Pub Date : 2025-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102823
David J. Spielman , Serge Mugabo , Gracie Rosenbach , Sosthene Ndikumana , Gilberthe Benimana , Chantal Ingabire
Fertilizer subsidies are a prominent feature of many agricultural development strategies in sub-Saharan Africa, but few countries have the necessary data to make rapid decisions about their management in the face of exogenous shocks. This was the case in Rwanda following the rapid increase in international fertilizer prices in 2021–22. Working within a constrained fiscal space that followed the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Rwanda aimed to revise its fertilizer subsidy system to accommodate higher fertilizer import pric-es without compromising progress against its agricultural growth targets. This paper explores both the economic analysis and policy process that shaped decision-making around Rwanda’s fertilizer subsidy system during the period 2020–23. The paper centers on the design and application of a microsimulation model that estimated—almost in real time—the impact of increased fertilizer prices on crop production during this period. It then explores the policy outcomes that followed, emphasizing the scope for subsidy reductions even in the midst of crisis, the critical importance of strengthening agricultural data systems, and lessons for countries facing similar challenges.
{"title":"Fertilizer policy reforms in the midst of crisis: Evidence from Rwanda","authors":"David J. Spielman , Serge Mugabo , Gracie Rosenbach , Sosthene Ndikumana , Gilberthe Benimana , Chantal Ingabire","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102823","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102823","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fertilizer subsidies are a prominent feature of many agricultural development strategies in sub-Saharan Africa, but few countries have the necessary data to make rapid decisions about their management in the face of exogenous shocks. This was the case in Rwanda following the rapid increase in international fertilizer prices in 2021–22. Working within a constrained fiscal space that followed the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Rwanda aimed to revise its fertilizer subsidy system to accommodate higher fertilizer import pric-es without compromising progress against its agricultural growth targets. This paper explores both the economic analysis and policy process that shaped decision-making around Rwanda’s fertilizer subsidy system during the period 2020–23. The paper centers on the design and application of a microsimulation model that estimated—almost in real time—the impact of increased fertilizer prices on crop production during this period. It then explores the policy outcomes that followed, emphasizing the scope for subsidy reductions even in the midst of crisis, the critical importance of strengthening agricultural data systems, and lessons for countries facing similar challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 102823"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102818
Julian Schaper , Max Franks , Nicolas Koch , Charlotte Plinke , Michael Sureth
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102804
Jianhui Liu , Bachir Kassas , John Lai , Di Fang , Rodolfo M. Nayga
Suboptimal diets contribute significantly to diet-related chronic diseases and mortality in the United States. To address this, Front-of-Pack (FOP) labels have been proposed to help consumers make healthier food choices. In 2022, the FDA introduced 15 potential health labels aimed at providing critical information and nudging consumers toward healthier food choices, yet the effects of these labels on consumer preferences remain ambiguous. Using the Becker–DeGroot–Marschak mechanism in a laboratory experiment, this study investigates the influence of health and taste labels, and information provision, on consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for yogurt qualifying for the FDA-endorsed health label. Findings indicate that health labels alone reduce WTP, potentially due to perceived compromises on taste and skepticism towards health claims. However, the addition of credible information regarding FDA qualification mitigates these negative effects. Exploratory subsample analyses reveal that the health label is discounted among consumers who are nutritionally knowledgeable, health-conscious, pleasure driven, and frequent label users. However, providing information about the health label mitigates this discount among the former three types of consumers. The study underscores the importance of providing credible, detailed information and targeted educational campaigns to enhance the effectiveness of health labels. These insights can inform policymakers and stakeholders in developing more effective food labeling strategies to promote healthier dietary choices and improve public health outcomes. By unraveling the nuances of how consumers respond to health and taste labels, our research offers valuable guidance for designing labeling strategies that resonate with consumer values and preferences.
