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{"title":"Assessing water-energy-food nexus efficiency for food security planning in China","authors":"Lina Zhang ,&nbsp;Haolin Yang ,&nbsp;Yixin Chen ,&nbsp;Yung-ho Chiu ,&nbsp;Qinghua Pang ,&nbsp;Chenyu Sun ,&nbsp;Zhen Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102902","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102902","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Incorporating food security into the water-energy-food nexus, thereby establishing a water-energy-food-food security (WEF-FS) system, fosters multifaceted challenges of achieving food security. An extended dynamic series-loop data envelopment analysis model assesses WEF-FS efficiency by analyzing element interactions to identify inefficiencies and improvements. Kernel density estimation and standard deviation ellipse analysis explore spatiotemporal trends and provincial discrepancies in WEF-FS efficiency, guiding targeted policies. A two-way fixed effects model is constructed to investigate the impact of climate change on the WEF-FS efficiency. Findings include: (1) The proposed model efficiently handles interlinked activities within a unified framework. The average overall efficiency of China’s WEF-FS system during 2011–2021 across 30 provinces was 0.77. Eastern regions excelled in water/energy subsystems, while western regions performed better in food/food security subsystems. (2) Provincial disparities in WEF-FS efficiency narrowed from 2013 to 2021, but issues related to food affordability, quality and safety remained critical challenges, particularly in the central region. Spatial variations aligned with a northeast-southwest axis, with the efficiency centroid in Henan shifting southeastward. (3) Climate change reduced WEF-FS efficiency via temperature and precipitation; Major Grain-Producing Regions buffer while Non-Major Grain-Producing Regions face tech-driven losses, with post-2016 reforms reversing impact. Regional characteristics must inform food security planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102902"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222219","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":"Can we improve the healthiness of online food purchases through the Nutri-Score and site design?","authors":"E. Godden ,&nbsp;N. Dens ,&nbsp;B. Coppens ,&nbsp;L. Thornton","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102899","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102899","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To encourage healthier food choices, several European countries have adopted the Nutri-Score front-of-pack label. This voluntary label was designed for products on display within supermarkets. Despite the digital transition, the impact of Nutri-Score in an online environment remains under-researched. This study assesses the impact of three Nutri-Score interventions on online food purchasing. Belgian participants (N = 1151) shopped for groceries in a purpose-built Virtual Online Supermarket with a prescribed shopping list. Participants were randomly assigned to one of seven conditions comprising up to three interventions: Nutri-Score presence (no/yes), default product sorting by Nutri-Score (yes/no), and the options to filter and sort by Nutri-Score (no/yes). The outcomes of interest were mean UK Food Standards Agency nutrient profiling system diet score and the percentage of and expenditure on food items with Nutri-Score A, B, C, D, and E. Compared to the control group, the mere presence of Nutri-Scores did not affect the outcomes of interest. Changing the default sorting from alphabetically to by healthiness improved the mean diet score, increased the purchase of items with Nutri-Scores A and B, and reduced the purchase of items with Nutri-Scores D and E. In contrast, when present, the user-driven options to filter and sort the products by healthiness were barely used (&lt;10 %), and this intervention didn’t change purchases. In sum, changing the default sorting of products so that healthier products appear first may encourage consumers to buy healthier.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102899"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222220","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":"Corporate concentration and power matter for agency in food systems","authors":"Jennifer Clapp ,&nbsp;Rachael Vriezen ,&nbsp;Amar Laila ,&nbsp;Costanza Conti ,&nbsp;Line Gordon ,&nbsp;Christina Hicks ,&nbsp;Nitya Rao","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102897","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102897","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>High levels of corporate concentration and power in agrifood supply chains raise important policy concerns because they can affect food systems in adverse ways. In this paper, we argue that increased corporate concentration and power in food systems has the capacity to undermine people’s agency– that is, their capability to make choices and exercise their voice. We explore three dimensions of the relationship between concentrated corporate power and people’s agency in food systems. First, dominant firms within highly concentrated food system segments can exercise market power, which enables them to earn excess profits – often by charging higher prices, suppressing wages, and weakening livelihood opportunities. Second, dominant agrifood firms have the capacity to shape material conditions within food systems – determining prevailing technologies used in food production, working conditions, levels of processing of packaged food items, and food environments – in ways that can affect people’s choices. Third, dominant agrifood firms can exercise political power by actively pursuing strategies to influence food policy and governance processes via lobbying and other more indirect measures, weakening opportunities for broader democratic participation in food systems governance. Given these potential outcomes, more policy attention should be paid to corporate concentration and its implications for agency within food systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102897"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212227","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":"A comparison of the effects of local and EAT-Lancet dietary recommendations on selected economic and environmental outcomes in India","authors":"Vartika Singh ,&nbsp;Miodrag Stevanović ,&nbsp;Benjamin Leon Bodirsky ,&nbsp;Abhijeet Mishra ,&nbsp;Ranjan Kumar Ghosh ,&nbsp;Alexander Popp ,&nbsp;Hermann Lotze-Campen","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102898","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102898","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global discourse is nearly unanimous that dietary transitions are crucial to achieve sustainability goals. In this context, healthy dietary recommendations offer demand-side solutions towards minimizing environmental impacts from food production. However, these guidelines