{"title":"The transition incentive program and women farmers in the USA","authors":"Valentina Hartarska , Eugene Adjei , Denis Nadolnyak","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102739","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102739","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The US Department of Agriculture made women farmers eligible for the Transition Incentive Program (TIP) to improve their access to farmland. TIP is a federal program that transfers near-expiring lands in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) back to agricultural use while maintaining established conservation practices. It offers incentives to landowners and requires recipients to adhere to specific conservation plans on the acquired land. Since women have shown a stronger interest in sustainable practices and face more limited access to land, TIP has the potential to enhance women’s presence in farming. However, the program’s effectiveness has not been evaluated.</div><div>In this paper, we analyze county-level data from the 2017 Census of Agriculture and data on actual TIP use to provide the first estimates of the causal effect of TIP on the presence of women farmers. We use three matching techniques – nearest neighbor, kernel nearest neighbor, and inverse probability weighting – and find a small but statistically significant positive effect. While a comparison of the share of women farmers in non-matched counties with and without TIP-enrolled lands shows that counties with TIP use have fewer women farmers, the matched results indicate that utilizing TIP increased the proportion of women farmers by one percent, or about 805 women, in the study region. The Rosenbaum bounds sensitivity test shows that the results are stable. We conclude that TIP is marginally effective at increasing the number of women in agriculture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 102739"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528502","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 : 2024-10-21DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102741
Sandro Steinbach, Yasin Yildirim, Carlos Zurita
{"title":"Potential implications of trade policy shifts after the 2024 U.S. presidential election for the agri-food sector","authors":"Sandro Steinbach, Yasin Yildirim, Carlos Zurita","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102741","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 102741"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528505","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 : 2024-10-17DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102735
Karan S. Shakya , Leah E.M. Bevis , Andrew L. Thorne-Lyman
{"title":"Diet and disease: Examining the seasonal determinants of children’s health in Senegal","authors":"Karan S. Shakya , Leah E.M. Bevis , Andrew L. Thorne-Lyman","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102735","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102735","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Seasonal changes in food availability and disease incidence put pressure on children’s health in Sub-Sahara Africa. Using year-round survey data from Senegal, we examine how seasonality in key health inputs (dietary diversity, diarrhea, and fever) helps predict seasonality in children’s health (weight-for-height z-score). We first parameterize seasonal variation in health and health inputs using second-order trigonometric polynomials, then decompose the seasonal curve of children’s health into component parts explained by seasonality in each health input. We find that lagged seasonality in disease incidence predicts seasonality in child health, while seasonality in dietary diversity does not — likely because diets are poor in Senegal even during the most food-plentiful part of the year. We also observe noticeable heterogeneity in the way these health inputs predict children’s health across different wealth levels and regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 102735"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142446395","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 : 2024-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102737
Arouna Kouandou , Inès Pérolde Zeh
{"title":"Insuring consumption against Shocks: The role of informal savings in Nigeria","authors":"Arouna Kouandou , Inès Pérolde Zeh","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102737","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102737","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In most low-income countries, households are exposed to a plethora of economic shocks with welfare-reducing consequences. In the absence of well-functioning financial markets, most households rely on informal savings through credit clubs/groups to reduce their vulnerability to these shocks. In this paper, we examine the extent to which participation in informal savings associations affects the ability of households to smooth their consumption in the face of both idiosyncratic and covariate shocks. Using a difference-in-difference fixed effects specification on the Nigerian household-level panel that spans four waves over eight years, with data collected in 2010/2011, 2012/2013, 2015/2016 and 2018/2019, we documented heterogenous effects of informal savings. The results suggest that informal savings help households to hedge consumption against rainfall shocks. We find heterogeneous effects of informal savings in insuring consumption against idiosyncratic shocks, depending on whether households live in urban or rural areas. These results provide new insights into the role of informal financial arrangements in sub-Saharan Africa.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 102737"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142438054","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 : 2024-10-11DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102730
Xuqi Chen , Zhifeng Gao , Lisa House , Yujuan Gao
{"title":"Do color-coded Nutrition Facts Panels nudge the use of nutrition information?","authors":"Xuqi Chen , Zhifeng Gao , Lisa House , Yujuan Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102730","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102730","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nutrition Facts labels or Nutrition Facts Panel(s) (NFP) are a critical channel for communicating food nutrition information to consumers. A fundamental question is how to help consumers effectively understand and use the label without missing important information. This paper introduces a color-coded NFP and investigates its impacts on information search and consumer behavior, such as attention to information, food choice, and food health perception. Results show that the color-coded NFP attracts more attention than a black-and-white NFP, specifically for nutrients such as fat, sodium, and sugars, which should be limited. Additionally, the color-coded NFP made it easier for consumers to make food purchase decisions and led consumers to make healthier choices for some products (e.g., chips). Finally, the color-coded NFP reduces the time needed and contributes to a more accurate evaluation of the products’ healthiness in the case of chips, reducing the information processing costs and increasing the utilization of information. Our research demonstrates that the color-coded NFP is more attractive, efficient, and effective in delivering nutrition information and contributes to a healthier decision for some products (e.g., chips) than the traditional NFP.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 102730"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142434034","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102736
Lijun Summerhayes , Douglas Baker
