Pub Date : 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102936
Jennifer Clapp , William G. Moseley , Paola Termine , Barbara Burlingame
In 2022, along with colleagues, we proposed a six-dimensional food security framework in a Food Policy viewpoint article that argued for the need to expand the commonly cited four pillar approach (availability, access, utilization and stability) by adding two additional dimensions: agency and sustainability. The proposal was not just for a new conceptual framework for scholarly analysis, but also for its application in policy settings. Over three years later, we are humbled to see widespread uptake of our call to embrace agency and sustainability as dimensions of food security in multiple tyles of policy settings at different scales. This brief policy comment outlines the growing recognition and application of the six-dimensional framework for food security in policy contexts from the global to the local level. We are hopeful that the growing application of this idea will help to make improvements in the global quest to end hunger.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102934
Yurani Arias-Granada , Jonathan Bauchet , Jacob Ricker-Gilbert , Kajal Gulati
Little is known about the adoption of agricultural technologies that enhance unobservable attributes, such as food quality and food safety. Social networks can potentially be a key tool to disseminate information about such technologies, because informal discussions among network members could counter the lack of observability and awareness of the benefits of such technologies. To inform this issue, we conducted a field experiment that included experimental auctions and a lottery to estimate how social networks influence the demand for Aflasafe, a new food safety-enhancing technology, among smallholder farmers in Senegal. Aflasafe is an agricultural input that controls aflatoxins, which are unobservable carcinogenic compounds that contaminate grains and compromise their safety for human consumption. Despite the lack of any food-safety regulations or price incentives in the study area, we found that demand for Aflasafe was high at baseline after farmers were trained on its benefits. The results show that social networks increased demand for Aflasafe among participants who had a lower willingness to pay in the first period. These individuals likely needed the most convincing to adopt the technology. Further, we find suggestive evidence that having an Aflasafe adopter (“lottery winner”) who used the treated groundnut for own consumption and use as future seed in an individual’s network increases their demand. Having an adopter who used the treated groundnut for other purposes in an individual’s network is not associated with any change in an individual’s demand. These findings suggest that smallholder farmers – who are often both producers and consumers of their food – engage in discussions about technologies with unobservable benefits within their agricultural social networks. Thus, it seems possible, at least in the short term, that these networks can be harnessed to increase technology adoption by leveraging farmers’ concern about their health and food safety.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102928
Gerarda Caso, Silvia Sapio, Riccardo Vecchio
Implementing a beneficial policy does not guarantee success; for public interventions to be effective, they must also have public support. While extensive studies have explored the general population’s views on various interventions promoting healthy food consumption, limited attention has been given to the groups that would benefit most from such strategies. This study focuses on low-income citizens, who often face dietary compromises due to financial constraints. Its objective is to assess the support, perceived intrusiveness, and perceived effectiveness of specific interventions designed to (dis)incentivize the consumption of (un)healthy foods. Additionally, it aims to identify the factors influencing the support of such measures among this vulnerable segment. The study employed an online survey, administered to 810 Italian shoppers with low monthly household incomes (below the national median) to evaluate nudge interventions (i.e., nutri-score labeling, salience, checkout prompts, and placements) and traditional policies (i.e., taxation and educational campaigns) aimed at improving food choices. Findings reveal that food labeling and educational campaigns are more widely accepted and perceived as more effective than other nudges, whereas taxation is perceived as the most intrusive policy. Subsequent econometric analyses highlight the crucial role of perceived effectiveness and intrusiveness in determining policy support. Furthermore, personal and behavioral characteristics significantly influence approval, as citizens tend to oppose interventions that seek to restrict established habits. Adapting policies to reflect these variations could enhance their relevance and effectiveness, ultimately improving their impact on public health.
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This paper investigates the effectiveness of cooperative ownership and its enhancement through territorial cooperation by analysing Italian wine firms (2012–2022) using a novel dataset and matching strategies. Results reveal that, when economic performances are properly measured, cooperative ownership generates more economic benefits and can thus become a driver of local development. The effect of cooperating territories goes above and beyond institutional quality, capturing a different measure of firm-level territorial cooperation, not strictly and only mediated by better public institutions. The paper supports the relevance of cooperative ownership for local economies and advocates policies fostering social networks and community-led initiatives.
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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.
{"title":"Nutriscore’s impact on purchase intention for products with geographical indications: a Bayesian causal mediation analysis","authors":"Stranieri Stefanella , Casati Mirta , Soregaroli Claudio , Varacca Alessandro","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102942","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102942","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 102942"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144896750","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 : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102944
Mohammad Riaz Uddin
Child stunting remains a persistent public health challenge in Bangladesh despite substantial socioeconomic progress. This paper investigates the association between household aquaculture engagement, dietary diversity and children’s anthropometric outcomes, specifically height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) and stunting prevalence, utilizing longitudinal data from rural Bangladesh. Our findings demonstrate that households engaged in aquaculture exhibit substantially enhanced food security indicators, including significantly greater consumption of home-produced foods and fish, and higher dietary diversity scores compared to non-aquaculture households. Notably, we identify a significant interaction effect whereby female children in households characterized by both aquaculture engagement and higher levels of women’s empowerment demonstrate significantly higher HAZ scores and reduced stunting risk. These empirical results suggest that the synergistic combination of household aquaculture systems and women’s empowerment represents a critical pathway for enhancing household food security and mitigating child malnutrition—with particularly pronounced benefits for female children—in rural Bangladesh contexts. The findings have substantial implications for integrated intervention strategies targeting both aquaculture development and women’s empowerment in similar low- and middle-income country settings.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 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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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.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 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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