{"title":"Crop farm efficiency and climate extremes in Germany","authors":"Moritz Hartig, Silke Hüttel, Stefan Seifert","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbaf047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf047","url":null,"abstract":"Using German crop farm data from the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network for 2004–2020, we investigate how weather and climate extremes interact with farm-level inefficiency, accounting for policy. We use a four-component stochastic production frontier model to disentangle farm heterogeneity from persistent and transient inefficiency, and explicitly address economic and econometric endogeneity. We select weather-related determinants of inefficiency using panel random forests. We find that losses associated with one climate extreme day range from 0.15 to 26.31 Euro/hectare. Water-related extremes appear less detrimental than temperature-related extremes. Our results suggest that efficiency can be underestimated if agro-climatic conditions are not acknowledged.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145472856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coupling information provision with sharing rules for water conservation: French farmers’ preferences for data reporting","authors":"Pauline Pedehour, Marianne Lefebvre","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbaf054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf054","url":null,"abstract":"Providing farmers with information on their irrigation efficiency and establishing prioritized access to water accordingly requires data. This study assesses French farmers’ preferences for a scheme incentivizing the adoption of regulated deficit irrigation (RDI). Choice experiment results show that 37–60 per cent of the 202 farmers interviewed are willing to adopt RDI in exchange for priority water access, depending on data requirements. Accounting for data reporting preferences is crucial for enhancing water savings in irrigated systems. While mandatory smart meters reduce the potential water savings due to farmer opposition, most farmers accept reporting cropping patterns.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145472736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shaibu Mellon Bedi, Riccardo Bommarco, Martin Weih, Helena Hansson
{"title":"Intercropping can enhance long-term farm economic performance: Evidence from Swedish agriculture 2001–2018","authors":"Shaibu Mellon Bedi, Riccardo Bommarco, Martin Weih, Helena Hansson","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbaf049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf049","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the long-term economic effects of adopting intercropping using a farm-level dataset from Sweden spanning the period 2001 to 2018. Guided by a causal model framework, specifically a causal path diagram, we apply a debiased fixed-effects method that dynamically incorporates information about past farm performance into the model estimation. We also triangulate the findings from the debiased fixed-effects method with results from both semi-parametric and instrumental variable approaches. Our baseline results indicate that adopting intercropping is associated with a 5–13 per cent increase in farm net income over the long term, with significant variations observed across different farm types. In addition, the findings show that intercropping adoption predicts an increase in the gross value of total production, labor demand and intermediate costs in the long term. Finally, the results reveal that intercropping adoption mitigates the negative effects of extreme climatic conditions on farm net income.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"161 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145472854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matty Demont, Jhoanne Ynion, Marie Claire Custodio, Anindita Ray (Chakravarti), Arindam Samaddar, Suva Kanta Mohanty
{"title":"Nudging consumers toward healthier diets: Evidence from the Food Choice App in India","authors":"Matty Demont, Jhoanne Ynion, Marie Claire Custodio, Anindita Ray (Chakravarti), Arindam Samaddar, Suva Kanta Mohanty","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbaf057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf057","url":null,"abstract":"We develop the Food Choice App (FCA) based on the Gastronomic Systems Research (GSR) framework to study how behavioral change communication (BCC) on healthier diets influences diet planning under income shocks. A sample of 192 low- and middle-income households in West Bengal use the FCA to plan their diets by allocating a randomized weekly food budget among 162 Bengali dishes across five eating occasions over seven weekdays. Budget constraints drive carbohydrate prioritization, but BCC exposure and women’s empowerment significantly increase dietary protein density. Findings underscore the importance of targeted nudges across multiple levels of the Gastronomic System to promote healthier diets.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145472735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arnaud Z Dragicevic, Jean-Christophe Pereau, Serge Garcia
{"title":"Assessing the impact of payments for environmental services on a bioeconomic supply chain equilibrium","authors":"Arnaud Z Dragicevic, Jean-Christophe Pereau, Serge Garcia","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbaf031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf031","url":null,"abstract":"This study evaluates the effectiveness of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) in mitigating both climate change and biodiversity loss within bioeconomic supply chains. Employing a variational inequality approach within a multicriteria decision-making framework, complemented by numerical simulations using an optimized machine learning algorithm, we find that reductions of approximately 50 per cent in greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss are attainable. However, PES alone are insufficient to achieve these targets. A comprehensive strategy—combining a moderate reduction in production through economic decoupling, increased environmental awareness, and targeted incentives—is necessary for meaningful reductions. Our findings also indicate that supply chain participants collectively forgo 11.36 per cent of their profits when internalizing environmental externalities. Meanwhile, consumers are willing to pay only a 4.04 per cent premium for sustainable products, implying that a significant portion of these costs cannot simply be transferred to consumers. Consequently, firms must invest in greener production methods and abatement technologies to sustain profit margins while mitigating environmental impacts.