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{"title":"Maternal employment in high-value agriculture and child nutrition: Evidence from the Ethiopian cut-flower industry","authors":"Astewale Bimr Melaku ,&nbsp;Matin Qaim ,&nbsp;Bethelhem Legesse Debela","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102732","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102732","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In many low- and middle-income countries, agri-food supply chains are transforming rapidly. One important feature of this transformation is growth in certain high-value agricultural subsectors, such as horticulture and cut-flowers for export. Growth in high-value agriculture often creates new employment opportunities, especially for women. More employment can lead to higher rural incomes, but the broader implications for social welfare are not yet sufficiently understood. Here, we use survey data from Ethiopia to investigate the effects of women’s employment in floriculture on child nutrition, focusing on children aged 0–5 years. We develop and estimate endogenous switching regressions to account for possible endogeneity. Our results suggest that maternal employment in floriculture negatively affects child height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores (HAZ and WAZ). Exploration of the underlying mechanisms reveals that floriculture employment may influence time allocation, dietary quality, income, and female financial autonomy. Maternal employment is negatively associated with time spent on childcare and consumption of animal-sourced foods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102732"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142326668","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":"Beyond information: The power of personalized nudges in promoting vegetable purchases","authors":"Hiroki Sasaki,&nbsp;Nobuhiro Ito","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102726","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102726","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the impact of providing general health-related information and personalized nudges aimed at modifying cognitive biases on enhancing vegetable purchases and consumption. We conducted a four-month natural field experiment and analyzed daily purchase records of 942 households using receipt scanner data. While merely explaining the loss-framed health benefits of vegetables did not significantly alter the overall vegetable purchasing habits, we observed a notable decrease in meat purchases, attributing this to the indirect effects of vegetable information. Additionally, when the status of relative vegetable purchases amount was provided based on personal purchase histories, individuals who initially purchased more vegetables demonstrated an increased buying volume. This effect was more pronounced in households with children than in those without. The nudging interventions had long-term effects beyond the experiment’s duration, possibly driven by an altruistic concern for children’s health within the household. Therefore, while nudges alone are not a complete solution, their ability to effect long-term changes in household purchasing patterns suggests that they can be a valuable addition to policy tools promoting sustainable and healthy food choices, as well as traditional mass-targeted promotion strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102726"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142326667","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":"Nudging consumers’ choices for niche milk: A real purchase experiment","authors":"Cristiano Franceschinis ,&nbsp;Riccardo Scarpa ,&nbsp;Mara Thiene","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102729","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102729","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Changing behaviours causing poor health is an ongoing global health challenge that requires developing adequate food policies and strengthening their effectiveness. Policies based on nudging have become increasingly popular internationally, but the literature provides mixed evidence of their effectiveness, with an intense academic debate. This study contributes to the debate by investigating the effect of different nudging techniques (availability enhancement, visibility enhancement and healthy eating calls) via a framed field experiment involving purchases of milk types. Participants were split into different nudging treatment groups and were endowed with a cash amount to purchase any desired quantity of the different products. We modelled observed choices via the multiple discrete–continuous nested extreme value model, which has yet to receive attention for the analysis of nudging effects on food choices. Results show that only the healthy eating call nudge effectively drove participants towards healthier milk choices, while the effect of other nudges is statistically insignificant. We provide simulated demand curves conditional on nudging treatments, which measure the effect of the latter on consumers’ consumption levels of the different milk types available.