Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102731
Olayinka Aremu, Anna Fabry, Eva-Marie Meemken
Debates on the role of farm size for farm productivity and economic development are longstanding in agricultural and development economics. However, the link between farm size and achieving decent work and full employment—Sustainable Development Goal 8—remains unexplored, despite many African countries facing huge unemployment challenges alongside important changes in farm sizes. This paper addresses this gap by focusing on Nigeria’s labor-intensive tomato sector and using unique primary data from a matched farm-to-worker survey. We analyze the relationship between farm size and both the quantity and quality of jobs, which has never been studied before, employing multivariate regression analysis. Additionally, we account for factors that commonly differentiate larger and smaller farms, including technology use, market arrangement, crop diversification, and the reliance on seasonal versus casual labor. Our findings reveal a trade-off: smaller farms offer more jobs per hectare, while larger farms offer better jobs (i.e., higher wages and some non-monetary benefits). We conclude that neither larger nor smaller farms fully align with all dimensions of decent work and full employment, highlighting the need for greater policy and research focus on the employment quality versus quantity dilemma.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102734
Elza S. Elmira , Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu , Matin Qaim
Malnutrition remains a serious problem. While various nutrition policies exist, these often fail to consider cultural factors. We contribute to the literature on culture and nutrition, focusing on gendered differences in nutritional investment. Using representative panel data from Indonesia covering a period of 21 years, we analyze how ethnicity-based marriage customs are linked to the body mass index (BMI) of men and women. Patrilocal practices are positively associated with male BMI and negatively associated with female BMI, suggesting discrimination against women. Matrilocal practices are positively associated with female BMI when comparing with women in other cultural settings, but not when comparing with men. The practice of bridewealth is positively associated with male and female BMI when comparing to individuals in settings without this cultural practice. Wherever positive associations between marriage customs and BMI are observed, these are largest for those already overweight, whereas the negative association been patrilocality and female BMI is most pronounced among women who are underweight. Our findings suggest that marriage customs may reinforce nutritional inequalities. A better understanding of such links in different cultural settings is important for effective nutritional policies, especially given that different malnutrition problems coexist in many countries.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102733
Wei Yang , Di Fang , Jada M. Thompson , Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.
The escalating effects of climate change make it important to find ways to offset the carbon burden. One way to do so is to reduce beef consumption, since cattle production creates large amounts of greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming and climate change. In this study, we explore US consumers’ perceptions of alternative beef products. Specifically, we test the effects of three types of earmark information on consumers’ valuation of a beef carbon tax related to hamburger meat through two labeled discrete choice experiments. Our results show that earmark information can be effective in reducing the negative impact of an environmental tax on consumers’ willingness to pay for beef products. This study contributes to a better understanding of how consumers would bear environmental taxes for beef and alternative products.
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In many low- and middle-income countries, agri-food supply chains are transforming rapidly. One important feature of this transformation is growth in certain high-value agricultural subsectors, such as horticulture and cut-flowers for export. Growth in high-value agriculture often creates new employment opportunities, especially for women. More employment can lead to higher rural incomes, but the broader implications for social welfare are not yet sufficiently understood. Here, we use survey data from Ethiopia to investigate the effects of women’s employment in floriculture on child nutrition, focusing on children aged 0–5 years. We develop and estimate endogenous switching regressions to account for possible endogeneity. Our results suggest that maternal employment in floriculture negatively affects child height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores (HAZ and WAZ). Exploration of the underlying mechanisms reveals that floriculture employment may influence time allocation, dietary quality, income, and female financial autonomy. Maternal employment is negatively associated with time spent on childcare and consumption of animal-sourced foods.