have also faced some criticism for their blanket approach and limited consideration of regional preferences. Using a validated food-economy-environment integrated modelling framework, we compare between two types of healthy diets − the globally recommended EAT-Lancet diets and Indian government’s National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) local diets − by examining their impacts on agricultural production, agricultural commodity prices, food expenditures, trade impacts, Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and water withdrawals. Our results suggest that the adoption of regional recommendations (NIN diets) lead to better outcomes for select economic and environmental indicators. When India shifts to NIN diet, its domestic demand for cereal crops decreases, leading to a 36 % reduction in cereal crop production by 2050 and change in demand for sugars and animal-sourced foods (ASFs). This has the potential to reduce commodity prices of food by upto 24 % by 2050. A shift to the NIN diet in India reduces methane (CH₄) emissions by 36 % and N₂O by 35 % compared to business-as-usual, performing better than the EAT-Lancet diet, which reduces CH₄ emissions by 13 %. Water withdrawals reduce almost by the same value under both the dietary scenarios primarily due to lesser dependence on cereal crops and livestock products. These findings remain consistent in our sensitivity analysis, with varying global trade scenarios, offering greater benefits of food systems transformation through liberal trade policies. Our analysis underscores the pivotal role of regional inclusivity in global assessments, enhancing our comprehension of how food systems can be reimagined to align with both food security and environmental sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102898"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144205491","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":"Poor health and food insecurity among food assistance recipients: Evidence from France","authors":"Romane Vandroux ,&nbsp;François-Charles Wolff","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102895","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102895","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the relationship between food insecurity and poor health among food assistance recipients in France using a dataset collected in 2021 from nearly 4,000 respondents. For these individuals from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, food assistance may eliminate the association between food insecurity and health reported in surveys of the general population. Regression estimates show a strong positive association between food insecurity and poor health (self-reported health, chronic disease, activity limitation). This correlation is significantly higher for native respondents than for migrants. After accounting for the endogeneity of food insecurity through a free-instrument approach that estimates bounds, we confirm the positive association between food insecurity and poor health. The low frequency of visits to food banks may explain why food insecurity persists among participants and continues to affect health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102895"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147946","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":"Assessing the social risk of high-protein food alternatives using the social life cycle assessment","authors":"Cecere Giuseppe ,&nbsp;Azarkamand Sahar ,&nbsp;Bala Alba ,&nbsp;Sazdovski Ilija ,&nbsp;Fullana-i-Palmer Pere ,&nbsp;Lucia Rigamonti","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102894","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102894","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapidly increasing global population presents important challenges in ensuring adequate and nutritious food, especially when accounting for the associated social and environmental impacts. This paper investigates the social risks associated with different protein sources, focusing on animal-based and plant-based options. Specifically, it assesses the risk of four main protein products in the Spanish market: meat, dairy, fish, and agricultural products.</div><div>Social risks are evaluated using the Social Life Cycle Assessment methodology. In this study, social risks are assessed for four social stakeholder categories: workers, local community, value chain, and society using the Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment database. The functional unit is based on the daily recommended protein intake for human consuption, considering the protein content of each product, with products classified into four main categories: meat, dairy products, agricultural products (plant-based), and fish and other fishing products (seafoods). To make a final comparison the results were compared to the results of the social risks assessment of 1 kg of the same products.</div><div>Based on daily requirements intake of functional unit, the highest social risks are observed in the workers and local community stakeholder category. For workers, the most significant risks are seen in fair salary, non-fatal accidents, and trade unionism indicators, with fishing and other fishing products having the highest impacts. For the local community, biomass consumption indicator has the highest risk, while fishing products show the highest risk among all protein sources. Using different functional units can significantly change the results. When assessing social risks based on 1 kg of protein product produced by the sector, all four protein groups exhibit similar social risk values. The lowest social risk is observed in meat production on society (21 %), fish and other fishing products on the value chain (21 %), and agricultural products on workers (21 %). In contrast, the highest social risk is associated with the manufacturing of dairy products, affecting the local community (29 %). However, when assessing social risks based on daily recommended protein intake, the risks vary significantly. The lowest risk is observed for agricultural products on workers (14 %), while the highest risk is associated with fish and other fishing products on society (42 %).