{"title":"Assessing consumers’ valuation for Front-of-Package ‘Health’ labeling under FDA guidelines","authors":"Jianhui Liu , Bachir Kassas , John Lai , Di Fang , Rodolfo M. Nayga","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102804","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102804","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Suboptimal diets contribute significantly to diet-related chronic diseases and mortality in the United States. To address this, Front-of-Pack (FOP) labels have been proposed to help consumers make healthier food choices. In 2022, the FDA introduced 15 potential health labels aimed at providing critical information and nudging consumers toward healthier food choices, yet the effects of these labels on consumer preferences remain ambiguous. Using the Becker–DeGroot–Marschak mechanism in a laboratory experiment, this study investigates the influence of health and taste labels, and information provision, on consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for yogurt qualifying for the FDA-endorsed health label. Findings indicate that health labels alone reduce WTP, potentially due to perceived compromises on taste and skepticism towards health claims. However, the addition of credible information regarding FDA qualification mitigates these negative effects. Exploratory subsample analyses reveal that the health label is discounted among consumers who are nutritionally knowledgeable, health-conscious, pleasure driven, and frequent label users. However, providing information about the health label mitigates this discount among the former three types of consumers. The study underscores the importance of providing credible, detailed information and targeted educational campaigns to enhance the effectiveness of health labels. These insights can inform policymakers and stakeholders in developing more effective food labeling strategies to promote healthier dietary choices and improve public health outcomes. By unraveling the nuances of how consumers respond to health and taste labels, our research offers valuable guidance for designing labeling strategies that resonate with consumer values and preferences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 102804"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102800
Claudia Bazzani , Riccardo Scarpa , Diego Begalli , Roberta Capitello
At the end of 2023, EU Commission mandated the adoption of nutritional labelling on wine products. This was intended to tackle irresponsible drinking behaviour and excessive energy intake from alcohol, but the alcohol industry stakeholders have remained skeptical. In this study, we seek clarification on: (1) whether nutritional labelling on alcoholic beverages can nudge consumers toward lower alcohol and hence lower calorie choices, (2) whether it can affect consumers’ evaluations for quality attributes, and (3) whether it beneficially affects choices by those who are most vulnerable. We conduct an online Choice Experiment on Italian consumers with a between-subjects approach, to simulate pre- and post-policy scenarios and observe choices by consumers who are informed about nutritional features (i.e. calorie content) and contrast these to those by uninformed consumers (i.e. the control group). We focus on red wine since, in Italy, wine is part of the traditional food diet and, at the same time, quality attributes represent a major component of product distinctiveness. Results from a Latent Class Random Parameter Logit Model (LC-RPL) weakly support nutritional labelling being an effective nudge toward low-alcohol wines, specifically in the case of less vulnerable consumers who are health-conscious, with lower BMI, who enjoy red wine during social gatherings and don’t typically read wine labels. Nutritional labelling on wine bottles either did not affect or enhanced mWTP for quality attributes. Consumers generally valued calorie content on wine packaging. This supports the implementation of nutritional labelling policies.
{"title":"Reporting nutritional information on wine packaging: Does it affect consumers’ choices? Evidence from a choice experiment in Italy","authors":"Claudia Bazzani , Riccardo Scarpa , Diego Begalli , Roberta Capitello","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102800","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102800","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>At the end of 2023, EU Commission mandated the adoption of nutritional labelling on wine products. This was intended to tackle irresponsible drinking behaviour and excessive energy intake from alcohol, but the alcohol industry stakeholders have remained skeptical. In this study, we seek clarification on: (1) whether nutritional labelling on alcoholic beverages can nudge consumers toward lower alcohol and hence lower calorie choices, (2) whether it can affect consumers’ evaluations for quality attributes, and (3) whether it beneficially affects choices by those who are most vulnerable. We conduct an online Choice Experiment on Italian consumers with a between-subjects approach, to simulate pre- and post-policy scenarios and observe choices by consumers who are informed about nutritional features (i.e. calorie content) and contrast these to those by uninformed consumers (i.e. the control group). We focus on red wine since, in Italy, wine is part of the traditional food diet and, at the same time, quality attributes represent a major component of product distinctiveness. Results from a Latent Class Random Parameter Logit Model (LC-RPL) weakly support nutritional labelling being an effective nudge toward low-alcohol wines, specifically in the case of less vulnerable consumers who are health-conscious, with lower BMI, who enjoy red wine during social gatherings and don’t typically read wine labels. Nutritional labelling on wine bottles either did not affect or enhanced mWTP for quality attributes. Consumers generally valued calorie content on wine packaging. This supports the implementation of nutritional labelling policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 102800"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143261865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102799
Aaron J. Staples , Maria Kalaitzandonakes
As global energy drink sales and caffeine content have surged, so have public health concerns over childhood energy drink consumption. With limited regulatory oversight, potential adverse effects, and recent claims of targeted marketing toward children, there is a need to better understand society’s evolving relationship with energy drink markets. This study uses experimental and survey data from a national panel of 1,036 U.S. adults to assess consumer preferences and perceptions toward energy drink policies and marketing. First, we use a best-worst scaling experiment to assess preferences for energy drink labeling requirements, sales channel bans, marketing restrictions, and caffeine caps relative to the status quo. A randomized information treatment also considers how information from health agencies highlighting risks to childhood health affects policy preferences. Without this information, respondents have the strongest preference for a mandatory and prominently displayed caffeine content label. Providing information on the potential childhood health risks, however, increases the relative ranking of policies banning sales to children in retail outlets and high schools. The exploratory survey analysis then provides insights into marketing perceptions that open avenues for future research. For example, we show that it takes the average consumer more than twice as long to find the caffeine content of an energy drink than its calorie count, most consumers believe energy drink packaging is at least somewhat appealing to children, and the perceived target audience of social media marketing varies across brands. These results and the corresponding discussion provide important global policy-relevant insights as the energy drink market develops.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102798
