{"title":"2020 AARES distinguished life member","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1467-8489.12606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12606","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55427,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics","volume":"69 2","pages":"264"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831196","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}
John M. Kandulu, Sarah A. Wheeler, Alec Zuo, Jeffery D. Connor
{"title":"Mobile Technology and Gender: A Pathway to Increased Yield and Farm Profit for Smallholder Farmers in Bangladesh","authors":"John M. Kandulu, Sarah A. Wheeler, Alec Zuo, Jeffery D. Connor","doi":"10.1111/1467-8489.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Information technology (IT) including mobile phones, smartphones, tablets, watches and an expanding range of supporting technologies, is now embedded as a significant driver of innovation and economic growth. Despite extensive literature on barriers and enablers of female access and benefit, few studies provide quantitative evidence on how more female versus male IT access benefits smallholder households in developing countries. This study contributes to the empirical evidence by assessing how mobile phone ownership, particularly in female-headed households, influenced agricultural yield and profit for smallholder farmers in Bangladesh, using the 2012 and 2015 national farm household survey and spatial climate data. Our empirical approach addresses the challenges posed by spatially clustered data in systematically stratified survey samples, potential endogeneity and self-selection bias. We employ multilevel mixed-effects generalised linear regression models and incorporate household fixed-effects specifications to control for these issues and provide a more robust analysis of the relationship between mobile phone ownership and agricultural outcomes. Based on four out of six of our most robust estimates, we found that mobile phone ownership is associated with significant increases in both yield (4.1%–8.3%) and farm profit (25.4%–32.3%) for female-headed households. Our conclusions highlight the potential for female digital inclusion to enhance smallholder profitability and yields in Bangladesh and other rural, agrarian economies with low- to middle-income levels.</p><p><b>JEL Classification:</b> J16, O13, Q16</p>","PeriodicalId":55427,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics","volume":"69 3","pages":"674-686"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8489.70018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681342","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":"The Impacts of the Sanitation Campaign on Improving Living Environments: Evidence From Rural China","authors":"Qingen Gai, Chengzheng Li, Xiong Xiao","doi":"10.1111/1467-8489.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>To narrow the gap in living environments between rural and urban areas, the Chinese government launched a nationwide sanitation campaign to improve the rural living environment. This paper uses rural household survey data and employs an econometric approach to evaluate the various effects of this top-down sanitation campaign. The empirical results indicate that the environmental benefits of the sanitation campaign are statistically significant, whereas the short-term health and income effects are not. Villages completing the sanitation campaign (or with higher completion scores) enjoy a relatively better living environment: a statistically significant decline in the probability of having household waste, domestic sewage and human and animal excrement (odour) near homes. In addition, we also find that rural sanitation campaigns stimulate environmentally friendly behaviours of rural residents.</p>\u0000 <p><b>JEL Classification:</b> P28, P25, Q52</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":55427,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics","volume":"69 3","pages":"625-648"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681341","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}
Ronald Jeremy Antonio, Harold Glenn Valera, Ashok K. Mishra, Valerien O. Pede, Takashi Yamano, Bernardo Oliva Vieira
{"title":"Rice Price Inflation Dynamics in the Philippines","authors":"Ronald Jeremy Antonio, Harold Glenn Valera, Ashok K. Mishra, Valerien O. Pede, Takashi Yamano, Bernardo Oliva Vieira","doi":"10.1111/1467-8489.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines the monthly regional dynamic relationship between rice price inflation and its key drivers in the Philippines using a panel vector auto-regression model over the period January 1994–March 2023. We find evidence that the effect of a world rice price shock is generally larger and more persistent than the effects of other factors. We also find that movements in rice price inflation are explained by domestic fuel price shocks and, to a lesser extent, by world urea price shocks. The impulse response functions driven by those three shocks vary over the sample, especially before a change in food policy such as the imposition of the rice tariffication in 2019. Further analysis suggests that El Niño Southern Oscillation shocks tend to induce an inflationary effect on rice prices in high-poverty and rice-sufficient regions. Our results have important food policy implications for rice markets and offer timely insights into the desirability of current proposals to help lower and stabilise rice prices for consumers and improve existing support for farmers to boost rice production.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":55427,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics","volume":"69 2","pages":"440-452"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831473","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":"Zambia's Agricultural Input Support Programme: Estimating the Impact of the Voucher Delivery System on Crop Diversification","authors":"Obrian Ndhlovu, Edwin Muchapondwa","doi":"10.1111/1467-8489.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Zambia runs an agricultural input support program for 900,000 rural households, primarily targeting maize, the staple crop. A new delivery mode was introduced to the program, initially allowing farmers in 16 of the 115 districts to choose inputs using electronic vouchers, with the aim of encouraging crop diversification, amongst other objectives. Despite the potential benefits of this reform from a theoretical perspective, farmers may not always be able to diversify their crops due to existing barriers. In this paper, we examine how the electronic voucher reform impacted crop diversification and rotation practices at the household level during the pilot phase. The paper combines data from surveys conducted over two waves with 1518 rural households, high-resolution satellite rainfall data and in-depth qualitative interviews with 23 key informants. We find evidence that the reform had a positive impact (an increase of 0.231 points on the Simpson index of diversification) on crop diversification. However, there is no significant direct impact on crop rotation. We nevertheless observed that crop rotation can gain impetus only if farmers fully embrace crop diversification. Results from the qualitative interviews suggest that the limited effectiveness of electronic vouchers could be due to inadequacies in private sector input and output markets, as well as cultural preferences. Several important policy implications arise from these findings, including the need to promote markets for alternative crops and enhance extension services.</p>","PeriodicalId":55427,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics","volume":"69 2","pages":"405-421"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8489.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831474","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}