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102729"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142320038","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":"Balancing environmental policies and food security goals in the face of shifting U.S. rail transportation regulations","authors":"Sandro Steinbach","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102724","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102724"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312706","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":"An approach for assessing whether agricultural projects help smallholders transition to better livelihood strategies: A malawian case study","authors":"Anne G. Timu ,&nbsp;Peter Hazell ,&nbsp;Sara Savastano","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agricultural projects typically aim to promote the uptake of project components amongst targeted small farm populations to improve their farm productivity and welfare. While this approach can be an important first step towards improving smallholder livelihoods, it ignores alternative and often superior livelihood options that might arise within the rural transformation process, particularly in commercial agriculture and the rural nonfarm economy. We argue that the design of smallholder projects implemented within regions already undergoing a dynamic transformation and/or projects which have significant value chain components, should be broadened to assist smallholders in making successful transitions to their best livelihood options. For such projects, monitoring and evaluation activities should track livelihood transitions as well as the usual assessments of productivity and welfare outcomes. To help operationalize such an approach, we propose a typology of smallholder livelihood strategies that can track transitions over time and illustrate its use with data from the Sustainable Agricultural Production Program (SAPP), an agricultural value chain project in Malawi. Using available household panel data and quasi-experimental econometric approaches, we find that the project helped smallholders transition out of subsistence farming to market-oriented farming and helped already existing market-oriented farmers remain as such. Even though the project did not have any specific components designed to promote off-farm incomes, nevertheless, it facilitated many farm household transitions to off-farm diversified livelihoods, possibly due to spillover benefits generated within the local nonfarm economy. All SAPP facilitated transitions led to increases in household incomes. We conclude with some lessons for designing, monitoring, and the evaluation of future agricultural projects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102728"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919224001398/pdfft?md5=47f2a911b2e2b1dd1b7aa98e77ec3db1&pid=1-s2.0-S0306919224001398-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312707","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":"Behavioural insights to reach European Union consumer food waste reduction targets","authors":"Hendrik Bruns ,&nbsp;Valeria De Laurentiis ,&nbsp;Laura García Herrero ,&nbsp;Giulia Listorti","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102725","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102725","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The European Union is committed via legally binding targets to reduce per capita food waste at the retail and consumption stage. This requires realising profound behavioural change in diverse political and cultural contexts. Work of food waste experts systematically analysing implemented reduction interventions revealed important insights and gaps that need to be jointly addressed by scientists, policymakers and practitioners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102725"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173866","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":"Reflections on food policy in the context of healthy and sustainable diets","authors":"Jan Hales ,&nbsp;Joya Kemper ,&nbsp;Samantha K. White ,&nbsp;Ekant Veer","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102708","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102708","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Governments are urged to make significant changes to food policies to reorient food production and consumption to support healthy and sustainable food systems and diets. New Zealand, like many countries, is under pressure to address the deleterious effects of its food system on food security, nutrition, and environmental health to meet global sustainable development goals. We completed a systematic policy review to assess how food policies in New Zealand support the transition to sustainable diets by aligning with sustainable diet principles and whether this is enabled through multisectoral collaboration and policy coherence. We analysed New Zealand’s food policies against a sustainable diet framework, examining if policies are aligned with all dimensions: health and nutrition, environmental, sociocultural, and economic. We found that while sustainability is a priority, the economic, environmental, and sociocultural outcomes dominate policies concerned with food production and trade, with little attention given to nutritional health. We also found that the health impacts are often left out of multisectoral collaboration efforts and that there is a lack of coherence between health, food production, and trade sector policies concerning nutrition. These findings suggest that current policies will likely undermine nutrition-related health goals and hinder New Zealand’s ability to shift to sustainable diets and food systems. Further research is required to understand how food policies influence food producer and consumer behaviours and determine how a more coherent and comprehensive sustainability-oriented policy environment shifts behaviours towards more sustainable diets and food systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102708"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919224001192/pdfft?md5=5b76bc08223ec0d86edfae425e4f7883&pid=1-s2.0-S0306919224001192-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130026","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":"Autopsy of a futures market failure: Japan’s Dojima rice futures in the early 21st century","authors":"Shuhei Yamamoto ,&nbsp;Joseph P. Janzen ,&nbsp;Teresa Serra","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102717","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102717","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Futures