Rebecca A. Stone , Paul Christiansen , Alexandra M. Johnstone , Adrian Brown , Flora Douglas , Charlotte A. Hardman , on behalf of the FIO-Food Team
In westernised countries, food insecurity (FI) is robustly associated with low diet quality, and obesity. Grocery stores are one promising arena for interventions to facilitate purchasing of healthier, more environmentally sustainable food. However, we currently lack understanding of the barriers experienced by people living with obesity (PLWO) and FI when shopping for such food. Using an online survey (N = 583), adults residing in England or Scotland with a body mass index of ≥ 30 kg/m2 self-reported on FI, diet quality, and their experiences of shopping in a grocery store for healthy and environmentally sustainable food. Participants also ranked different grocery store interventions on their helpfulness in supporting healthier, more environmentally sustainable purchasing. Structural equation modelling revealed that greater experiences of FI were directly associated with greater experiences of barriers from the food environment (e.g., price), food preparation practices, lower healthy diet knowledge and physical ill-health. Moreover, greater experiences of FI were indirectly associated with lower diet quality via mental ill-health and greater experiences of anticipated stigma associated with being food insecure. Grocery store interventions based on price/ incentivisation were ranked most helpful in supporting healthier, more environmentally sustainable purchasing. These findings highlight the challenges faced by PLWO and with greater experiences of FI when shopping for healthy and environmentally sustainable food. Findings also underscore the need for policy development relating to price and affordability at a population-level, and for policymakers and healthcare professionals to consider how to address mental health and how to minimise anticipated stigma experienced by this vulnerable group.
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The modern global food system is an important driver of climate change. Policy measures are one potential lever for shifting consumption towards more sustainability. Public acceptance can be a major barrier for the implementation of such measures. Thus, a profound understanding of consumers is needed to facilitate policy support. In the present study, we therefore invited 453 participants from German-speaking parts of Switzerland to participate in an online survey in which we tested 15 policy measures for their consumer acceptance. Furthermore, we explored individual predictors that contribute to policy support. Our results show that there is a difference in the support of policy measures depending on the level of intrusiveness, making less intrusive measures more accepted than more intrusive measures. Support also varied depending on the targeted product category. Measures targeting dairy and meat products tended to be less accepted than measures targeting vegetables. Using a regression analysis, we identified behaviour (i.e. meat and dairy consumption) and food sustainability knowledge as an important predictor of policy support. The findings have important implications for policymakers, as they illustrate that personal involvement is a crucial factor in policy support. Taken together, our findings can help inform future food policies to increase consumer support and thereby facilitate sustainable behaviour change.
{"title":"Consumer support of policy measures to increase sustainability in food consumption","authors":"Jeanine Ammann , Andreia Arbenz , Gabriele Mack , Michael Siegrist","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102822","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102822","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The modern global food system is an important driver of climate change. Policy measures are one potential lever for shifting consumption towards more sustainability. Public acceptance can be a major barrier for the implementation of such measures. Thus, a profound understanding of consumers is needed to facilitate policy support. In the present study, we therefore invited 453 participants from German-speaking parts of Switzerland to participate in an online survey in which we tested 15 policy measures for their consumer acceptance. Furthermore, we explored individual predictors that contribute to policy support. Our results show that there is a difference in the support of policy measures depending on the level of intrusiveness, making less intrusive measures more accepted than more intrusive measures. Support also varied depending on the targeted product category. Measures targeting dairy and meat products tended to be less accepted than measures targeting vegetables. Using a regression analysis, we identified behaviour (i.e. meat and dairy consumption) and food sustainability knowledge as an important predictor of policy support. The findings have important implications for policymakers, as they illustrate that personal involvement is a crucial factor in policy support. Taken together, our findings can help inform future food policies to increase consumer support and thereby facilitate sustainable behaviour change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 102822"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102797
Qian Yang, Yueji Zhu
Hidden hunger and malnutrition threaten rural households in developing countries. Therefore, an effective and low-cost strategy is urgently required to improve the dietary diversity of rural households. Short-form video platforms (SVPs) are emerging media that can deliver diet-related information, and their potential impact on the dietary diversity of rural households cannot be neglected. Based on primary data collected from rural households in China, this study employs the IV-Poisson model to explore whether SVPs improve the dietary diversity of rural households, uses the IV-Probit model to examine whether SVPs encourage rural residents to consume food groups that are not self-produced, and applies the endogenous-treatment Poisson regression (ETPR) model to identify the heterogeneous effects of SVP participation on the dietary diversity of rural households with different distances from the county center. The results reveal that household cooks’ participation in SVPs significantly increases the dietary diversity of rural households. Specifically, households in which cooks participate in SVPs have 29.5% higher household dietary diversity scores than those in which cooks do not. The results indicate that household cooks’ participation in SVPs encourages rural residents to consume food groups that are not self-produced, thus improving their dietary diversity. In addition, the results indicate that household cooks’ participation in SVPs has a greater positive effect on the dietary diversity of rural households closer to the county center compared to those farther from the center.
