This study investigated how (NS) and geographical indication (GI) labels interact to influence consumers’ purchase intention for hard cheese products in Italy and the Netherlands. Using a Bayesian causal mediation analysis framework, we conducted an online randomised experiment with a between-subjects design. The analysis focused on the effect of an NS grade D label on purchase intention, comparing generic cheeses to those with PDO label. Furthermore, we explored whether perceived healthiness mediates the relationship between an NS grade D label and purchase intention for these products. The results revealed that although an NS grade D label can reduce perceived healthiness, particularly in countries with low familiarity with GIs, its total effect on purchase intention is limited. In the Netherlands, PDO label mitigates the negative effect of NS grade D on perceived healthiness, demonstrating its ability to offset unfavourable nutritional signals. We identified a dual effect of an NS grade D label: a negative effect on purchase intention due to its impact on perceived healthiness and a direct positive effect likely to result from consumers appreciating the transparency it provides. This suggests that consumers can appreciate the information value of NS, even if the label conveys unfavourable nutritional information. These insights are valuable to policymakers and industry stakeholders when managing the implementation of packaging labels in various European markets.
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Crowdsourcing initiatives that engage a large group of individuals (the crowd) to perform micro-tasks using information and communication technologies are increasingly utilized for real-time monitoring of shocks and providing advisories to smallholder farmers and livestock keepers. We conducted a randomized control trial (RCT) in northern Kenya to evaluate KAZNET, which is a crowdsourcing initiative for collecting and disseminating near-real-time information about livestock markets, vegetation conditions, and household food security in the drylands of East Africa. The RCT randomly assigned 178 villages to either the treatment arm (exposure to the KAZNET initiative) or the control arm (no KAZNET). We found that the KAZNET initiative improved access to information, increased the adoption of livestock management practices and use of inputs (livestock medicine and insurance), and shaped decisions about the choice of markets for selling livestock. Further, the KAZNET initiative increased livestock income. Together, these findings suggest that efforts and investments to scale agricultural information crowdsourcing initiatives will yield potentially beneficial impacts.
{"title":"Crowdsourcing initiatives and the diffusion of information: Experimental evidence from livestock keepers in Kenya","authors":"Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku, Watson Saewua Lepariyo, Meshack Baraza Obonyo, Ibrahim Ochenje","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102935","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102935","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Crowdsourcing initiatives that engage a large group of individuals (the crowd) to perform micro-tasks using information and communication technologies are increasingly utilized for real-time monitoring of shocks and providing advisories to smallholder farmers and livestock keepers. We conducted a randomized control trial (RCT) in northern Kenya to evaluate KAZNET, which is a crowdsourcing initiative for collecting and disseminating near-real-time information about livestock markets, vegetation conditions, and household food security in the drylands of East Africa. The RCT randomly assigned 178 villages to either the treatment arm (exposure to the KAZNET initiative) or the control arm (no KAZNET). We found that the KAZNET initiative improved access to information, increased the adoption of livestock management practices and use of inputs (livestock medicine and insurance), and shaped decisions about the choice of markets for selling livestock. Further, the KAZNET initiative increased livestock income. Together, these findings suggest that efforts and investments to scale agricultural information crowdsourcing initiatives will yield potentially beneficial impacts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 102935"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144757576","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 : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-07-25DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102916
Rahman Md. Mostafizur , Khatun Mst. Asma , Moinul Islam , Tatsuyoshi Saijo , Koji Kotani
Adopting sustainable food consumption (SFC) is essential for addressing climate change, improving health outcomes and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, little is known about what encourages people to make a lasting shift to SFC. This research considers a future design (FD) approach where people are asked to think about a problem and to act through taking a perspective of future generations, investigating the question “how does the FD approach impact food consumption?” and the hypothesis “FD induces a lasting shift to SFC.” We employ a social experiment with three treatments of “control group,” “deliberation” and “FD,” collecting data on organic and nonorganic vegetable consumption with 300 households in Bangladesh over three months. In the control group, households report the consumption. In deliberation, they additionally deliberate among their family members to think of a vision, a mission and a strategy for the consumption. In the FD treatment, participants additionally consider the perspectives of past, current and future generations before deliberating on the same issues. Results indicate that FD affects people to have a sustained increase (decrease) in organic (nonorganic) vegetable consumption as compared to any other treatment, and the effect under FD is approximately twice as much as that under deliberation in magnitude and in each round. Overall, FD demonstrates a great potential for inducing people to make a persistent change to SFC.
