Lentz","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102908","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food security information systems (FSIS) face unprecedented threats from abrupt shifts in political and funding priorities, misinformation, and manipulation. We draw on 50 years of research in<!--> <em>Food Policy</em> <!-->and the broader FSIS literature to offer five resilience characteristics to guide development of a future-fit FSIS: (1) safeguard integrity and impartiality; (2) ensure independent and transparent governance; (3) optimize data and analysis value streams for decision-making; (4) break down sectoral barriers for holistic food security characterization; and (5) innovate responsibly while embedding accountability and learning. We suggest recommended actions based on these resilience characteristics to co-create a more resilient FSIS ecosystem to guide humanitarian responses, advance preventive action for acute crises, and efficiently deliver results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 102908"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144502141","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102903
Abigail Alexander-Haw , Joachim Schleich , Josephine Tröger
{"title":"Does health-risk information increase the acceptability of a meat tax and meat free days? Experimental evidence from three European countries","authors":"Abigail Alexander-Haw , Joachim Schleich , Josephine Tröger","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102903","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102903","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how health-risk information related to meat consumption affects individual acceptability of a meat tax and mandatory meat-free days in canteens. Analyses draw on a representative survey including a randomised provision of health-risk information to approximately 2,000 individuals in France, Italy, and Latvia. Findings of multivariate analyses do not provide convincing evidence that the health-risk information enhances the acceptability of meat taxes and meat-free days. This finding is robust to a variety of robustness checks. Explorative heterogeneity analyses provide some suggestive evidence that providing health-risk information increases the acceptability of the policies for certain subgroups, but only in specific countries. Correlational results suggest that the acceptability of a meat tax and meat-free days is generally higher if individuals consider them to be less expensive, more effective, and fairer. Finally, the findings provide some limited evidence that acceptability of these policies is lower for individuals who are vulnerable to food insecurity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102903"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144480412","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102909
Nathaniel Jensen , Christopher Barrett , Andrew Mude , Rupsha Banerjee , Yuma Noritomo , Kelvin Shikuku , Kazushi Takahashi , Nils Teufel
{"title":"Index-based Livestock insurance to support pastoralists against droughts","authors":"Nathaniel Jensen , Christopher Barrett , Andrew Mude , Rupsha Banerjee , Yuma Noritomo , Kelvin Shikuku , Kazushi Takahashi , Nils Teufel","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Policy Comments do not include an abstract. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/311580/call-for-policy-comments-for-food-policy).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"137 ","pages":"Article 102909"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144481489","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102901
Marianne Bitler , Janet Currie , Hilary Hoynes , Krista Ruffini , Lisa Schulkind , Barton Willage
{"title":"Effects of school meals on nutrition: Evidence from the start of the school year","authors":"Marianne Bitler , Janet Currie , Hilary Hoynes , Krista Ruffini , Lisa Schulkind , Barton Willage","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102901","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102901","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Free and reduced-price school lunches are available in nearly all public and some private schools, and most of these schools also offer the School Breakfast Program. Children’s eligibility for these programs is conditioned on having low income. An existing literature documents the effects of school meals and school meal nutrition standards on child outcomes, yet causal evidence on how this program affects nutritional intake is still lacking. We compare nutritional intake between the periods just before and just after the school year begins for children likely to be eligible for free school meals (incomes under 200% of the poverty guideline) versus students unlikely to be eligible for or participate in the program (incomes above 200% of the poverty guideline), using granular data we collected about school year start dates. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find access to school meals reduces caloric intake, driven by a reduction in soda consumption for younger children, and a reduction in total fat intake for older children. Given increasing obesity among school children and the specific ways that calories are reduced, these findings likely represent improvements in students’ diets. We do not find any statistically significant effects on food insecurity or any spillover effects onto mothers’ consumption or time spent on food activities, which suggests these effects come from changes in children’s access to school meals and not from other differences between the academic year and summer for school meal eligible vs. higher income families. These results suggest school meals programs can improve nutritional intake, and policymakers should consider this benefit when considering changes to availability such as expanding or reforming universal free meals programs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102901"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144297412","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102896
Erwin Corong , Justin Kagin , Dominique van der Mensbrugghe , Siddharth Krishnaswamy , Arif Husain , Kennedy Nnanga , Cinzia Monetta , Krishna Pahari , J. Edward Taylor