</div><div>The findings reveal that different functional units can significantly alter the interpretation of social risks, underscoring the need for careful consideration in comparative assessments. This study highlights the critical role of social risk assessments in supporting sustainable food systems and informing policy and consumer decisions beyond nutritional and environmental aspects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102894"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144125198","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":"Citizen voice and state response in the context of food system transformations","authors":"Nitya Rao ,&nbsp;Emma Marzi ,&nbsp;Isabel Baudish ,&nbsp;Amar Laila ,&nbsp;Costanza Conti ,&nbsp;Christina C. Hicks","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102879","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102879","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper reviews the dynamic interplay between food activism and state responses, focusing on the diverse ways and strategies used by food movements to advocate for food systems transformation. More so, in a context of growing corporate control in food systems, food activism has been promoting just and sustainable alternatives. State reactions have been evolving, ranging from repression to policy change, to, in some cases, collaboration. Through a combination of summative content analysis of key themes across the literature and a thematic exploration of case studies, the paper highlights key trends in food activism and examines how governments have responded to them. By analysing the interactions between citizens and governments, this paper offers insights for both activists and policymakers seeking to build more inclusive and participatory food governance structures, in their efforts to transform food systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102879"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144098638","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":"Insurance without formal insurance: the buffering role of social capital in rural Ethiopia","authors":"Abraham Seyoum Gonfa ,&nbsp;Jonse Bane Boka ,&nbsp;Getnet Alemu Zewdu","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102880","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102880","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The literature is unclear whether social capital can insure effectively against shocks. We provide evidence from rural Ethiopia, a setting characterized by prevalent shocks, lack of formal insurance markets, and functioning informal traditional institutions, using four waves of household panel surveys with over 6000 observations. We measure social capital as the social network-based resources available to rural households via local informal institutions, alternatively measured as network size, network diversity, and simple membership in institutions. Fixed effect estimation results show that the buffering role of social capital extends beyond insurance against idiosyncratic shocks, with variation across welfare and social capital measures. Social capital helps protect against multiple and simultaneous shocks, buffering shortfalls in not only total consumption but also food and consumables consumption. Rural households thus benefit from informal insurance in local institutions in the absence of formal insurance markets. Rural insurance policies and efforts to address food insecurity and rural development challenges should consider resources embedded in these institutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102880"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144089055","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":"Rural Economy-wide Impacts of Kenya’s Home-Grown School Meals Program","authors":"Anubhab Gupta ,&nbsp;Miki Khanh Doan ,&nbsp;Heng Zhu ,&nbsp;Edward Whitney ,&nbsp;Mateusz Filipski ,&nbsp;Ernesto Gonzalez-Estrada ,&nbsp;David Ryckembusch ,&nbsp;J. Edward Taylor","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102887","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102887","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>School feeding programs can generate significant economic benefits in rural areas when schools purchase food from local producers, producer associations, or traders, who in turn source food locally or from other parts of the country. Utilizing primary survey data on schools, households, businesses, and traders across five representative counties in Kenya, we estimate the economy-wide impacts of Kenya’s Home-Grown School Meals Program (HGSMP). Our applied general equilibrium model integrates local economies of both HGSMP and high-productivity (HP) food-source counties to estimate direct and indirect spillover effects. Every Kenyan shilling (KSH) allocated to HGSMP schools generates an <em>additional</em> 1.02 KSH of inflation-adjusted income within HGSMP counties and 0.24 KSH in HP counties, leading to a total inflation-adjusted income multiplier of 2.26 in the local economy. On average, each additional school covered by HGSMP has the potential to generate KSH 1.43 million in annual income in Kenya’s rural economy, substantially exceeding the cost of feeding the school. This study highlights that school feeding programs not only improve children’s human capital outcomes but also create economic benefits for rural economies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102887"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144084513","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":"Are you s(ec)ure? assessing the sensitivity of land tenure security estimates to survey design choices","authors":"Sydney Gourlay ,&nbsp;Giuseppe Maggio ,&nbsp;Anahit Safyan ,&nbsp;Alberto Zezza","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102888","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102888","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Land tenure security is critically linked to several dimensions of development, including increased access to credit, investment, productivity, food security, and intra-household bargaining power, among others. Inequities across and within households, including productivity differentials, can be traced to and explained by difference in access to land. Despite being featured in two SDG indicators, very few countries have adequate data to understand and monitor land tenure security. Remedying that demands a shift from household-level data collection to more and better data on individual-level land rights. This paper leverages a unique methodological experiment in Armenia to rigorously examine the implications of respondent strategy and data collection level on land tenure data quality in the context of SDG monitoring. Findings from the randomization of households across treatment arms reveal significant differences in the estimation of certain land tenure components, especially when using proxy respondents at the parcel level. Gender disparities in land rights are prevalent, with men consistently reporting higher land tenure security than women across all measurement methods, with the point estimates of the implied gender gap varying with survey design choice. Heterogeneity and further analyses also shed light on a set of trade-offs deriving from factors such as areas of residence and gender of the reporting individual, financial constraints, survey structure, and respondent fatigue. The study contributes to the understanding of land tenure measurement and aligns with broader initiatives aimed at efficiently collecting comparable individual-level data at scale while informing policy decisions and SDG reporting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 102888"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144084514","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}