{"title":"Does future design induce people to make a persistent change to sustainable food consumption?","authors":"Rahman Md. Mostafizur , Khatun Mst. Asma , Moinul Islam , Tatsuyoshi Saijo , Koji Kotani","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102916","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102916","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Adopting sustainable food consumption (SFC) is essential for addressing climate change, improving health outcomes and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, little is known about what encourages people to make a lasting shift to SFC. This research considers a future design (FD) approach where people are asked to think about a problem and to act through taking a perspective of future generations, investigating the question “how does the FD approach impact food consumption?” and the hypothesis “FD induces a lasting shift to SFC.” We employ a social experiment with three treatments of “control group,” “deliberation” and “FD,” collecting data on organic and nonorganic vegetable consumption with 300 households in Bangladesh over three months. In the control group, households report the consumption. In deliberation, they additionally deliberate among their family members to think of a vision, a mission and a strategy for the consumption. In the FD treatment, participants additionally consider the perspectives of past, current and future generations before deliberating on the same issues. Results indicate that FD affects people to have a sustained increase (decrease) in organic (nonorganic) vegetable consumption as compared to any other treatment, and the effect under FD is approximately twice as much as that under deliberation in magnitude and in each round. Overall, FD demonstrates a great potential for inducing people to make a persistent change to SFC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 102916"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144702728","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 : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-08-16DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102941
Alice R. Kininmonth , Victoria L. Jenneson , Francesca Pontin , Jason C.G. Halford , Alexandra M. Johnstone , Michelle A. Morris , Alison Fildes , the DIO Food Team
Introduction
Legislation in England restricts the placement of high in fat, sugar or salt (HFSS) products in stores and online. This is the first study to investigate shoppers’ perceptions, and self-reported purchasing behaviours following its implementation.
Methods
A sample of 1968 adults, living in England, who were the primary shopper for the household completed online surveys, with oversampling of lower incomes (households earning less than £39,999 annually).
Results
Most purchased products from HFSS-dominated categories at least once/week (92.5 %). Shoppers with children or those living with food insecurity reported purchasing HFSS-dominated products more frequently and reported greater susceptibility to product placement and price-promotion strategies targeted by the current and planned HFSS legislation. The majority of shoppers surveyed were not aware of the HFSS legislation (58.7%), and most did not notice any changes to the shopping environment, either online (79.8%) or in-store (56.1%). Most felt the legislation was a good first step (71.4). However, 90% felt affordability of healthier food was as or more important than legislation of less healthy foods.
