Agriculture and Food Security最新文献

{"title":"Cash crops and food security: evidence from smallholder cocoa and cashew farmers in Ghana","authors":"Ishmael Hashmiu, O. Agbenyega, E. Dawoe","doi":"10.1186/s40066-022-00355-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-022-00355-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55858,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Food Security","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42420244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The simultaneous impact of access to credit and cooperative services on cocoa productivity in South-western Nigeria","authors":"A. Kehinde, A. Ogundeji","doi":"10.1186/s40066-021-00351-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-021-00351-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55858,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Food Security","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47287966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Post-harvest losses of crops and its determinants in Ethiopia: tobit model analysis","authors":"Sisay Debebe","doi":"10.1186/s40066-022-00357-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-022-00357-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55858,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Food Security","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65826557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Food safety and the informal milk supply chain in Kenya","authors":"Hasibi Zavala Nacul, C. Revoredo‐Giha","doi":"10.1186/s40066-021-00349-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-021-00349-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55858,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Food Security","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46478412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adoption of improved wheat production technology in Gorche district, Ethiopia","authors":"Aklilu Atinafu, M. Lejebo, A. Alemu","doi":"10.1186/s40066-021-00343-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-021-00343-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55858,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Food Security","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65826930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recommended daily allowance-based contribution of household’s own agricultural production to food and nutrition security in Karamoja sub-region of Uganda","authors":"C. Muggaga, Mugonola Basil, I. Okello-Uma, A. Kaaya, David Taylor, D. Ongeng","doi":"10.1186/s40066-021-00352-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-021-00352-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55858,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Food Security","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46559067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is the quest to eat healthy a route to enhancing consumer’s food security?","authors":"W. Kerr, J. Hobbs","doi":"10.1186/s40066-021-00340-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-021-00340-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55858,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Food Security","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65826873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk perception associated with an emerging agri-food risk in Europe: plant viruses in agriculture.","authors":"Johny Hilaire,&nbsp;Sophie Tindale,&nbsp;Glyn Jones,&nbsp;Gabriela Pingarron-Cardenas,&nbsp;Katarina Bačnik,&nbsp;Mercy Ojo,&nbsp;Lynn J Frewer","doi":"10.1186/s40066-022-00366-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-022-00366-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Research into public risk perceptions associated with emerging risks in agriculture and supply chains has focused on technological risks, zoonotic diseases, and food integrity, but infrequently on naturally occurring diseases in plants. Plant virus infections account for global economic losses estimated at $30 billion annually and are responsible for nearly 50% of plant diseases worldwide, threatening global food security. This research aimed to understand public perceptions of emerging risks and benefits associated with plant viruses in agriculture in Belgium, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Online qualitative semi-structured interviews with 80 European consumers were conducted, including 20 participants in each of Belgium, Slovenia, the UK, and Spain. Microsoft Streams was used to transcribe the interview data, and NVivo was utilized to code the transcripts and analyze the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results indicate that, while study participants were relatively unfamiliar with the plant viruses and their potential impacts, plant viruses evoked perceived risks in a similar way to other emerging risks in the agri-food sector. These included risks to environment and human health, and the economic functioning of the relevant supply chain. Some participants perceived both risks and benefits to be associated with plant viruses. Benefits were perceived to be associated with improved plant resistance to viruses.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results provide the basis for risk regulation, policy, and communication developments. Risk communication needs to take account of both risk and benefit perceptions, as well as the observation that plant viruses are perceived as an emerging, rather than an established, understood, and controlled risk. Some participants indicated the need for risk-benefit communication strategies to be developed, including information about the impacts of the risks, and associated mitigation strategies. Participants perceived that responsibility for control of plant viruses should be conferred on actors within the supply chain, in particular primary producers, although policy support (for example, financial incentivization) should be provided to improve their motivation to instigate risk mitigation activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":55858,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Food Security","volume":" ","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8917942/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40306332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors influencing consumption of traditional diets: stakeholder views regarding sago consumption among the indigenous peoples of West Papua.","authors":"Fathir Fajar Sidiq,&nbsp;David Coles,&nbsp;Carmen Hubbard,&nbsp;Beth Clark,&nbsp;Lynn J Frewer","doi":"10.1186/s40066-022-00390-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-022-00390-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The indigenous people living in the province of West Papua may experience potential food insecurity, in part attributable to increased local adoption of, and reliance on, imported foods such as rice. At the same time, the consumption of sago, a traditional local food, is lower than other types of carbohydrate foods such as wheat and cassava. Various factors may act as influential drivers of local diets and related agricultural practices, such as local socio-economic and agronomic factors, as well as cultural practices which in turn may be influenced by the attitudes and opinions of stakeholders with interests in the supply chain.