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{"title":"Agricultural Economics and the Transformation Toward Sustainable Agri-Food Systems","authors":"Matin Qaim,&nbsp;Martin C. Parlasca","doi":"10.1111/agec.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Agri-food systems around the world are facing a sustainability crisis. Addressing the many interconnected issues requires fundamental transformations, moving beyond incremental improvements of various details toward broader and more profound systemic change. In this article, which is also the introduction to the ICAE 2024 Special Issue, we explore the role of our agricultural economics profession in shaping these transformation processes, examining how our discipline contributes to understanding agri-food system dynamics and identifying opportunities to enhance sustainability and resilience. We argue that agricultural economists can and should play a more central role in international agri-food systems research and policy initiatives by integrating multiple sustainability goals and metrics with rigorous economic analysis. Interdisciplinary cooperation with colleagues in agronomy, nutrition, environmental sciences, social and political sciences, and other relevant fields is necessary, as is the further development and use of data-driven approaches. However, equally important is maintaining strong theoretical foundations to develop hypotheses and understand behavioral mechanisms. Close exchange with nonacademic stakeholders at all system levels is key for policy relevance. We also provide an overview of the plenary papers presented at ICAE 2024 on various facets of agri-food system transformation and sustainable development.</p>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 3","pages":"327-335"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091618","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}

{"title":"Measuring Food Access as Affordability of Least-Cost Healthy Diets Worldwide","authors":"William A. Masters,&nbsp;Jessica K. Wallingford,&nbsp;Anna W. Herforth,&nbsp;Yan Bai","doi":"10.1111/agec.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since 2020, the World Bank, FAO, and others have measured a population's access to sufficient nutritious food for an active and healthy life using a new metric known as the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diets (CoAHD). This new kind of data measures food access using market prices of the least expensive locally available items that would meet nutritional criteria adopted by national governments, as summarized in a Healthy Diet Basket (HDB) level of intake balanced among six complementary food groups: starchy staples, vegetables, fruits, fats and oils, animal source foods, and legumes, nuts and seeds. CoAHD reflects the definition of food security introduced during the World Food Summit of 1996, and complements the earlier measures of global food security notably Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU) based on total national availability and intake distribution of calories, and the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) based on survey data asking whether a household ran out of resources to acquire their usual diets. This paper briefly discusses the evolution of global food security measurement, then highlights updates to the methods used to compute CoAHD indicators and presents newly available CoAHD data obtained using this methodology and updated price data.</p>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 3","pages":"360-372"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091922","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}

{"title":"Seeding Change: Growing Insights From Four Programs to Support Climate-Resilient Soil and Water Conservation in US Agriculture","authors":"Elinor Benami,&nbsp;Anne Carroll,&nbsp;Kent D. Messer,&nbsp;Wei Zhang,&nbsp;Michael Cecil","doi":"10.1111/agec.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The United States authorized unprecedented investments in agri-environmental programs in 2022, dedicating over $19 billion to soil and water conservation practices with climate mitigation and adaptation benefits. We examine historical funding patterns, new funding allocations, and evaluation approaches for these programs. Our analysis reveals four key findings: (1) Nearly 40% of prior conservation funding has supported climate-beneficial practices, with increasing shares reflecting growing producer demand; (2) Although enrollment of historically underserved producers (HUPs) has increased, variation across programs and higher contract non-completion rates among this group suggests enhanced pre- and post-enrollment support services could be valuable; (3) A shift toward partnership-style programs facilitate locally-tailored agreements and market linkages, potentially broadening producer participation while enabling more durable incentives for sustained practice adoption; (4) current evaluation approaches primarily focus on implementation metrics paired with biophysical modeling and could be strengthened through rigorous impact evaluation design. Promising techniques include conducting randomized experiments and integrating geospatial data with program records to assess the impacts on producer behavior as well as program outcomes over time and space. Such approaches can build evidence for strategic conservation finance and de-risk future investments for other types of financial services—accelerating transformation toward sustainable agri-food systems in the United States and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 3","pages":"457-473"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091921","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}

{"title":"Climate Resilient Development for Agriculture and Pathways for Gender Inclusivity","authors":"Sonia Akter","doi":"10.1111/agec.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study introduces a new concept and framework called Climate Resilient Development for Agriculture (CRDA) to serve as a roadmap for agricultural transformation in the face of climate change. It also explores how to address gender inequity in agriculture during this transformation process. Unlike Climate Resilient Agriculture (CRA), which focuses solely on adjusting farming practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and maintain agricultural production in the face of climate change, CRDA takes a more comprehensive approach by integrating a development perspective. Its goal is to leverage synergies among actions, programs, and policies to achieve climate change mitigation, adaptation, and sustainable development goals while also addressing climate change induced loss and damage in the agriculture sector. The CRDA framework outlines potential pathways leading to either high or low CRDA futures and emphasizes the importance of gender equity in its structure. Additionally, the study highlights the potential for actions under the CRDA framework to either exacerbate or mitigate gender disparities and proposes five key actions that can contribute to a gender-inclusive and climate-resilient future for the agriculture sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 3","pages":"446-456"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091682","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}