Conclusion
While shoppers supported the legislation’s potential to encourage healthier food choices, they emphasised the importance of affordability. Households with children or those living with food insecurity are particularly susceptible to retail promotional strategies. To support these shoppers, future legislation should also consider promoting healthier foods to reduce dietary inequalities.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-08-22DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102937
Raghav Goyal , Michael K Adjemian , William Secor
Accurate supply parameters are essential for policy analysis, especially since they often support taxpayer-funded relief programs costing billions of dollars. This study incorporates a broader dataset than traditional methods and applies modern, straightforward econometric techniques to estimate marketing and supply elasticities for the U.S.’s top crops: corn and soybeans. While rarely examined, marketing elasticities, at 3.27% for corn and 2.86% for soybeans, capture the rate at which producers market harvests based on expected cash-futures basis changes. A 3SLS approach estimates supply elasticities for corn and soybeans at 0.28 (95% CI: 0.09–0.47) and 0.12 (95% CI: 0.007–0.22), respectively; we use these elasticities to show that USDA’s COVID-19 compensation programs underestimated losses to the producers of both commodities.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102919
Amlan Das Gupta , Ashokankur Datta , Ridhima Gupta
According to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, “It is projected that climate change will affect food security by the middle of the 21st century, with the largest numbers of food-insecure people located in South Asia”. Therefore, it is important to understand how higher temperatures impact nutrition. In this paper, we use three rounds of nationally representative consumption data to examine the impact of high temperatures on food consumption in India. We find that the overall effects of temperature on macronutrient intake, food and dietary diversity are small and economically insignificant. The consumption of non-perishable food items such as cereals remains unaffected during hot periods. However, we find significant negative effects on nutrition obtained from perishable food items. For example, a 1 °C increase in mean temperature over a 30-day period leads to a decline of about 2% in protein consumption from meat, fish, and eggs in rural areas. The adverse effects on perishable food consumption are more pronounced among poorer households and those lacking access to refrigeration, in both rural and urban areas. Given the disproportionate burden on low-income households, our findings call for targeted policy responses to safeguard food and nutrition security in the face of climate change.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-07-25DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102918
Kirara Homma , Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam , Masanori Matsuura-Kannari , Bethelhem Legesse Debela
Despite efforts to improve food and nutrient intake in the last decades, child undernutrition remains a challenge, particularly in rural areas of developing countries. Although household labor reallocation after weather shocks is an important ex-post strategy to mitigate weather-shock impacts, a comprehensive understanding of how households adjust their labor and its implications in the context of child health is lacking. We investigate how different forms of labor activity is associated with the impacts of rainfall shock on child nutritional status, using nationally representative panel data from rural households in Bangladesh, in conjunction with monthly precipitation and temperature data for the last three decades. We find that less rainfall during the main cropping season in the previous year worsens nutritional status of children under the age of five years, while less rainfall in the current year increases child nutrition. We also find heterogeneous associations of different types of labor with the identified linkages between rainfall shock and child nutritional status. While maternal off-farm self-employment plays a potential role in mitigating the negative impact of rainfall shortage, maternal on-farm labor may worsen child nutrition under rainfall shocks. We do not find any significant associations for household-level total labor time and other household members’ labor time. Our results therefore underscore the importance of providing sufficient off-farm employment opportunities for mothers and addressing maternal time constraints through targeted policies to cope with extreme weather and improve child nutrition.
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In the 21st century, technological innovation has become a crucial driver of economic transformation. It also contributes to agricultural performance, particularly through its influence on research intensity and labor productivity growth. However, its specific implications for agricultural performance in the ASEAN region remain insufficiently examined. Since the agricultural sector is essential for ensuring food security and sustaining rural livelihoods, understanding the intersection between innovation and agricultural outcomes becomes indispensable. This study explores how technological innovation impacts agricultural performance in the ASEAN region from 2000 to 2022, emphasizing the moderating role of digitalization. Using the Panel-Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE) model alongside various robustness tests, the study identifies several key findings. (1) Technological innovation enhances agricultural performance. (2) Technological innovation improves agricultural performance by increasing agricultural research intensity and labor productivity growth. (3) Digitalization positively moderates the effect of technological innovation on agricultural performance. (4) Digitalization further amplifies the impact of technological innovation on the production of crops, livestock, fisheries, agri-value added, and agri-export. (5) Heterogeneity analysis indicates that ASEAN countries with high levels of economic growth, agricultural reliance, and education experience the most significant benefits from technological innovation in agriculture. Hence, the study offers novel insights for policymakers at both macro and micro levels, advocating for improved regional collaboration, digital infrastructure, research and development, capacity building, and institutional reforms to foster technology-driven agricultural transformation in the ASEAN region.