{"title":"Trans-Governance and Food Systems (Tr-GaF) for food policy integration: A case study of the Australian food policy landscape","authors":"Lijun Summerhayes , Douglas Baker","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102736","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102736","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food policy integration is critical for sustainability as urban food policies become a new norm in the policy agenda. Yet, little research demonstrates how food policies are integrated with food systems and across governance to achieve urban sustainability.<!--> <!-->This paper presents the <strong><u>Tr</u></strong>ans-<strong><u>G</u></strong>overnance <u>a</u>nd <strong><u>F</u></strong>ood Systems (<em>Tr-GaF</em>) framework for food policy integration developed to evaluate the Australian food policy landscape. The analysis of 102 food-relevant policy documents sourced from multiple government institutions in Queensland, Western Australia, and Victoria identifies limited food policy integration in Australia, with little attention paid to food-related urban planning. Policy misalignments arise in the agrifood economy, health and well-being, and environment and ecology domains, with horizontal and vertical fragmentation across governance levels and sectors. Inadequate integration with food systems further jeopardises the efficiency of urban food supply chains and consumption activities. These three prominent issues collectively stifle urban sustainability by economically restraining food supply chain actors’ ability to innovate and compete. While environmental imbalance worsens, urbanites inevitably face barriers to maintaining health and social well-being. <em>Tr-GaF</em> provides an evidenced-based framework for policymakers to evaluate and integrate food policies anchored in food systems governed by collaborative multi-scalar government agencies, institutions, food industries, and civil society. In doing so, urban development can sustainably evolve economically, socially, and environmentally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102736"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428156","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102727
Anders Van Sandt, Dawn Thilmany, Lauren Gwin
{"title":"A comment on USDA Food Business Centers: Collaborations to nurture innovation in the food system","authors":"Anders Van Sandt, Dawn Thilmany, Lauren Gwin","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102727","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102727","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102727"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356740","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102731
Olayinka Aremu, Anna Fabry, Eva-Marie Meemken
{"title":"Farm size and the quality and quantity of jobs—Insights from Nigeria","authors":"Olayinka Aremu, Anna Fabry, Eva-Marie Meemken","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102731","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102731","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Debates on the role of farm size for farm productivity and economic development are longstanding in agricultural and development economics. However, the link between farm size and achieving decent work and full employment—Sustainable Development Goal 8—remains unexplored, despite many African countries facing huge unemployment challenges alongside important changes in farm sizes. This paper addresses this gap by focusing on Nigeria’s labor-intensive tomato sector and using unique primary data from a matched farm-to-worker survey. We analyze the relationship between farm size and both the quantity and quality of jobs, which has never been studied before, employing multivariate regression analysis. Additionally, we account for factors that commonly differentiate larger and smaller farms, including technology use, market arrangement, crop diversification, and the reliance on seasonal versus casual labor. Our findings reveal a trade-off: smaller farms offer more jobs per hectare, while larger farms offer better jobs (i.e., higher wages and some non-monetary benefits). We conclude that neither larger nor smaller farms fully align with all dimensions of decent work and full employment, highlighting the need for greater policy and research focus on the employment quality versus quantity dilemma.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102731"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356741","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102734
Elza S. Elmira , Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu , Matin Qaim
{"title":"Marriage customs and nutritional status of men and women","authors":"Elza S. Elmira , Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu , Matin Qaim","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102734","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102734","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Malnutrition remains a serious problem. While various nutrition policies exist, these often fail to consider cultural factors. We contribute to the literature on culture and nutrition, focusing on gendered differences in nutritional investment. Using representative panel data from Indonesia covering a period of 21 years, we analyze how ethnicity-based marriage customs are linked to the body mass index (BMI) of men and women. Patrilocal practices are positively associated with male BMI and negatively associated with female BMI, suggesting discrimination against women. Matrilocal practices are positively associated with female BMI when comparing with women in other cultural settings, but not when comparing with men. The practice of bridewealth is positively associated with male and female BMI when comparing to individuals in settings without this cultural practice. Wherever positive associations between marriage customs and BMI are observed, these are largest for those already overweight, whereas the negative association been patrilocality and female BMI is most pronounced among women who are underweight. Our findings suggest that marriage customs may reinforce nutritional inequalities. A better understanding of such links in different cultural settings is important for effective nutritional policies, especially given that different malnutrition problems coexist in many countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102734"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428157","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}
Food PolicyPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102733
Wei Yang , Di Fang , Jada M. Thompson , Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.
{"title":"Public acceptance of beef carbon tax earmarks","authors":"Wei Yang , Di Fang , Jada M. Thompson , Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102733","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102733","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The escalating effects of climate change make it important to find ways to offset the carbon burden. One way to do so is to reduce beef consumption, since cattle production creates large amounts of greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming and climate change. In this study, we explore US consumers’ perceptions of alternative beef products. Specifically, we test the effects of three types of earmark information on consumers’ valuation of a beef carbon tax related to hamburger meat through two labeled discrete choice experiments. Our results show that earmark information can be effective in reducing the negative impact of an environmental tax on consumers’ willingness to pay for beef products. This study contributes to a better understanding of how consumers would bear environmental taxes for beef and alternative products.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102733"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428155","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}