J. Zeilinger, A. Niedermayr, Abdul Quddoos, J. Kantelhardt
{"title":"Identifying under-adaptation of farms to climate change","authors":"J. Zeilinger, A. Niedermayr, Abdul Quddoos, J. Kantelhardt","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbac025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac025","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Adaptation is a key strategy to mitigate the detrimental effects of climate change on agriculture. Econometric studies are extensively used to account for adaptation within impact assessment, but are generally based on the assumption of fully adapted farms. Building on increasing evidence of potential limitations of adaptation, we develop a conceptual framework which allows us to relax this assumption and empirically analyse climate change adaptation at the farm level. Our findings indicate under-adaptation of Austrian farms, contradicting the assumption of full adaptation. In the context of ongoing climate change, this calls for further development and implementation of effective farm-level adaptation measures.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42083505","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}
Iordanis Parikoglou, G. Emvalomatis, F. Thorne, M. Wallace
{"title":"Farm Advisory Services and total factor productivity growth in the Irish dairy sector","authors":"Iordanis Parikoglou, G. Emvalomatis, F. Thorne, M. Wallace","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbac024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac024","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper investigates the impact of the engagement of individual farmers with Farm Advisory Services (FAS) on total factor productivity (TFP) growth, as a relevant indicator of competitiveness under the vision of sustainable intensification. Using farm-level data from the Irish dairy sector between 2008 and 2017, we estimate a random-coefficients stochastic frontier model and construct a TFP growth index, extending Orea (2002) such that the contribution of FAS becomes an additional component of the index. The results indicate that the main driver of TFP growth was technical change and efficiency gains; a negative scale effect slowed down TFP growth, but this impact was counteracted by the positive contribution of FAS to productivity growth.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46696703","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":"Who are the loss-averse farmers? Experimental evidence from structurally estimated risk preferences","authors":"I. Bonjean","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbac020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Even though recognised to be of increasing importance, robust estimations of European farmers’ risk preferences are still scarce. Using an incentivised lab-in-the-field experiment with farmers, free of learning bias, this paper analyses the structurally derived parameters of risk preferences based on the cumulative prospect theory. The sector studied is the apple and pear sector in Flanders, Belgium. Farmers are found to be highly risk-averse and to distort probabilities by overweighting a small probability of desirable outcomes. However, there is no evidence of loss aversion on average, unlike previous studies. Moreover, investigating the heterogeneous effects shows that some farmers significantly differ from the representative agent by still being extremely loss-averse. The results of this piece of research prove the need to consider heterogeneity within and across sectors when assessing farmers’ risk preferences.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44085094","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":"Ex post analysis of the crop diversification measure of CAP greening in France","authors":"A. Sauquet","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbac022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac022","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, we quantify the impact of the crop diversification measure implemented in France as part of the 2013 common agricultural policy greening reform. We exploit a discontinuity in the constraints imposed on farms larger and smaller than 30 ha, respectively, and apply regression differences-in-differences with a regression discontinuity set-up on land use data collected from a representative sample of French farmers. We find that farms greater than 30 ha increased compliance with the measure and the number of crops grown on their lands and that farms larger and smaller than 30 ha responded differently to the reform.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45543393","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}
Bradley Rickard, Shuay-Tsyr Ho, F. Livat, A. Okrent
{"title":"Date labels, food waste and supply chain implications","authors":"Bradley Rickard, Shuay-Tsyr Ho, F. Livat, A. Okrent","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbac021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We developed a survey to collect information on consumers’ intentions to discard 15 food products when exposed to different date labels. Results show that the use of certain date labels has the capacity to reduce food waste, but the reductions would happen differentially across food groups. When we examine the nutritional implications, we find that a shift from the ‘Best by’ date label to the ‘Best if Used by’ date label would increase total household purchases of energy and lead to a disproportional increase in purchases of fats, cholesterol and protein.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43078927","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":"Experimental quantity, mental budgeting and food choice: a discrete choice experiment application","authors":"Wen Lin, D. L. Ortega, Vincenzina Caputo","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbac017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Food discrete choice experiments typically define product alternatives with a researcher-predetermined and sometimes arbitrary quantity. Results reveal that the use of a researcher-prespecified experimental quantity leads to biased welfare estimates. Differences in marginal utility of money are found with a resulting upward bias in willingness to pay estimates when small pre-defined product quantities are used. Higher-income consumers show more evident bias. This evidence cautions the use of a researcher-predetermined quantity to design alternatives in choice tasks and also proposes an alternative experimental design that accounts for these effects by matching the quantity in experiments to consumer’s actual purchase quantity.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42697991","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":"Correction to: Careers in arm’s-length contracting: evidence from the Chilean wine-grape market","authors":"Pilar A. Jano, Brent Hueth","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbac016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49428054","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":"On the effects of COVID-19 on food prices in India: a time-varying approach","authors":"L. Emediegwu, O. Nnadozie","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbac015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac015","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Since the inception of the novel coronavirus, immense research efforts have been made to understand how several economic indicators, including food security, would be affected. With India racing behind the United States in terms of daily infection rate and being a country with challenging food security issues, it is important to investigate how the presence of the pandemic has influenced the dynamics of food prices in the country. This paper considers seven price series from 167 markets across the five regions in India as well as the growth rate of COVID-19 infection. The paper uses a time-varying autoregressive model to investigate the nonlinear dynamics of food prices in relation to the pandemic in India. The resultant models reveal strong asymmetric properties with shock-inflicted persistence, which appear not to converge over the simulation period. Moreover, in terms of the location of the burden of the pandemic impact, we find a food product divide.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46941255","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}
Cristiano Franceschinis, R. Scarpa, L. Rossetto, M. Thiene
{"title":"Is local and organic produce less satiating? Some evidence from a field experiment","authors":"Cristiano Franceschinis, R. Scarpa, L. Rossetto, M. Thiene","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbac014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We investigate consumers’ preferences towards local and organic food via a framed field experiment involving revealed multiple discrete–continuous choices. Participants were endowed with a cash amount as a budget to purchase any desired quantity of different products. We modelled choices via the multiple discrete–continuous nested extreme value model. Central to our investigation is the test of the hypothesis of the constant effect of attitudes across consumption doses, which is normally an assumption invoked a priori and without testing in discrete choice analyses. Our results support the hypothesis and reveal a strong preference towards organic and local products, associated with both the highest baseline utility and the lowest satiation effect.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46017713","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}
Stefano Ciliberti, Simone Severini, Maria Giovanna Ranalli, Luigi Biagini, Angelo Frascarelli
{"title":"Do direct payments efficiently support incomes of small and large farms?","authors":"Stefano Ciliberti, Simone Severini, Maria Giovanna Ranalli, Luigi Biagini, Angelo Frascarelli","doi":"10.1093/erae/jbac013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac013","url":null,"abstract":"This paper assesses how efficiently Common Agricultural Policy direct payments enhance farm incomes by applying a quantile continuous treatment effect model on the Italian Farm Accountancy Data Network sample. Adding to previous analyses, we show that income responses to direct payments are higher in large farms rather than in small farms and lower in farms benefiting from larger levels of support. This suggests that direct payments are not very efficient in supporting incomes of small farms and reducing the disparity existing within the farm population. Furthermore, results suggest that there is scope to reduce the amount of payments provided to highly supported farms.","PeriodicalId":50476,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Agricultural Economics","volume":"131 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138504591","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}