{"title":"Uncovering the World Food Program’s economic footprint in East Africa","authors":"Erwin Corong , Justin Kagin , Dominique van der Mensbrugghe , Siddharth Krishnaswamy , Arif Husain , Kennedy Nnanga , Cinzia Monetta , Krishna Pahari , J. Edward Taylor","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We use general-equilibrium modelling methods to estimate the “economic footprint” of the operations of a major international development agency on the national and regional economies in which it operates. We find that each dollar spent by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) Regional Bureau of Nairobi (RBN) operations increases the total value of production in the East African region by as much as $2.30 and regional real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) by up to $1.42. There are large variations across countries. For example, real-income effects range from $3.68 in Uganda to −$2.38 in Eritrea. WFP-RBN spending adds up to 20,047 year-round equivalent jobs for skilled workers and 365,606 jobs for unskilled workers in East Africa. Though not a focus of this study, we show that WFP RBN cash-based transfers to households add to these impacts. To our knowledge, this is the first effort to rigorously document the economy-wide impacts of the operations of a major development actor.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102896"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144271487","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102900
Huixian Cheng, Hailong Cai, Xiuqing Wang
{"title":"What is the magnitude of risk exposure in China’s bioeconomic supply chains?","authors":"Huixian Cheng, Hailong Cai, Xiuqing Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102900","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102900","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The stability of bioeconomic supply chains is crucial for both national security and environmental sustainability. This study adopts a global supply chain perspective and primarily utilizes the Import Side of Foreign Production Exposure (FPEM) indicator to assess the risk exposure of China’s bioeconomy, based on data from the OECD ICIO tables. The findings indicate that the overall levels of domestic and foreign risk exposure across various sectors of China’s bioeconomy are relatively high, which makes it more vulnerable to supply chain disruptions than the U.S. and the EU. However, the proportion of foreign risk exposure in China’s bioeconomic sectors remains relatively modest, ranging from approximately 7% to 12%. Moreover, the look through foreign risk exposure of China’s bioeconomy consistently exceeds its face value foreign risk exposure, suggesting that certain foreign supply chain risks may be concealed. Notably, the Agriculture sector shows the most significant increase in look through foreign risk exposure, implying a gradual rise in potential risks. While the hidden foreign risk exposure in the Food sector demonstrates relatively low volatility, its underlying external dependencies remain a critical concern that should not be underestimated. Additionally, our research shows that the U.S. and China are each other’s largest actual foreign suppliers of intermediate inputs in the bioeconomy. This study not only provides critical insights for the risk management of China’s bioeconomic supply chains but also offers valuable lessons and implications for the security and sustainable development of global bioeconomic supply chains. Food policy implications are also discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102900"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144242943","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-09DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102893
Kjersti Nes , K. Aleks Schaefer , Jisang Yu
{"title":"Economic impacts of the Indian ban on non-Basmati rice exports","authors":"Kjersti Nes , K. Aleks Schaefer , Jisang Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102893","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102893","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In July 2023, India — the world’s largest rice exporter — imposed a ban on non-Basmati rice exports. This policy resulted in significant price increases in global rice markets, with prices rising by up to 32% in key rice-exporting countries. As a consequence, rice-consuming countries, particularly those in Asia and Africa, experienced increased food expenditures, leading to an estimated annual consumer surplus loss of $315 million. Our analysis suggests that the export ban disproportionately impacts low-income consumers in countries heavily dependent on rice imports.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102893"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144242944","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-07DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102833
MingDa Li , Aurélie P. Harou , Averi Chakrabarti
{"title":"Agricultural intensification through multiple-season farming: Effects on resiliency, food security and nutrition","authors":"MingDa Li , Aurélie P. Harou , Averi Chakrabarti","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102833","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102833","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agricultural intensification is key to improving food security, nutrition, and resilience. While most approaches focus on increasing productivity using improved inputs like fertilizers, an alternative, relatively understudied method involves multiple-season farming—cultivation across multiple periods in a year, enabled by conditions such as irrigation or alternative water access. Using panel data from the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (2010–2019) in Malawi, we examine how multiple-season farming shapes household food security, child nutrition, and resilience, defined as persistent food security over time. To mitigate selection bias, we employ fixed-effects and instrumental variable fixed-effects models. We find that multiple-season farming is statistically significantly associated with improved household food security (at the 1% level), particularly for asset-rich and male-headed households. Multiple season farmers cultivate more diverse crops and engage in market sales, which enhances their food supply. However, we find no significant impact on child nutrition. Using Cissé and Barrett’s (2018) moment-based method to estimate resilience, we provide suggestive evidence that multiple-season farming also positively affects household resilience. These results point to the potential of multiple-season farming to bolster food security and help farmers adapt to climate change. Our results also highlight the need for interventions that support poor and female-headed households to access the inputs needed for multiple season farming.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102833"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144231056","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}