markets promise improved price transparency and risk mitigation for staple commodities important to many developing countries, but they can fail even in developed economies with modern financial institutions. We investigate rice futures trading in Japan at the Osaka Dojima Exchange to identify the reasons underlying its failure in 2021. Our analysis reviews the multiple necessary conditions for a successful commodity futures market. We find the Japanese rice market did not meet many of these conditions. The spot market was fragmented with heterogeneous goods and a single dominant firm. Futures trading was unable to facilitate price discovery or effective hedging activity. To the extent it was traded, the Dojima rice futures contract was instead used as a forward contract for making and taking physical delivery. In addition, there was political opposition and regulatory uncertainty around futures trading. Using detailed data on trader positions in the futures market, we show how these factors contributed to diminished interest in futures trading from firms who handle physical commodities. The lessons from the Japanese case are useful for traders, exchanges, and policy makers, especially those in countries where futures markets may face similarly unfavorable economic and political conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102717"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919224001283/pdfft?md5=741b5e1809b9477fbb3b17b7e87997a9&pid=1-s2.0-S0306919224001283-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142117525","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":"The impact of pre-empting dual food quality regulation on product reformulation and packaging","authors":"Kjersti Nes,&nbsp;Federico Antonioli,&nbsp;Federica Di Marcantonio,&nbsp;Pavel Ciaian","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102707","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102707","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The objective of this paper is to analyse the changes in the occurrence of the Differences in Composition of Seemingly Identical, branded food Products (DC-SIP) – also known as “dual food quality” – in the EU and the role of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD) in affecting the food industry’s packaging and recipe formulation choices of branded food products. The occurrence of DC-SIP has decreased from 31 % in 2018/2019 to 24 % in 2021. Our regression results show that companies are more likely to alter the front packaging rather than the composition of the products to address DC-SIP issues. The likelihood that changes in recipe reformulations and front packaging are introduced simultaneously is statistically significant but not all recipe reformulations are introduced jointly with changes in front packaging. Our results provide evidence that the UCPD regulation plays a role in companies reformulating recipes or/and changing the product packaging, but it is not a main driver. Companies often justify the composition differences in DC-SIP by differences in market conditions across Member States. The DC-SIP provisions in the UCPD give companies several options for addressing DC-SIP. For this reason, it is not a significant factor in impacting the companies' choices to reformulate or change the packaging of products.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102707"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919224001180/pdfft?md5=ae9bc432c004f7782f9d742f19d833b6&pid=1-s2.0-S0306919224001180-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142117524","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":"Integrating system dynamics to value chain analysis to address price volatility in the Indonesian chilli value chain","authors":"Yanti Nuraeni Muflikh ,&nbsp;Carl Smith ,&nbsp;Colin Brown ,&nbsp;Nunung Kusnadi ,&nbsp;Adhitya Marendra Kiloes ,&nbsp;Ammar Abdul Aziz","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102713","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The price volatility observed in agricultural value chains presents a significant socio-economic challenge, particularly for smallholder farmers. The issue of price volatility in agricultural value chains is complex due to the dynamic and interconnected nature of these value chains. The objective of this study is to integrate system dynamics with value chain analysis in order to address price volatility in the Indonesian chilli value chain. In order to ensure stakeholder engagement and enhance the robustness of the proposed solutions, a participatory approach will be employed. The utilisation of system dynamics enables the quantitative simulation of the inherent dynamics of the chilli value chain, thereby facilitating both ex-ante and ex-post assessment of policy interventions. A collaborative process with stakeholders was employed to develop, test, and validate a system dynamics model that operates at both provincial and national levels. The findings demonstrate that the model accurately replicates the price volatility observed in the Indonesian chilli market. The key factors contributing to this volatility are seasonal production, disorganised market governance and high postharvest losses. The analysis of policy options indicates that while the importation of chillies can stabilise prices in the short term, it has a negative impact on the income of those involved in the value chain. More sustainable solutions to mitigate price volatility include the implementation of year-round planting and the enhancement of market governance. These strategies present potential avenues for achieving a more stable and equitable chilli market, offering valuable insights for broader agricultural value chain stability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102713"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142098433","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}