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Financing agricultural innovation: Challenges and alternatives to venture capital in the AgTech sector 农业创新融资：农业科技领域风险资本的挑战和替代方案

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102967

Jorge Fernandez-Vidal , Silverio Alarcon

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Revealing fundamental demand parameters: A new theoretically consistent meta-regression approach to US food demand elasticities 揭示基本需求参数：一种新的理论一致的美国粮食需求弹性元回归方法

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102951

Younghyeon Jeon , Wyatt Thompson , J. Isaac Miller , Hoa Hoang , David Abler

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The impact of animal welfare regulations on pork trade: evidence from European countries 动物福利法规对猪肉贸易的影响：来自欧洲国家的证据

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102966

Shon Ferguson , Anna Wallenbeck , Sigrid Agenäs , Helena Hansson

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Integrating social vulnerability into food fraud vulnerability assessment: policy implications for authenticity in Spanish honey 将社会脆弱性纳入食品欺诈脆弱性评估：西班牙蜂蜜真实性的政策含义

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102954

Claudia Coral, Dagmar Mithöfer

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Review: untangling the complex economics of the local food retail environment 回顾：解开当地食品零售环境的复杂经济学

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102953

Xiao Dong , Anne T. Byrne , Alana Rhone , Michele Ver Ploeg

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Can unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) adoption reduce pesticide use and enhance yields? Evidence from mountainous rice farming in Yunnan, China 采用无人机（UAV）能减少农药使用并提高产量吗？来自中国云南山区水稻种植的证据

IF 6 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102965

Junpeng Li , Wanglin Ma , Bowen Shen , Longwei Li

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The impacts of SNAP benefit reductions on participation: Evidence from emergency allotment expirations SNAP福利减少对参与的影响：来自紧急拨款到期的证据

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102950

Jordan W. Jones , Reem Hashad

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Hybrid agricultural extension and the adoption of climate-resilient varieties: Evidence from oil palm in the Amazon 杂交农业推广和适应气候变化品种的采用：来自亚马逊油棕的证据

IF 6 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102952

Alejandro Estefan , Romina Ordoñez , Cristina Parilli , Paul Winters

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Gender and food systems: Are global recommendations for sustainable food systems transformation also gender transformative? 性别与粮食系统：关于可持续粮食系统转型的全球建议是否也具有性别转型意义？

IF 6 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102943

S. Dysard , S. Mayhew , M. Ranganathan , P. Milsom , H. Walls

{"title":"Gender and food systems: Are global recommendations for sustainable food systems transformation also gender transformative?","authors":"S. Dysard , S. Mayhew , M. Ranganathan , P. Milsom , H. Walls","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102943","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102943","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The globally dominant industrialised food system, which encompasses the interrelated actors and activities involved in producing, processing, distributing, preparing and consuming food, in its current form contributes to the global burden of food insecurity and malnutrition, and to environmental degradation and social inequities. Women are critical actors across all aspects of this food system, yet food systems also drive gender inequality, negatively impacting the health and wellbeing of women and girls globally. Addressing these systemic gender inequities is essential for food systems transformation, which requires the adoption of gender-transformative approaches (GTAs) in policymaking. This study assessed the level of gender inclusion in existing global-level food systems policy recommendations to identify gaps in the achievement of GTAs within sustainable food systems policymaking. We undertook a three‑step methodological approach: (i) identification and adaptation of a gender inclusion assessment tool through a scoping review; (ii) identification of global-level policies addressing food systems challenges; and (iii) gender inclusion policy analysis using the adapted assessment tool. The analysis revealed that most food systems policies recommended at the global level fail to integrate GTAs. Policies that were assessed showed limited consideration for gender equality and did not effectively address systemic gender inequities. The findings suggest that GTAs should be prioritised in food systems policymaking to address gender inequalities. There is scope for considerable gender inclusion assessment tool and framework development, but the gender inclusion assessment tool used in this study provides a foundational framework for future gender inclusion analysis in global food systems policy development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"136 ","pages":"Article 102943"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145096205","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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Food price stabilization: theory and lessons from experience 粮食价格稳定：理论与经验教训

IF 6 1区经济学

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102945

Paul Dorosh, Nicholas Minot, Shahidur Rashid

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