食品中心之间的过度竞争

IF 1.2 4区经济学 Q3 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI:10.22004/AG.ECON.281317

Rebecca Cleary, S. Goetz, D. McFadden, Houtian Ge

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引用次数: 10

摘要

食品中心提供了一种新颖的解决方案，将当地的中小型农场联系起来，这些农场单独缺乏规模，无法通过销售自己的产品获利。由于许多食品中心依赖赠款和慈善事业来提供服务，不一定是利润驱动的，市场可能会因过度投资而无意中过度饱和。我们使用企业进入模型来估计美国一、二、三个食品中心实现收支平衡所需的平均县人口。我们的研究结果表明，政策制定者和慈善家在支持额外的食品中心之前，需要考虑当地食品环境和人口的承载能力。

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Excess Competition among Food Hubs

Food hubs offer a novel solution to connect small and mid-sized local farms, which individually lack the scale to profitably market their products. Because many food hubs rely on grants and philanthropy to provide services and are not necessarily profit-driven, markets may unintentionally oversaturate due to overinvestment.We use a firm-entry model to estimate the average U.S. county population necessary for one, two, and three food hubs to break even. Our findings suggest that policy makers and philanthropists need to consider the carrying capacity of the local food environment and population prior to supporting additional food hubs.

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Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 社会科学-农业经济与政策

CiteScore

2.30

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

>36 weeks

期刊介绍： The mission of the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics is to publish creative and scholarly economic studies in agriculture, natural resources, and related areas. Manuscripts dealing with the economics of food and agriculture, natural resources and the environment, human resources, and rural development issues are especially encouraged. The Journal provides a forum for topics of interest to those performing economic research as well as to those involved with economic policy and education. Submission of comments on articles previously published in the Journal is welcomed.