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"130 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145295776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From choice to context: Rethinking food environments, consumer agency and policy action","authors":"Vincenzina Caputo","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbaf041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf041","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional measures of food environments, such as availability, often center on geographic proximity, but in the digital era, proximity is less of a constraint, as consumers browse thousands of food options online. I extend the concept of availability to include what consumers see when buying food online. Using web-scraped data on food-away-from-home offerings from Uber Eats in Michigan, I map retailer presence, product offerings and prices, linking them to nutritional profiles and carbon emissions. I find that the digital food environment is dominated by nutritionally unbalanced, calory-dense and carbon-intensive options. When choice architecture constrains available options, even individuals with strong health and sustainability preferences are unable to make choices aligned with their dietary goals. As these environments are shaped by supply and demand, dual policy strategies are needed to reform what is offered, promoted and priced.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145310800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Small farm enterprises amid war in Ukraine: Disruption channels and resilience patterns","authors":"Monica Schuster, Ibrahima Diouf","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbaf032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf032","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the impact of the 2022 war in Ukraine on small farm enterprises in global value chains. Drawing on nationally representative survey data, we assess initial disruptions to market access, productivity, damages, labor supply, and coping strategies. We analyze how pre-war characteristics—such as farm scale, adaptive capacity, and market orientation—shaped resilience. Results reveal significant disruptions, mainly from productivity losses. The findings underscore the complex interplay between structural features and resilience, identifying scale and adaptive capacity as key mitigating factors, while nuancing the view that diversification always strengthens resilience. The study offers insights to enhance farm resilience amid shocks.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145295673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating technical efficiency at farm level when plot-level data are available","authors":"Yashree Mehta, Bernhard Brümmer","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbaf022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf022","url":null,"abstract":"Ownership of multiple plots by a farmer leads to hierarchical structure of data on production. Researchers use averaging of plot-level technical efficiency scores for computing the farm-level technical efficiency score. With Monte Carlo simulation, we checked the performance of averaging and that of the linear mixed effects model in estimating the true farm efficiency. We generated true efficiency scores under half-normal, normal, and skew-normal distributions of the farm-level random effect. Plot-level score averaging did not estimate the true efficiency. The linear mixed effects model preserved the ranking as well as estimated the true farm-level efficiency score.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145295672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the role of public investment and farm subsidy in driving farm TFP convergence across Indian states","authors":"Nusrat Akber, Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh, Asis Kumar Senapati, Ashok K. Mishra","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbaf051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf051","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines the convergence in total factor productivity (TFP) and its sources across major agricultural states of India between 1990 and 2020. The study uses the system-GMM procedure, panel data and additional convergence analysis between high- and low-income states, as well as the early economic reform (1990–2004) and later economic reform (2005–2020) periods. Findings show an absolute β-convergence for all high- and low-income states during the early reform and later reform periods. Further, an absolute β-convergence shows a faster convergence in the later economic reform period than in the early economic reform period. The conditional β-convergence reveals that public agricultural expenditures enhance TFP growth and convergence. The findings from this study underscore the need for investments in Indian agriculture, particularly in rural infrastructure building, connectivity, farm research and education, warehousing and storage, irrigation development and crop husbandry and rationalization of input subsidies. However, selective input subsidies are a critical source of divergence in TFP and therefore call for rationalization.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"52 5","pages":"1501-1529"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147900202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haiyan Deng, Changxin Yu, Yanhong Jin, Carl E Pray, Chunqing Liu, Lianwu Deng
{"title":"How is China shaping global food supply chains? Insights from the seed industry","authors":"Haiyan Deng, Changxin Yu, Yanhong Jin, Carl E Pray, Chunqing Liu, Lianwu Deng","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbaf017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf017","url":null,"abstract":"China’s global expansion of state-owned enterprises, like ChemChina and Longping High-Tech (LPHT), along with agricultural policy reforms, is revolutionizing global food supply chains. This study investigates the evolution of China’s domestic seed industry, and its growing presence in the global seed market, assesses how Chinese acquisitions and the rise of local companies, such as Syngenta and LPHT, are changing the global market structure, and explores the challenges and opportunities for China and the global seed industry. The findings suggest China’s current global influence is limited, mainly affecting South America’s corn seed sector, though ongoing international collaborations suggest long-term potential for greater global influence.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144566025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}