{"title":"Maternal employment in high-value agriculture and child nutrition: Evidence from the Ethiopian cut-flower industry","authors":"Astewale Bimr Melaku , Matin Qaim , Bethelhem Legesse Debela","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102732","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102732","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In many low- and middle-income countries, agri-food supply chains are transforming rapidly. One important feature of this transformation is growth in certain high-value agricultural subsectors, such as horticulture and cut-flowers for export. Growth in high-value agriculture often creates new employment opportunities, especially for women. More employment can lead to higher rural incomes, but the broader implications for social welfare are not yet sufficiently understood. Here, we use survey data from Ethiopia to investigate the effects of women’s employment in floriculture on child nutrition, focusing on children aged 0–5 years. We develop and estimate endogenous switching regressions to account for possible endogeneity. Our results suggest that maternal employment in floriculture negatively affects child height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores (HAZ and WAZ). Exploration of the underlying mechanisms reveals that floriculture employment may influence time allocation, dietary quality, income, and female financial autonomy. Maternal employment is negatively associated with time spent on childcare and consumption of animal-sourced foods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102732"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142326668","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 : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102726
Hiroki Sasaki, Nobuhiro Ito
This study explores the impact of providing general health-related information and personalized nudges aimed at modifying cognitive biases on enhancing vegetable purchases and consumption. We conducted a four-month natural field experiment and analyzed daily purchase records of 942 households using receipt scanner data. While merely explaining the loss-framed health benefits of vegetables did not significantly alter the overall vegetable purchasing habits, we observed a notable decrease in meat purchases, attributing this to the indirect effects of vegetable information. Additionally, when the status of relative vegetable purchases amount was provided based on personal purchase histories, individuals who initially purchased more vegetables demonstrated an increased buying volume. This effect was more pronounced in households with children than in those without. The nudging interventions had long-term effects beyond the experiment’s duration, possibly driven by an altruistic concern for children’s health within the household. Therefore, while nudges alone are not a complete solution, their ability to effect long-term changes in household purchasing patterns suggests that they can be a valuable addition to policy tools promoting sustainable and healthy food choices, as well as traditional mass-targeted promotion strategies.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102729
Cristiano Franceschinis , Riccardo Scarpa , Mara Thiene
Changing behaviours causing poor health is an ongoing global health challenge that requires developing adequate food policies and strengthening their effectiveness. Policies based on nudging have become increasingly popular internationally, but the literature provides mixed evidence of their effectiveness, with an intense academic debate. This study contributes to the debate by investigating the effect of different nudging techniques (availability enhancement, visibility enhancement and healthy eating calls) via a framed field experiment involving purchases of milk types. Participants were split into different nudging treatment groups and were endowed with a cash amount to purchase any desired quantity of the different products. We modelled observed choices via the multiple discrete–continuous nested extreme value model, which has yet to receive attention for the analysis of nudging effects on food choices. Results show that only the healthy eating call nudge effectively drove participants towards healthier milk choices, while the effect of other nudges is statistically insignificant. We provide simulated demand curves conditional on nudging treatments, which measure the effect of the latter on consumers’ consumption levels of the different milk types available.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102724
Sandro Steinbach
{"title":"Balancing environmental policies and food security goals in the face of shifting U.S. rail transportation regulations","authors":"Sandro Steinbach","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102724","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102724"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312706","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 : 2024-09-22DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102728
Anne G. Timu , Peter Hazell , Sara Savastano
Agricultural projects typically aim to promote the uptake of project components amongst targeted small farm populations to improve their farm productivity and welfare. While this approach can be an important first step towards improving smallholder livelihoods, it ignores alternative and often superior livelihood options that might arise within the rural transformation process, particularly in commercial agriculture and the rural nonfarm economy. We argue that the design of smallholder projects implemented within regions already undergoing a dynamic transformation and/or projects which have significant value chain components, should be broadened to assist smallholders in making successful transitions to their best livelihood options. For such projects, monitoring and evaluation activities should track livelihood transitions as well as the usual assessments of productivity and welfare outcomes. To help operationalize such an approach, we propose a typology of smallholder livelihood strategies that can track transitions over time and illustrate its use with data from the Sustainable Agricultural Production Program (SAPP), an agricultural value chain project in Malawi. Using available household panel data and quasi-experimental econometric approaches, we find that the project helped smallholders transition out of subsistence farming to market-oriented farming and helped already existing market-oriented farmers remain as such. Even though the project did not have any specific components designed to promote off-farm incomes, nevertheless, it facilitated many farm household transitions to off-farm diversified livelihoods, possibly due to spillover benefits generated within the local nonfarm economy. All SAPP facilitated transitions led to increases in household incomes. We conclude with some lessons for designing, monitoring, and the evaluation of future agricultural projects.
