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The effects of food affordability on life expectancy in emerging countries 新兴国家食品负担能力对预期寿命的影响

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12850

Karim Barkat, Mouyad Alsamara, Karim Mimouni, Shaif Jarallah

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Changing attitudes through information exposure: Experimental evidence on reducing agricultural burning in rural Nigeria 通过接触信息改变态度：减少尼日利亚农村地区农业焚烧的实验证据

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12846

Efobi Uchenna

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Field observation and verbal exchange as different peer effects in farmers’ technology adoption decisions 实地观察和口头交流作为农民采用技术决策中不同的同伴效应

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12847

Anna Massfeller, Hugo Storm

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Ripe for contracts? Estimating the impact of an avocado producer organization contract farming intervention 合同时机成熟？估算牛油果生产者组织合同种植干预措施的影响

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12848

Philipp Kollenda, Daniella Brals, Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Remco Oostendorp, Menno Pradhan, Fedes van Rijn

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Social norms, nutrition messaging, and demand for biofortified staple crops: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Ethiopia 社会规范、营养信息和对生物强化主食作物的需求：来自埃塞俄比亚离散选择实验的证据

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12845

Kaleb Shiferaw Jada, Marrit van den Berg

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Concentration, market imperfections, and interbranch organization in the Italian processed tomato supply chain 意大利加工番茄供应链中的集中、市场缺陷和分支机构间组织

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12835

Lukáš Čechura, Antonella Samoggia, Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani

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Spraying for the beauty: Pesticide use for visual appearance in apple production 为美丽而喷洒苹果生产中为了视觉美观而使用农药

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12836

Lucca Zachmann, Chloe McCallum, Robert Finger

{"title":"Spraying for the beauty: Pesticide use for visual appearance in apple production","authors":"Lucca Zachmann, Chloe McCallum, Robert Finger","doi":"10.1111/agec.12836","DOIUrl":"10.1111/agec.12836","url":null,"abstract":"Pesticides are used to reduce yield losses and to enhance the visual quality of products. However, pesticide use raises concerns due to negative health and environmental effects, hence ambitious policy goals for their reduction have been established. Reducing pesticides which mainly focus on visual quality of products could be an efficient strategy to contribute to these goals, without reducing food production. However, the role of “cosmetic” pesticide use is so far not well documented and understood. Here, we quantify cosmetic pesticide use and the influence of supply chain characteristics on their use. We focus on table apple production, where the visual quality of products is a key aspect. Using a sample of 196 apple growers in Switzerland, we find that 23.5%–59.2% of growers use cosmetic pesticides for the apples’ visual appearance. Farms mainly marketing via intermediaries are 23.9-29.6% more likely to spray cosmetic pesticides for visual purposes compared to farms mainly direct marketing. Our findings highlight the role of supply chains in farmer decision-making, recommending a decrease in the focus on visual product quality, especially in retail environments, thus minimizing unnecessary and irreversible risks of pesticide exposure by farmers without compromising food security.","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"55 4","pages":"621-638"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.12836","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140975961","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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Second stage land certification and land rental market in northern Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亚北部第二阶段土地认证和土地租赁市场

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12834

Menasbo Gebru Tesfay, Girmay Berhe Araya

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Rainfall variability and welfare of agricultural households: Evidence from rural Niger 降雨变异性与农业家庭的福利：尼日尔农村的证据

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12833

Soumaïla Gansonré

{"title":"Rainfall variability and welfare of agricultural households: Evidence from rural Niger","authors":"Soumaïla Gansonré","doi":"10.1111/agec.12833","DOIUrl":"10.1111/agec.12833","url":null,"abstract":"Variable weather continues to be the major source of vulnerability to chronic hunger and poverty in many developing countries due to the strong dependency of livelihood strategies on rainfed farming. Quantifying the effect of climatic parameters on agricultural households is, therefore, necessary to help policymakers understand the benefits of climate policies, improve the allocation of the scarce resources dedicated to adaptation and prioritize among adaptation strategies. This article investigates the empirical relationship between the welfare of rural households and rainfall variability in the semi-arid tropics, using household panel data and high-resolution remotely sensed rainfall data from Niger. We find that a standard deviation increase in rainfall variability is associated with a reduction of real food consumption by 11.13%. Results also indicate that a standard deviation increase in rainfall variability reduces expenditures for cereal-based products, animal-based products and processed foods by 11.96%, 21.31%, and 16.23%, respectively. Our results are consistent across a battery of robustness checks. Finally, we find geographical-based differences in terms of the effect and that access to cereal banks cushions the negative effect of rainfall variability. Policy interventions aiming at improving the well-being of rural households should therefore emphasize improving climate adaptation strategies.","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"55 4","pages":"572-587"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140982870","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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Dynamic linkages in agricultural and energy markets: A quantile impulse response approach 农业和能源市场的动态联系：量子脉冲响应法

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12837

Linjie Wang, Jean-Paul Chavas, Jian Li

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