{"title":"Technological innovation and agricultural performance in the ASEAN region: The role of digitalization","authors":"Ode Htwee Thann , Zhao Yuhuan , Myne Uddin , Sumin Zuo","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102939","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102939","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the 21st century, technological innovation has become a crucial driver of economic transformation. It also contributes to agricultural performance, particularly through its influence on research intensity and labor productivity growth. However, its specific implications for agricultural performance in the ASEAN region remain insufficiently examined. Since the agricultural sector is essential for ensuring food security and sustaining rural livelihoods, understanding the intersection between innovation and agricultural outcomes becomes indispensable. This study explores how technological innovation impacts agricultural performance in the ASEAN region from 2000 to 2022, emphasizing the moderating role of digitalization. Using the Panel-Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE) model alongside various robustness tests, the study identifies several key findings. (1) Technological innovation enhances agricultural performance. (2) Technological innovation improves agricultural performance by increasing agricultural research intensity and labor productivity growth. (3) Digitalization positively moderates the effect of technological innovation on agricultural performance. (4) Digitalization further amplifies the impact of technological innovation on the production of crops, livestock, fisheries, agri-value added, and agri-export. (5) Heterogeneity analysis indicates that ASEAN countries with high levels of economic growth, agricultural reliance, and education experience the most significant benefits from technological innovation in agriculture. Hence, the study offers novel insights for policymakers at both macro and micro levels, advocating for improved regional collaboration, digital infrastructure, research and development, capacity building, and institutional reforms to foster technology-driven agricultural transformation in the ASEAN region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 102939"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144829023","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 : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102927
Ahmet Ekici , Tugce Ozgen Genc , Şule Önsel Ekici
Reducing household food waste (HHFW), one of the major contributors to total food waste, is a critical responsibility shared by food researchers and policymakers. To date, researchers have examined the drivers of HHFW and proposed various recommendations to mitigate it. Although the growing body of literature on HHFW interventions has generated valuable insights, several limitations—such as methodological inconsistencies, narrow scope, missing variables, concerns over reliability, and limited research designs—complicate meaningful comparisons and hinder the aggregation of findings across studies. Moreover, while numerous intervention strategies have been proposed and implemented, their effectiveness often remains underexplored or is assessed within the constraints of these limitations. The Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) methodology presents a unique opportunity for food policy researchers to investigate the effectiveness of food waste prevention activities and interventions. We argue that FCM holds this potential because it offers a consistent analytical foundation, supported by theoretical frameworks and prior findings, through which diverse intervention alternatives can be tested and compared. Accordingly, following the construction of a fuzzy cognitive map of HHFW—based on a comprehensive review of the literature and expert assessment—this paper aims to utilize the FCM to determine and compare the HHFW-reduction capacity of various real-world intervention alternatives. Our findings highlight the strong potential of specific emerging retail formats (e.g., zero-packaging grocery stores) and manufacturing technologies (e.g., intelligent fridges) to reduce HHFW, although both require careful implementation to achieve their intended impact. Commonly employed interventions, such as informational campaigns, may prove ineffective when used in isolation and should therefore be complemented by other types of interventions. Online shopping—an increasingly prevalent food purchasing behavior—can substantially contribute to HHFW, underscoring the need for practitioners to consider the potential negative consequences of algorithm-driven purchasing systems. We provide an in-depth discussion of these findings, examine the study’s limitations, and elaborate on their implications for consumers, producers, distributors, and policymakers.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-04DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102897
Jennifer Clapp , Rachael Vriezen , Amar Laila , Costanza Conti , Line Gordon , Christina Hicks , Nitya Rao
High levels of corporate concentration and power in agrifood supply chains raise important policy concerns because they can affect food systems in adverse ways. In this paper, we argue that increased corporate concentration and power in food systems has the capacity to undermine people’s agency– that is, their capability to make choices and exercise their voice. We explore three dimensions of the relationship between concentrated corporate power and people’s agency in food systems. First, dominant firms within highly concentrated food system segments can exercise market power, which enables them to earn excess profits – often by charging higher prices, suppressing wages, and weakening livelihood opportunities. Second, dominant agrifood firms have the capacity to shape material conditions within food systems – determining prevailing technologies used in food production, working conditions, levels of processing of packaged food items, and food environments – in ways that can affect people’s choices. Third, dominant agrifood firms can exercise political power by actively pursuing strategies to influence food policy and governance processes via lobbying and other more indirect measures, weakening opportunities for broader democratic participation in food systems governance. Given these potential outcomes, more policy attention should be paid to corporate concentration and its implications for agency within food systems.
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