{"title":"The emerging short-form video platforms improve household dietary diversity of rural residents: Evidence from China","authors":"Qian Yang, Yueji Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102797","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102797","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hidden hunger and malnutrition threaten rural households in developing countries. Therefore, an effective and low-cost strategy is urgently required to improve the dietary diversity of rural households. Short-form video platforms (SVPs) are emerging media that can deliver diet-related information, and their potential impact on the dietary diversity of rural households cannot be neglected. Based on primary data collected from rural households in China, this study employs the IV-Poisson model to explore whether SVPs improve the dietary diversity of rural households, uses the IV-Probit model to examine whether SVPs encourage rural residents to consume food groups that are not self-produced, and applies the endogenous-treatment Poisson regression (ETPR) model to identify the heterogeneous effects of SVP participation on the dietary diversity of rural households with different distances from the county center. The results reveal that household cooks’ participation in SVPs significantly increases the dietary diversity of rural households. Specifically, households in which cooks participate in SVPs have 29.5% higher household dietary diversity scores than those in which cooks do not. The results indicate that household cooks’ participation in SVPs encourages rural residents to consume food groups that are not self-produced, thus improving their dietary diversity. In addition, the results indicate that household cooks’ participation in SVPs has a greater positive effect on the dietary diversity of rural households closer to the county center compared to those farther from the center.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 102797"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102820
Germano Glufke Reis , Beatrice de Freitas Martins da Silva , Anna Loraine Hartmann , Terese E. Venus
Cultivated meat offers an alternative to ensure food security and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from conventional animal production. As the innovation remains in its nascent stages, policymakers require a better understanding of the market’s potential, trajectory and future development perspectives. To support policymakers in developing flexible and effective policy frameworks for cultivated meat, we analyze perspectives about the trajectory of the cultivated meat market by 2040 in a comparative study of two countries, which are both major conventional meat markets and developers of alternative protein sources: Brazil and Germany. We use the Q-methodology to identify future perspectives and examine the influence of conventional meat industry incumbents on cultivated meat governance. Our sample includes 59 stakeholders working on cultivated and conventional meat. These perspectives can aid in decision-making related to investments in technological development, improvements in the sensory attributes of cultivated products, support for entrepreneurial ecosystems and startups, product hybridization, consumer and stakeholder engagement, the development of human capital, and regulatory schemes.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102821
Jared Hutchins , Marin Skidmore , Derek Nolan
Livestock agriculture, and dairy more specifically, is threatened by climate change as extreme weather conditions become more frequent. When temperature and humidity increase above critical levels, dairy cows become heat-stressed and experience a drop in milk production. We quantify the impact of heat stress on the dairy industry throughout the Midwestern and Eastern United States in the years 2012–2016 using animal-level production data. We estimate that 1% of total annual yield is lost to heat stress, and losses are predicted to increase about 30% by 2050 on average under various climate scenarios. We provide three new insights compared to previous estimates with aggregated data. (1) Heat stress disproportionately affects milk quality, having larger impacts on farm income and nutritional value than previously estimated. (2) Small farms experience the largest losses to heat stress, suggesting they face barriers to adaptation. (3) Cows in the highest-yield production stage are the most vulnerable to heat stress in both relative and absolute terms. Our results have global implications given the prevalence of dairy as a source of income and nutrition in high- and low-income contexts. We outline ways that funds for climate-smart agriculture could be used to increase climate resilience in the dairy industry.
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