{"title":"An approach for assessing whether agricultural projects help smallholders transition to better livelihood strategies: A malawian case study","authors":"Anne G. Timu , Peter Hazell , Sara Savastano","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agricultural projects typically aim to promote the uptake of project components amongst targeted small farm populations to improve their farm productivity and welfare. While this approach can be an important first step towards improving smallholder livelihoods, it ignores alternative and often superior livelihood options that might arise within the rural transformation process, particularly in commercial agriculture and the rural nonfarm economy. We argue that the design of smallholder projects implemented within regions already undergoing a dynamic transformation and/or projects which have significant value chain components, should be broadened to assist smallholders in making successful transitions to their best livelihood options. For such projects, monitoring and evaluation activities should track livelihood transitions as well as the usual assessments of productivity and welfare outcomes. To help operationalize such an approach, we propose a typology of smallholder livelihood strategies that can track transitions over time and illustrate its use with data from the Sustainable Agricultural Production Program (SAPP), an agricultural value chain project in Malawi. Using available household panel data and quasi-experimental econometric approaches, we find that the project helped smallholders transition out of subsistence farming to market-oriented farming and helped already existing market-oriented farmers remain as such. Even though the project did not have any specific components designed to promote off-farm incomes, nevertheless, it facilitated many farm household transitions to off-farm diversified livelihoods, possibly due to spillover benefits generated within the local nonfarm economy. All SAPP facilitated transitions led to increases in household incomes. We conclude with some lessons for designing, monitoring, and the evaluation of future agricultural projects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102728"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919224001398/pdfft?md5=47f2a911b2e2b1dd1b7aa98e77ec3db1&pid=1-s2.0-S0306919224001398-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312707","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 : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102725
Hendrik Bruns , Valeria De Laurentiis , Laura García Herrero , Giulia Listorti
The European Union is committed via legally binding targets to reduce per capita food waste at the retail and consumption stage. This requires realising profound behavioural change in diverse political and cultural contexts. Work of food waste experts systematically analysing implemented reduction interventions revealed important insights and gaps that need to be jointly addressed by scientists, policymakers and practitioners.
{"title":"Behavioural insights to reach European Union consumer food waste reduction targets","authors":"Hendrik Bruns , Valeria De Laurentiis , Laura García Herrero , Giulia Listorti","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102725","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102725","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The European Union is committed via legally binding targets to reduce per capita food waste at the retail and consumption stage. This requires realising profound behavioural change in diverse political and cultural contexts. Work of food waste experts systematically analysing implemented reduction interventions revealed important insights and gaps that need to be jointly addressed by scientists, policymakers and practitioners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 102725"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173866","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 : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102708
Jan Hales , Joya Kemper , Samantha K. White , Ekant Veer
Governments are urged to make significant changes to food policies to reorient food production and consumption to support healthy and sustainable food systems and diets. New Zealand, like many countries, is under pressure to address the deleterious effects of its food system on food security, nutrition, and environmental health to meet global sustainable development goals. We completed a systematic policy review to assess how food policies in New Zealand support the transition to sustainable diets by aligning with sustainable diet principles and whether this is enabled through multisectoral collaboration and policy coherence. We analysed New Zealand’s food policies against a sustainable diet framework, examining if policies are aligned with all dimensions: health and nutrition, environmental, sociocultural, and economic. We found that while sustainability is a priority, the economic, environmental, and sociocultural outcomes dominate policies concerned with food production and trade, with little attention given to nutritional health. We also found that the health impacts are often left out of multisectoral collaboration efforts and that there is a lack of coherence between health, food production, and trade sector policies concerning nutrition. These findings suggest that current policies will likely undermine nutrition-related health goals and hinder New Zealand’s ability to shift to sustainable diets and food systems. Further research is required to understand how food policies influence food producer and consumer behaviours and determine how a more coherent and comprehensive sustainability-oriented policy environment shifts behaviours towards more sustainable diets and food systems.
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