{"title":"Healthy and Sustainable Diets in China and Their Global Implications","authors":"Yumei Zhang,&nbsp;Jingjing Wang,&nbsp;Shenggen Fan","doi":"10.1111/agec.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Current diets in China and worldwide are neither healthy nor sustainable. This paper addresses this challenge focusing on China, which has experienced a rapid dietary transition in recent decades. We investigate how China can improve both health and environmental outcomes by adopting healthy and sustainable diets through a literature review and a food system modeling exercise. We further analyze how policy interventions, including both supply- and consumer-side strategies, can promote the transition toward such diets. The findings provide valuable lessons for other countries facing comparable challenges.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 3","pages":"349-359"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091381","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}

{"title":"Novel Approaches to Analyze Consumer Behavior and Policies to Promote Sustainable Consumption","authors":"Bhagyashree Katare,&nbsp;Xuejian Wang,&nbsp;Shuoli Zhao,&nbsp;Jacqueline Yenerall","doi":"10.1111/agec.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Technological advancements, such as online grocery shopping, have significantly transformed consumer retail environments and experiences. Effectively studying consumer behavior in these new environments requires the use of novel methodological approaches, which will also aid in developing interventions to encourage sustainable consumption. This paper begins by providing an overview of the current literature on novel approaches to analyzing consumer behavior, then provides an empirical application by examining consumer decision-making pathways within an online grocery shopping platform. Specifically, the paper focuses on exploring the consumers' digital footprints, such as page visits, product additions and removals, and interactions with information labels to identify patterns and interests in consumer responses to healthy and sustainable consumption. Findings highlight the potential benefits of integrating consumer search tracking data with environmental design to facilitate informed and conscious food choices.</p>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 3","pages":"512-525"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091382","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}

{"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":"<p>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.</p>","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}

{"title":"Economic Impacts of Salmonella Dublin in Dairy Farms: Panel Evidence From Denmark","authors":"Dagim Belay,&nbsp;Jakob Vesterlund Olsen","doi":"10.1111/agec.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70016","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Zoonotic1 livestock diseases, such as Salmonella Dublin (SDB), have become a major public health concern in recent decades due to their potential to affect animal protein production, trade, human health, livelihoods, and food security (Hennessy and Marsh &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). The increased globalization, expansion of human populations, intensification of animal production systems, and changes in land use and climate increase the risk of zoonotic diseases spreading as epidemics and pandemics (Leal et al. &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). This calls for the need for effective surveillance and monitoring systems to mitigate their impact as highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. SDB, a strain commonly found in cattle, is one of the most important zoonotic diseases, with rising incidence and widespread antibiotic resistance, which makes it difficult to treat and deadly, killing up to 12% of human infections (Helms et al. &lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;; Harvey et al. &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;; Srednik et al. &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Velasquez-Munoz et al. &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; do Amarante et al. &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;). It can remain latent in herds for extended periods in healthy-appearing animals, spreading through infected animal trade, animal contact, or manure, which complicates control and eradication efforts (Nielsen et al. &lt;span&gt;2004&lt;/span&gt;; Velasquez-Munoz et al. &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). Despite the high prevalence of SDB in cattle (e.g., 60% in Great Britain (APHA &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;) and 18% in the US (Frye &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;)), its role as the main source of human Dublin infections (Helms et al. &lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;; Harvey et al. &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;, Velasquez-Munoz et al. &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;) and its capacity to cause severe illness and death in cattle, particularly in calves (Peters &lt;span&gt;1985&lt;/span&gt;; Holschbach and Peek &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;; SEGES &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;), regulatory bodies worldwide have yet to implement adequate measures to control or eradicate SDB in cattle farming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The absence of effective monitoring systems and the growing issue of multidrug antibiotic resistance in SDB infections present significant challenges for controlling the disease (Harvey et al. &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;). These factors, coupled with the lack of comprehensive farm-level economic estimates, undermine efforts to convince policymakers and farmers to implement stronger regulations and interventions. For instance, while society may aim to reduce human Dublin infections originating from cattle, as seen with initiatives like Denmark's SDB eradication plan in 2008, empirical evidence does not indicate significant farmer participation in SDB reduction efforts, contrary to predictions based solely on cow-level milk yield outcomes (Nielsen et al. &lt;span&gt;2012a, 2012b&lt;/span&gt;; Nielsen et al. &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;), which often fail to account for the complexities of farm management and production behavior (Seegers et al. &lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;). Understanding the economic impacts of SDB at the farm level is crucial for identifying fa","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 4","pages":"666-693"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573720","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}

{"title":"Credit Constraints, Agricultural Productivity, and Household Welfare in Burkina Faso: A Gender Perspective","authors":"Yaya Ky,&nbsp;Al-Mouksit Akim,&nbsp;Jorge Dávalos,&nbsp;Modeste Dayé,&nbsp;Habi Ky","doi":"10.1111/agec.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We define three ordinal credit constraint levels (low, medium, high) and assess their effects on farmers’ welfare through the agricultural productivity channel. Farmers who are successful in getting credit face a low level of credit constraints. Those who do not obtain credit are disentangled in two levels: the high and medium levels of credit constraints. We study the case of Burkina Faso, a country where women farmers experience unequal property rights, we show that these credit constraints offer more detailed insights than a binary approach. Our findings reveal that easing credit constraints boosts welfare and productivity, with variations based on constraint levels and gender. Additionally, less empowered women farmers exhibit reduced productivity despite better credit access, highlighting gender inequality and land rights issues that lead to women's disempowerment and credit misallocation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"56 4","pages":"694-707"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574253","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}

{"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 <p>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.</p>\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}