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Agricultural Economics and the Transformation Toward Sustainable Agri-Food Systems 农业经济学和向可持续农业粮食系统转型

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70023

Matin Qaim, Martin C. Parlasca

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Measuring Food Access as Affordability of Least-Cost Healthy Diets Worldwide 以全球最廉价健康饮食的可负担性衡量食物获取

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70028

William A. Masters, Jessica K. Wallingford, Anna W. Herforth, Yan Bai

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Seeding Change: Growing Insights From Four Programs to Support Climate-Resilient Soil and Water Conservation in US Agriculture 播种变化：从支持美国农业气候适应性水土保持的四个项目中获得越来越多的见解

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70034

Elinor Benami, Anne Carroll, Kent D. Messer, Wei Zhang, Michael Cecil

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Climate Resilient Development for Agriculture and Pathways for Gender Inclusivity 气候适应型农业发展和性别包容之路

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70040

Sonia Akter

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Healthy and Sustainable Diets in China and Their Global Implications 中国的健康和可持续饮食及其全球影响

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70020

Yumei Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Shenggen Fan

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Novel Approaches to Analyze Consumer Behavior and Policies to Promote Sustainable Consumption 分析消费者行为的新方法和促进可持续消费的政策

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70027

Bhagyashree Katare, Xuejian Wang, Shuoli Zhao, Jacqueline Yenerall

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From Bargaining Power to Empowerment: Measuring the Unmeasurable 从议价能力到授权：测量不可测量的

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70022

Agnes R. Quisumbing

{"title":"From Bargaining Power to Empowerment: Measuring the Unmeasurable","authors":"Agnes R. Quisumbing","doi":"10.1111/agec.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70022","url":null,"abstract":"Measuring power is central to empirical work on intrahousehold and gender relations. This paper reviews how progress in the measurement of power within households has facilitated our understanding of household decision-making and creates new opportunities for programs and policy. Early efforts to test household models focused on measuring spousal bargaining power, usually in models featuring two decision-makers within the household. Proxy measures for bargaining power included age, education, assets, and “outside options” that could affect spouses’ threat points within marriage. Evidence rejecting the collective model of the household has influenced the design of policies and programs, notably conditional cash transfer programs. Efforts have since shifted to measuring empowerment, drawing on theories of agency and power. Since 2010, several measures of women's empowerment have been developed, including the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and its variants. A distinct feature of the WEAI, like other counting-based measures, is its decomposability into its component indicators, which makes identifying sources of disempowerment possible. The WEAI indicators also embody jointness of decision-making or ownership, which better reflects actual decision-making within households compared to 2-person bargaining models. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research.","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 3","pages":"419-430"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reimagining Agriculture for Growth, Poverty, Nutrition, and Sustainability 重塑农业促进增长、贫困、营养和可持续性

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70015

Ramesh Chand

{"title":"Reimagining Agriculture for Growth, Poverty, Nutrition, and Sustainability","authors":"Ramesh Chand","doi":"10.1111/agec.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Since the seminal work of Arthur Lewis in the 1950s, the development economics literature has emphasized the structural transformation of the economy marked by a decline in the share of agriculture in the economy's output and employment in the development process. Based on this literature, policy emphasis for growth and development tilted toward manufacturing and other non-agricultural sectors. Lately, there has been a realization that the importance of agriculture for the economy and society is much larger than what is revealed by its share in GDP. Evidence indicates that changes in occupation structure followed changes in output structure with a long-time gap in several countries. This dissonance has serious implications for employment and disparities in per-worker income in agriculture and non-agriculture, further related to poverty. Hunger globally and in many countries has increased after 2015 despite per capita food output increases. Agriculture is also a significant contributor to climate change and unsustainable use of natural resources and, therefore, can play a critical role in combating climate change. It is imperative to reimagine the role of agriculture in development and its contribution to reducing poverty and combating malnutrition and climate change.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 3","pages":"485-492"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Economic Analysis of Global and Local Policies for Respecting Planetary Boundaries 尊重地球边界的全球和地方政策的经济分析

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70008

Thomas W. Hertel

{"title":"Economic Analysis of Global and Local Policies for Respecting Planetary Boundaries","authors":"Thomas W. Hertel","doi":"10.1111/agec.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70008","url":null,"abstract":"In a series of highly cited papers over the period of 2009–2023, earth system scientists have identified a set of nine planetary boundaries that must not be breached if we wish to avoid catastrophic consequences for nature and humanity. These range from well-mixed, global boundaries, such as climate-altering atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, to localized limits on freshwater availability and reactive nitrogen entering the environment. Recent estimates suggest that six of the nine planetary boundaries have already been breached. The food system is a key driver of these exceedances and, therefore, must play a key role in any solutions. However, the establishment of these boundaries and the analysis of potential solutions have often been devoid of economic considerations. Furthermore, in the case of several of these planetary boundaries, limited attention has been given to the economic policies that might allow society to address them, as well as the likely synergies and tradeoffs across economic policies targeted to individual objectives. This paper seeks to bring further economic analysis to bear on the quantitative assessment of global and local economic policies aimed at respecting these planetary boundaries, concluding with seven lessons to inform future research on this topic.","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 3","pages":"336-348"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Satellite Data in Agricultural and Environmental Economics: Theory and Practice 农业与环境经济学中的卫星数据：理论与实践

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-16 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70006

David Wuepper, Wyclife Agumba Oluoch, Hadi Hadi

{"title":"Satellite Data in Agricultural and Environmental Economics: Theory and Practice","authors":"David Wuepper, Wyclife Agumba Oluoch, Hadi Hadi","doi":"10.1111/agec.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70006","url":null,"abstract":"Agricultural and environmental economists are in the fortunate position that a lot of what is happening on the ground is observable from space. Most agricultural production happens in the open and one can see from space when and where innovations are adopted, crop yields change, or forests are converted to pastures, to name just a few examples. However, converting remotely sensed images into measurements of a particular variable is not trivial, as there are more pitfalls and nuances than “meet the eye”. Overall, however, research benefits tremendously from advances in available satellite data as well as complementary tools, such as cloud-based platforms, machine learning algorithms, and econometric approaches. Our goal here is to provide agricultural and environmental economists with an accessible introduction to working with satellite data, show-case applications, discuss pitfalls and available solutions, and emphasize the best practices. This is supported by extensive supporting information, where we describe how to create different variables, common workflows, and a discussion of required resources and skills. Last but not least, example data and reproducible codes are made available online.","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 3","pages":"493-511"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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