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Qualitative methodology (semi-structured interviews) was applied to understand the various factors perceived by a selected number of stakeholders that influence sago consumption among the indigenous peoples of West Papua. These stakeholders included politicians, local and national civil servants, academics, sago farmers, and food activists (<i>n</i> = 18). Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results indicate that the stakeholders perceive that the majority of the West Papuan people regard sago as a traditional food that is critical to, and inseparable from, local culture and food production practices. The results suggest that the stakeholders interviewed support the consumption of sago to improve food security for the indigenous people in West Papua, with a need for future policy to be developed to support this.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The evidence presented here suggests a diverse range of local stakeholders support the continuation of sago production and consumption, both from the perspective of improved food security, and in order to conserve cultural associations and activities within local communities. According to the stakeholders interviewed, this can be best achieved through improved engagement of local communities with sago production policies, innovation in current practices, and agronomic management. Local policies should be developed to ensure that sago remains an integral component of the Papuan people's culture, and develops into a significant commodity with economic value which simultaneously contributes to environmental targets.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40066-022-00390-5.</p>","PeriodicalId":55858,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Food Security","volume":" ","pages":"51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9540296/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33516420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Governing COVID-19: analyzing the effects of policy responses on food systems in Tanzania.","authors":"Paschal A Mugabe,&nbsp;Theresa M Renkamp,&nbsp;Constance Rybak,&nbsp;Hadija Mbwana,&nbsp;Chris Gordon,&nbsp;Stefan Sieber,&nbsp;Katharina Löhr","doi":"10.1186/s40066-022-00383-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-022-00383-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic increased debates on global public health concerns. From early 2020 to 2022, globally, life was upended in the wake of the pandemic. Industries of all kinds were forced to rapidly changed how they work, including agriculture. Particularly for smallholder farmers in developing countries, the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with climate change effects, negatively affected their livelihoods. Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is unrealistic if immediate efforts are not made to address the existential threats facing smallholder farmers. This study analyzes COVID-19 governance and policy responses, examining its effects on smallholder farmers in the south and east of Tanzania using both qualitative and quantitative techniques.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings show that mobility restrictions imposed by other countries and fears of the Tanzanian people leading to voluntary isolation resulted in an amended structure of farmers' markets: Reductions in exports, imports and in the purchasing power of the local people followed. Food security was diminished as food availability on the market level was reduced due to mobility restrictions. The impact of COVID-19 resulted in more than 85% of smallholder farmers experiencing an income reduction, thus also increasing the pre-existing vulnerability of these communities. Findings show that farms producing non-exported crops had less severe income reductions and could cope better. The results indicate that only 20% of smallholder farmers started using digital information technology to gather information since physical movements were restricted. Access to technology remained limited in rural areas. Even during the COVID-19 crises, farmers' concerns about the vulnerability of their food systems include non-COVID-19 causes, such as climate change.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Although Tanzania did not impose a total lockdown, the country was affected by COVID-19, partly via policies of other countries. Impacts included: (i) a decline in local markets as smallholder farmers had fewer trading partners from neighboring states; (ii) a loss of employment opportunities due to the absence of both local and external trade; (iii) reductions of farm output and income; (iv) a lack of agricultural inputs (fertilizer etc.) that are usually imported; (v) fear to continue farming activities due to news about COVID-19 spreading; and (vi) reduction of work efficiency because of a lack of social gathering due to voluntary isolation.While COVID-19 compelled policymakers to make urgent decisions to ensure stable food supply chains, the fundamental task is to address these immediate disruptions while also investing in the long-term goal of a resilient, sustainable, and productive global food system. This can be achieved by adopting a policy package that includes investments in technological development, access to small long-term loans, and r","PeriodicalId":55858,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture and Food Security","volume":" ","pages":"47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9461453/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40359204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}